343 studio talks the differences between Locke and Master Chief

 He’s getting his own themed Xbox One next week, his controller is already out and he’ll be staged as the contrasting protagonist in this month’s Halo 5: Guardians as he hunts down the iconic Master Chief. Spartan Locke is staged to come into his own as a character with this newest installment to the series, but how that’s going to fold out is a different matter.

Executive producer Kiki Wolfkill (possibly the greatest name ever assigned a human being) elaborates on exactly this topic, “You look at Chief, who is sort of conscripted as a child and became a Spartan not necessarily by choice, and then there’s Locke, who chose to be that kind of person – those contrasts are really interesting.”

Significantly, Locke is a member of the Office of Naval Intelligence and ”ONI is a kind of shadow organisation that has its finger on a lot of the events that impact the UNSC and ultimately, the galaxy. What would it mean to take someone from that organisation and have them make the transition to Spartan-dom?" posits studio head Josh Holmes in the latest edition of the official Xbox Magazine.

The need to define Locke as something other than just another cookie cutter in the vein of John-117 is going to be a paramount one if 343 hopes to maintain momentum with the Halo franchise so it will be interesting to see how these two personalities not only interact, but the back story that produces them.

Halo 5: Guardians arrives on Xbox One October 27th.