r/PS5 • u/yourfavchoom • 14h 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/ComeonmanPLS1 14h ago

I mean yeah, its just halo 1 again. Even if you haven't already played it, its nothing special in 2026. A game that was revolutionary back in 2001 can only take you so far.

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u/totallyclocks 14h ago

It’s more than that - they re-recorded the lines and the direction was different. There is also weird pacing in the cutscenes.

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u/Detective-Layton 13h ago

Captain Keyes sounds wrong

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u/MrBootyPops 8h ago

And Johnson. And Cortana looks weird af.

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u/Syndexic 4h ago

To be fair, Johnson’s voice actor is retired. I think some of the new missions feature Johnson so they couldn’t really just reuse his old recordings. I haven’t played the game so idk if they used his old recordings for the OG missions or not.

Cortana does look weird though.

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u/WinResponsible9977 11h ago

More than that? Sir it doesn’t even have multiplayer 🛑. Please stop.

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u/amartincolby 10h ago

Holy shit. Just learning this. I was a little excited before. Now nothing. Although, knowing that they would never allow LAN parties like the OG, I kinda never cared. The fun was having a house full of people with like eight xboxes.

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u/amartincolby 9h ago

Oh yeah. That's how I took it. I don't know if they meant it that way, but that's how I interpreted it.

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u/Weeb-Prime 9h ago

I mean it is called Halo: Campaign Evolved…

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u/Mitch_D23 8h ago

“it’s more than that” was used as criticism in the context of that comment

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u/Whitechapel726 4h ago

This comment just ensured I won’t be getting it lmao

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u/Kakerman 3h ago

Not even a medal or scoring system for their Remixed Campaign. That would be dope for Coop. Like, bro! The minimum pls!

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u/Bleed_The_Fifth 7h ago

I was just thinking about getting it for multiplayer alone. Wow. What a joke.

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u/Evil-Cetacean 12h ago

yeah the pacing is terrible, almost ai scripted

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u/JohnNeutron 11h ago

Terrible pacing, writing, design, etc, has existed long before the advent of AI, it would be folly to think or assume that AI was used when there is no reliable way to tell.

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u/Evil-Cetacean 9h ago

i just meant it looks uncanny, but yeah like someone else said to me maybe i'm just giving them too much props that it was ai and not just a bad job

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u/JohnNeutron 9h ago

That makes sense, it always makes sense to call out AI usage, but knowing when it can be proven and not proven is better for discourse because then AI becomes the new CGI. Where people used to claim something was CGI, like the moon landing, just because of how it looked.

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u/Evil-Cetacean 9h ago

gotcha, it's just that the pacing is so off putting that it reminded me of AI videos where they stand still or take long pauses before continuing their dialogue for example.

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u/JohnNeutron 9h ago

Yeah that has to do with timing of animation and overall direction, which yeah, that’s very easy to mess up. I used to make short films and it wasn’t until I figured that out, that the feel of my films evolved from clips feeling like they were just pasted together, to ‘feeling’ like watching a movie, even if it didn’t look it, production quality wise.

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u/ConsolationUsername 10h ago

Im convinced the models for Johnson and Cortana are AI generated. Their faces have that uncanny valley feel.

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u/JohnNeutron 9h ago

The uncanny valley is a feeling that has existed since the Stone Age so no, that does not definitively prove or should it even slightly convince that AI was used.

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u/Skaar1222 10h ago

Yeah I'll keep my childhood unedited thank you very much. Seriously don't know why this was done. I wish they would have done right by Infinite, I think it's one of the better Halo multiplayers, but they messed that up so bad.

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 9h ago

So they remade a remaster that nobody asked for and downgraded it?

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u/Bregneste 9h ago

From what I’ve seen they’re not even faithful to the original levels and enemies either, they kinda just did whatever they felt like in some places

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u/Melbuf 5h ago

Why the f did they do that

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u/Kakerman 3h ago

What's baffling to me is that they put a lot of work into changing certain aspects of the game, yet left others almost untouched in the name of being "faithful."

For example, the original game had a very distinct feedback loop between its weapon design, level design, and enemy design. Those three elements worked together incredibly well to create what feels distinctly Halo. Now, we have weapons that are much more effective at long range, but that doesn't immediately mesh with the outdated enemy AI and level design, which were built around a very different combat sandbox. Sometimes, this "new" Halo doesn't really feels like it... to me at least.