This is the face of Halo 5's Agent Locke

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I don’t even know where the Uncanny Valley is anymore. It used to be so simple - you’d look at that terrible Final Fantasy movie and go “they look a bit… off, right?”. Nowadays, our new video game characters are being revealed by way of real people’s faces, like some bizarre genetic advertising. Take Agent Locke, Halo 5: Guardians’ mysterious new Spartan character, who we now know looks like “The Good Wife” actor Mike Colter. Because it is him. Sort of.

After an accidental post by Variety (as picked up by VG27/7), we’ve seen our first image of Colter - in his dressed-down Spartan gear - as he’ll appear in narrative-bridging, Ridley Scott-produced TV series (and Master Chief Collection pack-in) Halo: Nightfall. Whether we’ll be seeing him unhelmeted in the game is another matter, but now we’ll just know what he’s hiding under there.

It seems we’ll be seeing even more of both Nightfall and the Master Chief Collection this week, at least if two Comic-Con panels dedicated to them are anything to go by.

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Locke is described as “a pivotal new character in the Halo universe, who plays a key role in Halo 5: Guardians”. The photos below were published on Halo Waypoint to promote the upcoming series.

Taking place between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians, this is an origin story that will lend insight and understanding into the character he becomes in Halo 5: Guardians.

“When I first heard of the project it was presented as a film that would then later be edited into chapters, so in almost every way it is a film. The only difference is that it will be released in segments,” Colter told Variety.

Colter said his favourite scene so far is an action sequence with lots of special effects.

Halo: Nightfall is a live action series directed by Ridley Scott, which will debut with the Halo: The Master Chief Collection in November.