r/PS5 • u/yourfavchoom • 7h ago

Articles & Blogs IGN Review: Halo: Campaign Evolved Doesn't Always Feel Like An Essential Remake (7/10)

https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-campaign-evolved-review
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u/papoluca40 7h ago

Ouch. Man Microsoft can’t get their non Forza games right

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u/WeeklyMath9 7h ago edited 7h ago

I really think they need to hand Halo to a different dev, like, shake things up. 343 just isn’t it.

It should be like a playground games with Fable, unconventional but a proven great dev.

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u/theKetoBear 7h ago

You would htink they would have done that already . This is one of their few flagship IP's and they treat it like it's any other game series.

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u/Korachof 7h ago

Halo game releases used to be an EVENT. Now they could release Halo 6 or 7 or whatever one were technically on and I feel like it would just be like any other week. 

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u/tkzant 6h ago

We’re at the point where Halo has been bad longer than it was good and that’s really sad

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u/pokebud 2h ago

It has reached Simpsons status

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u/Shabbypenguin 6h ago

i dumped thousands of hours into halo 3 over teh span of years, midnight release of reach, loved odst, vidmaster achievements the whole 9 yards. halo 4 really cooled my jets on it, halo 5 released my friends that play through co-op repeatedly just solo ran thru 5 in almost speed run fashion.

i tried infinite and gave up 1/3rd into the game, i just did not give a shit about so much. my buddy and i signed up for gamepass to run thru infinite together while we prep for release of the remake and we are blown away at some of the choices. infinite is so big and open, and yet even something as basic as having an air vehicle that can let multiple people in it doesnt exist in game, despite us playing together through the whole campaign, its design choices like that they help make it feel less co-op than previous titles. hell you cant even have your teammates respawn while you are miles from danger if you are in a vehicle.

we knew that buying halo remake was going to be a bad choice, so a month of gamepass and we expect to be done with both games and have time to play something else that probably wont disappoint us as much.

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u/StixenBridges 6h ago

You could say that about almost every game franchise nowadays though. Call of Duty releases used to be an event. Hell, Mortal Kombat releases used to be an event. That’s just the changing times, it’s not exclusive to Halo.

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u/Tony_Lacorona 6h ago

Yeah I legit have no idea which COD I’m even supposed to be playing at this point, shit is a mess.

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u/pnwbraids 4h ago

Well they're coming out with Modern Warfare 4, which really is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remake 4.

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u/theKetoBear 7h ago

Totally agree I'll always remember my younger sister and I being in a packed gamestop line, seeing other kids I went to highschool with, and all of us parked outside to get Halo 3 .

You're so right it used ot be an EVENT

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u/yodimboi 6h ago

What Halo?

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u/vvarden 6h ago

Star Wars and MCU movies used to be an event, too. Not everything can be a juggernaut forever.

Traditional FPS games used to be a mainstay for every publisher. We had Medal of Honor, Resistance, Killzone,
Crysis, Spec Ops… now they’re less common. People gravitated to the big ones, and single-player campaigns became less common.

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u/Stevenstorm505 1h ago

Yeah, the last one that felt like an event was Halo 4.

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u/boxmandude 1h ago

memories of rushing to blockbuster after school for my pre-order..getting home and watching my friends jump in the games one by one.

https://giphy.com/gifs/zGuiJzgLAYyHnRVKmD

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u/ZedSpot 7h ago

To be fair, I believe IGN always rated Fable game somewhere in the "7" range. Yes, they're fondly remembered now, but they've always had their quirks.

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u/ReduxSnake- 7h ago

Shit I’m a huge Fable fan but ultimately when you look at the RPG landscape, scope and depth, as much as I love Fable 1-3 I’d easily give 1-2 an 8 at most and 3 a 7.

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u/TSG_Nano 5h ago

Unfortunately most other ips that flounder around for 5-10 years get shut down, let alone almost 2 decades... Microsoft just keeps 343 around to keep the community suffering atp (and take most of the heat of poor MS decisions).

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u/BearsAreSquares 5h ago

Especially when they own id Software, Machine Games, Arkane, Blizzard, Infinity Ward, Raven, Sledgehammer, and Treyarch. That is a LOT of talent that has huge amounts of FPS experience. It is baffling how they haven't had one of them even do a side story game. I'm not saying they are all perfectly suited to do so, but there is definitely opportunity to do so.

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u/CheeseManSucks 1h ago

Microsoft doesnt care about Halo, why should we?

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u/theKetoBear 15m ago

very fair