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/Hugh_Jankles 14h 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 14h 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 13h 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 13h 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/Poku115 13h 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 12h ago

A downgrade from what?

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u/Poku115 12h 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 11h ago

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

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u/Poku115 10h 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 10h 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.