User blog comment:Matt-256/Overuse of American names/@comment-1210220-20101030173251

I agree, there is not really much diversity in the Halo franchise, other than a few characters. I'm trying to make the names of my characters more diverse myself. Being English, I was glad to see that Jorge-052 had a different accent to everyone else, I had only found one marine (In Halo 3 I belive) with an English accent. In ODST, which is set in the African city of New Mombassa, I found very few people with different accents/ethnicities. I think the only person with an African accent was Dr. Endesha (who has the same voice actor as Jorge), and the NMPD officer, Mike, who had a South African accent. Both of these were in the audio files. However, throughout the game most of the NMPD officers had either an American or South African accent.

It would be nice to see more diversity in future games, Noble Team in Reach was a good start.