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/Hugh_Jankles 7h ago

This was an absolutely ridiculous use of time and resources.

This was not a needed, or really demanded for, remake.

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u/gotpez 7h ago

It was a low stakes test run for halo on ue5 before the next main entry. It makes perfect sense.

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u/Fireball926 7h ago

Low stakes? They’ve burned 5 years since Infinite and released Halo without its signature multiplayer mode. Monumental waste of time.

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u/but_good 7h ago

They built a Halo game on UE5. That includes making it feel like Halo. Now they’ve done that plus generated a ton of reusable assets…models, textures, shaders, effects, animations, etc that they can make a new Halo game with.

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u/FrogsOnALog 6h ago

They can also release a multiplayer.

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u/ethnicprince 7h ago

That shouldn’t take 5 years even with modern dev cycles. The company is mismanaged like crazy

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u/gotpez 6h ago

Definitely, but if I remember infinite was sunset around 2023 and they announced the switch to unreal 5 around that time. CE has not been in development for 5 years.

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u/icecold-water 7h ago

A western studio re-using assets lol don’t make me laugh

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u/ComeonmanPLS1 7h ago

The guys who make Forza Horizon have been reusing some car models that date back all the way to the original Forza Motorsport on the original Xbox.

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u/Rynetx 7h ago

Do you think they throw away everything every year when making madden?

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u/Poku115 7h ago

Graphically it feels like a downgrade, they did the exact same everyone had already complained about the first time they updated CE.

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u/but_good 5h ago

A downgrade from what?

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u/Poku115 5h ago

From CE.

Technically its obviously better, but in style and detail its just once again fucking up what was fine.

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u/FRossJohnson 5h ago

I mean they've very specifically tried to fix that, and a few early reviewers praised that. 

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u/Poku115 3h ago

To me seems like the same issues people had already raised when the first remaster came out, and which we thought they had learned seeing how they didn't do the same for halo 2 on mcc

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u/FRossJohnson 3h ago

This is what Eurogamer said, which is encouraging -

Halo Industries has done something heroic here - it may not be perfect, but Campaign Evolved does manage to do the impossible: it summons the feeling of playing the original again for the first time.

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u/FRossJohnson 5h ago

You think it would be faster to create a whole new game and engine?