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The Halo 5: Guardians box art has been revealed - what's going on with it?

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Team Players

Team Players

Here's a closer look at the Spartan fireteam taking up residence in Agent Locke's surprisingly ornate chest cavity - led by none other than poster-mate, Master Chief. The official Xbox news story says these teams "play a crucial role in the showdown between the Master Chief and Spartan Locke".

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Player Team?

Player Team?

And here's Locke's fireteam, an altogether sleeker-looking bunch. There's no word on whether these particular groups will be campaign characters, a la Halo: Reach, but there's definitely an air of inter-Spartan conflict going on.

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Big Bad

Big Bad

Completing what seems to be the game's hate triangle is the colossal desert-robot-thing from the original Halo 5 reveal trailer. It bears the anti-gravity hallmarks of Forerunner technology, but it's flanked by Covenant Banshees.

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Joe first fell in love with games when a copy of The Lion King on SNES became his stepfather in 1994. When the cartridge left his mother in 2001, he turned to his priest - a limited edition crystal Xbox - for guidance. And now he's here.

You know what's better than seeing the box art for a game you're looking forward to? Seeing an animated poster of a wide version of said box art. And would you credit it, here's one for Halo 5: Guardians now!

Continuing the well-established "Master Chief vs. Spartan Locke" theme, the most interesting element is the addition of two four-person fireteams to the mix, each led by one of the game's main characters.

Microsoft describes them as "new Spartans", implying some kind of character to them - I'd wager there's a fair chance we'll see Halo follow Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's example by including 4-player co-op in its campaign this time around.

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