Mike Colter No Longer Voicing Locke in Halo 5: Guardians

[VinWarrior]

Mike Colter, the previous voice and face of Agent Locke, will no longer be providing his vocal skills for the role, but will retain the image.

 

Most people were not impressed with Agent Locke's voice in the Halo 2: Anniversary cutscenes, and it seems 343 Industries took notice of this, and have removed him from a vocal role. This comes from Ike Amadi's Twitter.com and his IMDB.com page, where he has confirmed that he will be doing the voice for Agent Locke, but Mike Colter will still be the physical representation. Rooster Teeth also allegedly live streamed an interview with Ike Amadi, where he talked about his new role. While 343 themselves have not been vocal on the change, multiple sources such as the ones above have confirmed that the famed video game voice actor will be taking Mike's place. Ike Amadi is known for his roles as Javik in Mass Effect 3 and miscellaneous roles in other games such as Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. 

 

 

All images and information are sourced from IMDB and Twitter, as well as Rooster Teeth.

 

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[rrhuntington]

Sooo... Was he the one that did the voice acting for E3,  or have we never heard this guy before?

 

Ok so I guess they did for All Hail as well. If that's the case I like the small amount we've seen so far. Must be able to mimic Colter's voice pretty well cause the only difference I felt when watching All Hail and E3 was emotion. A lot of people said they were not pleased with how wooden he sounded in the H2A cutscenes.

Edited June 19, 2015 by rrhuntington

[Axilus Prime]

If his actor's being changed, I hope Colter wasn't the one who did All Hail, because the acting there was amazing.

[Composite Armour]

His sacrifice will be honoured in the coming empire.

[rrhuntington]

If his actor's being changed, I hope Colter wasn't the one who did All Hail, because the acting there was amazing.

 

Ike Amadi (The New Voice) Did all Hail.

[Axilus Prime]

Ike Amadi (The New Voice) Did all Hail.

Oh, that's good. Nothing to worry about then.

[Drizzy_Dan]

Wow I wasn't sure how I felt about this until I read the replies saying Ike Amadi did All Hail. I'm sorry Mike Colter's voice isn't in the final cut but Ike Amadi has the edge in my opinion. Glad they're keeping Colter's likeness for the character.

 

Great article Kenway

[Caboose The Ace]

Wow, now this is 343/MS just going out their way to please Halo fans.
 
I salute you guys
 
Besides lets face, the all Hail trailer was **** awesome and it was because of that amazing voice acting, it was brilliant. Much better than the previous voice actors wooden performance in the terminals.
 
Lets take a moment to relish in this voice acting https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CT3VIFnryFc

Edited June 19, 2015 by Caboose The Ace

[Buns]

This is great they listened to feedback but its so..... weird?

 

 

I feel bad for the guy. He seemed happy to be doing Agent Locke in interviews and its kind of insulting to say "Halo fans dont like you so scrap all that work you did we're getting someone else" just wow.

 

All Hail was amazing though and still sounded like Locke so I guess this is a fine change. 

[Unease Peanut]

Wait the "all hail" was a different voice actor?!

 

I don't know how to feel about this. He's probably been working on this for months and now he gets sacked because the people didn't like his voice acting. I know I'd feel like doodoo...

Still, the "all hail" voice acting was great.