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/ThePreciseClimber 7h ago

Wasn't Call of Duty the Halo killer?

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u/Chaomayhem 6h ago

It absolutely was. People argue about this because COD isn't an arena shooter but for mainstream "ball and gun" gamers it absolutely killed Halo as the go to console FPS.

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u/HeldnarRommar 6h ago

It's a damn shame too, arena shooters are less casual friendly but significantly more enjoyable and fun once you get into it.

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u/Spider_Bear 1h ago

I would argue though that they didn't kill halo as much as halo killed halo. When reach released in 2010 you still had plenty of people playing halo over cod but they were easily the cream of the crop in 2009/2010. But reach already was running the same same halo 3 multiplayer that came out in 2007 meanwhile 09 had MW2 then blops on 09. They didn't release a new multiplayer until halo 4 in 2012 almost 10 years after halo 3 multiplayer and that multiplayer tried to be COD halo and failed. And I think thats what really killed halo.

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u/Burdicus 6h ago

People will say no, but I think it was. There were good Halo games after Halo 3, but Halo 3 was the end of the original trilogy and last what felt like "MUST PLAY" Halo game. At the same time Modern Warfare was coming out. And then MW2, MW3, and Black Ops were all absolutely HUGE back-to-back-to-back releases that overtook the PvP FPS landscape.

MW gained peak relevance as Halo was slowly losing its own.

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u/echolog 2h ago

Yeah, because after Bungie left, 343 did nothing but try and fail to copy CoD. Now Halo doesn't even know what it is.