Halo: Campaign Evolved

EDIT: I have never posted a review before, but for the love I have for this franchise, it just felt like I needed to say something. TLDR: Steer clear, just play MCC with the Ruby's Halo: RELOADED mod and you'll get most of the experience that this has to offer without all the brain trauma. I would have accepted this game is it was maybe 30$ and as far as I can see, all you're realistically getting is a shiny coat of paint (and boy is it shiny... people with astigmatisms watch out), a retuned sandbox, layout changes to the missions and "quality of life and modern gaming feature". I would be very hard pressed to say that this game has done anything particularly well that aren't all pieces that were taken from every other Bungie game. Between what changes were made with the original campaign and the absolute joke that are the 3 new bonus mission: is that this game looks gorgeous, from a pure fidelity perspective. Generic, sci-fi game, but gorgeous. However, like sprint, like QoL, they aren't what make games fun and enjoyable. I'm also not convinced there's a good argument to be made that any of the Halo Studios games look better than Halo 3, short of the lack of polygons and dated textures, Halo 3 absolutely blows this game out of the water, but I guess, more eye candy? Line dialogue delivery is often very awkward, has no weight to it, and worse than the original delivery. In the bonus missions, most of it utterly unbearable, cutscenes seem poorly acted, constant audio desyncing issues, terrible scripting (both the voice acting and the programming kind), and truly cements that 343 (erm, acktually, halo studios), has no idea with these characters. Soundtracks are from previous games are recycled and queued in in such inappropriate and bizarre moment, repetitively looping in obnoxious and infuriating ways, weapons feel anemic and a far cry of the crisp refinement that we saw over years of Bungie games, weird animation locks, reused assets from previous Bungie titles and worse AI. The best way I can describe it is it all just feels like a terribly put together kit bash of someone else's ideas forced into UE5 tacked on with some "modern features". But hey the water looks good. I guess. There are pockets of goodness in this remake but so much of it marred by the fact that you didn't do most of the work. You copied someone else's homework, used different ink, different paper, replaced some words by looking up synonyms in a thesaurus, rubber stamping it and called it yours. This game is a hollow shell of the what it's attempting to remake and is a worse version of it in almost every way, made by a team that has no idea what their doing with the IP and will continue to forever drive this franchise into the ground until there is nothing left of it but dust and echoes. I was really hoping there was going to be something here, literally anything, but all I am left with is apathy and absolutely no hope for the future of this franchise. The only reason why I will be continuing to play this game is almost certainly some form of Stockholm syndrome and a compulsion to 100% the achievements. Also the MCC MP achievements are a drag send help please.

Buggy, crashes disconnects

Prequal mission bad, game run bad on 50 series card, voice acting bad, gameplay changes decent. MCC less money and have 6 games. Just play MCC

Enjoy re-logging into Microsoft EVERY TIME you go to play the game! At least thats the case for me. So annoying. Also some of the cut scenes are blurry and AI junky. Clearly relying on AI to make this happen, and not doing it well. At some moments its fun and feels like Halo again. Great graphics but thats not enough to make me stop raging over having to log into microsoft EVERY TIME!!!! Please fix this. Also no local co-op play, very disappointing. A few times now the frame gen or something gets really screwy and the input lag is so terrible the game is unplayable. Lots to be upset about and not enough pretty graphics to make up for it. Feels like are really cheap AI remake for the money. Sad...

Halo: Campaign Devolved

Preface: Go get Halo: Master Chief Collection and play this campaign there if you're thinking of buying this. Do not buy this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The only thing it has is nostalgia. The engine sucks. The game is horribly desynced online. Enemies literally just disappear and rubber band around. The consistency of enemy health and their damage doesn't seem to be there. Like, why does a flood brute take 3 rockets to kill but they also take 8 shotgun shells to the face and 3 rockets to kill? In a lot of cases, when fighting the flood especially, shotgun shots go straight through them doing nothing. The sentinels are obviously bugged doing way more damage than intended without even showing them shooting a beam at you. Idk how many times sentinels were looking away from me and I'd come out of cover to immediately start taking damage like they're shooting a laser at me. I mean, one time I had just applied an over shield, came out of cover by jumping and was dead before I hit the ground. The Warthogs float and slide across the ground much more than they ever have. The inputs have delay when driving the warthog. Idk if it's the newer graphic engines devs are using but games just feel like clunky ♥♥♥♥ nowadays. A lot of times I don't have a frame of reference to compare it to so It's harder to notice, but I played the original 3 Halo games many times, none of them felt like this. I don't think they bothered testing this for playability on Legendary, and I firmly believe if you just go play the original Halo CE you'll enjoy it more than this, if you can get past the graphics, I swear the older games are worth it. I've played plenty of wonky unfinished games and very seldom do they try to charge $50 for them, and I get way more playtime so it's fine. This is like 8 hours of mediocre gameplay for $50.... You'll have more fun playing any of the original 3 Halo campaigns, so like 90% of the world, they're making slop to fleece people. Capitalism is ruining everything. 3/10

A game that tries to wear the skin of Halo, tries to look like, sound like, play like, and feel like Halo, yet manages to fail miserably at everything it does. I get 40fps playing at native 1440p, and need to turn it to Quality to get a stable frame rate. Also, Kornman00 was the Digsite leaker (you ought to stop leaking HW:1 & 2 source code Sean you'll get in trouble, you silly little sausage).

Ok si vraiment si vous voulez de la nostalgie. Le jeu est asses bon, certes, mais il à des défauts difficilement pardonnables pour cette licence, ce prix et notre époque : - VF tantôt bonne tantôt naze, parfois des passages très mauvais qui ressemble à de l'IA, en particulier sur certaines prononciations. Pourtant, ya pas bcp de dialogues... - Les dialogues justement, ils aurait du etres plus enrichis. - 60€ pour un jeu ou la campagne dure 10h, c'etait OK pour un jeu révolutionnaire en 2001. Mais pas en 2026...Après la fin de l'histoire, on à l'impression d'avoir brulé 20/30 balles pour une refonte graphique et design. - L'histoire aurait pu restée la même tout en etant enrichie et allongée...Pourquoi ne pas l'avoir fait (et justifier ainsi le prix) ? Notamment en permettant des retours à la surface en plein jour sur Halo, car ce sont CES missions en "monde ouvert", de jour, qui permettent de profiter pleinement de cet univers et du Halo. Sans dénigrer les phases en intérieur bien entendue. - Le level design mis à jour est superbe, mais sont architecure globale souffre et sa redondance est palpable. Il aurait du etre mis à jours également même si je comprend qu'il faillait, pour ce titre, rester dans la forge du premier Halo. Un exercice pas facile à équilibrer je le comprend. - Les IA sont nazes. On dirait qu'elles sont d'époque. - Les animations des IA sont pas top, mais ca va surement en partie avec l'IA qui ne sais pas se déplacer. - Le jeu est très beau, mais tout n'est pas forcément bien fait et ne rend pas tjr bien. - On aurait aimé un mode de rendu hardware du raytracing de l'UE5 pour les grosses configuration, qui est plus complet, précis et beau que le rendu software. Du moins pouvoir faire le choix.

Time to softly retire 343 studios.