Halo: Campaign Evolved

The game is good but not great. ✅ Is it an enjoyable Halo game where you fight aliens and engage in cool battles that you've done before in the past? Yes it is. It has everything in a Halo game you've seen before but just the campaign and in Unreal Engine. You may or may not like that look for it but the game looks really good a certain points in the remake. The game also includes all of the weapons from the original game plus some that are sensible additions. You don't see many guns outside of the original arsenal in the main campaign unless its campaign remix or bonus missions. There are also slight changes to levels but nothing too drastic where you'll be questioning where or what you're doing if you remember them from the original. ❌ Honestly, it is a GOOD game and I do understand people's criticisms of it as someone who has played Halo 1 many times throughout my life. I believe the only criticism I truly have for this game is really the performance or artistic choices. Not to specify but I'll just say there are moments where in the original game cutscenes or story moments just slap and it just falls really short in this remake for no reason at all. I also didn't enjoy swapping from the original health system. 👌Mostly I enjoyed the gameplay and not so much the cutscenes/acting and campaign remix makes it fun to go through again. If the creative direction or gameplay changes bother you then classic Halo isn't here but in MCC next door (or if you have the OG one go for that). This remake blends a lot of elements from throughout the franchise that works out for the most part but I'd say to pick it up for a $30 or less purchase and don't be like me unless you think it's really worth it.

This game is a terrible janky mirror image of a great game. It's only positive is that it looks nice. They made it clunky for no reason. Large delays when switching weapons or using melee before you can fire. Enemy melee attacks sometimes don't even have animations and will just kill you from ten feet away. The starting extra missions are just nothing. They read like fanfiction or ai generated slop. They added in extra dialogue where there didn't need to be and it most of the time just made things corny. Me and my friends had more fun reading funny/interesting sounding names in the end credits. TLDR Don't get it even on sale unless major changes are made and even then not at full price. Wait for a steep sale.

Buy this when it's on sale for 10-20$ beyond that, just stick to the MCC port. In game this version LOOKS nice but just about every other aspect falls short of the original. In the future when I feel like replaying the 1st game this wont be what comes to mind.

They've learned absolutely nothing from the last 14 years. Microsoft is entirely to blame, with their genius system of hiring contractors and having the most braindead people on the planet in management. It was no surprise this was going to be negatively received by Halo fans. This game is simply an asset flip. It has reused Halo Infinite models for weapons, reused animations from Halo 5 and Halo Reach, and the AI behavior is straight up copied from Halo Reach. Like 1 for 1. The sound design is terrible to boot. The only good new sounds I think are the remixed assault rifle? Otherwise I have no idea who greenlit the most generic, flat sounding weapon sounds of all time. Of course, the environments look good, but that's the only thing UE5 games have going for them anyway. As with any UE5 game, they've forsaken identity and style for "realism." It's getting old. If you've played Halo Reach's campaign as much as other Halo fans have, you'll basically have all the AI behavior memorized and it's not fun or unique to fight or play around. This game is built on Halo Reach, and they took the laziest, most worthless approach to a new game yet in this franchise. Marines are worthless. They don't follow the player. Elites still have their 3 frame insta-kill melee animation. I think Hunters are the only ones with more aggressive AI differing from Halo Reach? Either way they have no self preservation and will straight up just shoot the ground in front of them, making them unfair and frustrating to fight. I'm a die-hard Halo fan. I want so badly to love this game and the franchise, and it's just been beaten out of me. I can't even bring myself to finish the main campaign, let alone the God awful prequel missions. 3 missions, an hour long each, with two of them just being "aimlessly clear through hallways until you get to big room. Wave defense, then aimlessly clear through hallways with absolutely no objective or flair to make it worth doing. Repeat. They're entirely forgettable and a flat out worthless addition to this game. I'm not even going to talk about over-monetized skins in a single player campaign. If you're looking for a great fresh take on a Halo CE campaign, I can recommend two phenomenal mods: one for Steam MCC, "Havoc Mod" on the workshop. And two, "SPV3" for Halo Custom Edition. (I think you can download it using MCC Combat Evolved but it's not on workshop.) This game isn't worth your time let alone your money. Pirate it if you so badly want to experience this nightmare and kicking-of the long dead, rotten, desiccated horse that is the Halo franchise.

Well I have done at least 3 different missions while doing LASO and the game will randomly crash while I'm either in the middle of the mission or almost done so I have definitely wasted a good amount of hours on that which really pisses me off. Secondly, some of the new voices and cutscenes are cringe. I only recommend buying this after updates or when it goes for sale a good price.

I loved the original, I lasted 97 minutes on this one before uninstalling it.

as an old fan . this game misses the mark. the first intro cinematic overstays its welcome. the scorpion has no secondary fire . Cortana talks way too much and tells you what to do all the time. things feel slightly off. if they had done this as a one to one remake this might have been better. this game did not need to be made. play the original instead .