This is Who You’ll Really Be Playing in Halo 5

<p>Contrary to popular rumors circulating the Internet&comma; Halo&&num;8217&semi;s favorite son won&&num;8217&semi;t be hanging up his helmet as soon as was speculated&period; Agent Locke will be a primary character in <em>Halo 5&colon; Guardians<&sol;em>&comma; Master Chief remains the main protagonist&comma; 343 Industries franchise development director Frank O&&num;8217&semi;Connor confirmed on NeoGAF&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&&num;8220&semi;&&num;8216&semi;A&&num;8217&semi; primary character&comma; Chief is the main character and hero&comma;”<&sol;strong> O&&num;8217&semi;Connor wrote in response to theories that Chief wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be the main protagonist&period; He further sought to silence theories that the developer is going to <strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;test the waters to see if they can retire Master Chief&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Originally triggered by a recent X-One Magazine interview with actor Mike Colter&comma; the rumors of Master Chief&&num;8217&semi;s demise were spurred by the actor&&num;8217&semi;s comments suggesting that his character of Agent Locke will be the main hero who finishes the proverbial fight in <em>Halo 5&colon; Guardians<&sol;em>&comma; and not Chief&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><em>&&num;8220&semi;Yeah&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m a playable character in Halo 5&period; Once Halo&colon; The Master Chief Collection is released&comma; and then Halo 5 comes out shortly thereafter&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re basically going to be playing a game with me as the primary character&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ll have some cool weaponry&comma; and some cool abilities&comma; because by that time I&&num;8217&semi;ll be a Spa<&sol;em>rtan IV&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Locke will be a prominent character in television adaptation series of <em>Halo&colon; Nightfall <&sol;em>on Xbox One for Xbox Live&period; The Ridley Scott-produced <em>Nightfall<&sol;em> bridges the gap between <em>Halo 4<&sol;em> and <em>5 <&sol;em>and provides new details into Locke&&num;8217&semi;s character and his own place in the Halo universe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"Iw2oqtZoc8s" title&equals;"Halo&colon; Nightfall First Look"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;Iw2oqtZoc8s"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;Iw2oqtZoc8s&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Halo&colon; Nightfall First Look"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nightfall will beg packaged with <em>Halo&colon; The Master Chief Collection<&sol;em> when it launches <strong>Nov&period; 11th<&sol;strong>&period; <em>Halo 5&colon; Guardians<&sol;em>&comma; meanwhile&comma; is scheduled for release in <strong>2015<&sol;strong> and&comma; judging from Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s recent reports&comma; only for Xbox One with no PC release planned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;jbgnews&period;com&sol;2014&sol;10&sol;343-confirms-master-chief-as-halo-5s-main-character&sol;341615&period;html">JBG News<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;neogaf&period;com&sol;forum&sol;showpost&period;php&quest;p&equals;133152233&amp&semi;postcount&equals;24">NeoGAF<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;