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The Armor Lock in Reach is not the same one that Chief used in Halo 3. Reach's Armor Lock was an add on, like all the other Armor Abilities, to the Mark V armor, they were meant to be interchangeable features. Now the Sprint in Reach, it's probably just supposed to be normal sprinting when you use it, as the NPC members of Noble Team all have Armor Lock and can still sprint. However the Sprint AA is different than normal sprinting, which a Spartan can do normally, the Sprint AA overloads the safety feature of the Mjolner Armor and allows to the Spartan to really push themselves and reach a speed they normally couldn't without the AA.
Back to AL, since it is not the same as thing as merely locking the joints to the armor, like Chief did in Halo 3, or Red Team did in First Strike, or even Jorge and Six locking the joints to their armor when their Falcon crashes in ToTS. So yes, Armor Lock does do exactly what it does in game play, well as exact every other gameplay feature is.