Halo: Campaign Evolved

Hm. Klar, Nostalgie ist am Start und die Grafik ist wirklich Hammer. Hatte aber irgendwie nicht mehr auf dem Schirm, dass die Kampange so kurz ist... 6,5 Stunden und ich war durch. Dafür 60 Schleifen find ich schon wirklich dreist.

ni con un hambre insaciable de nostalgia soy capaz de tragarme semejante mierdota mal en todos los aspectos. que bueno que existen los reembolsos wacho

Where to start. Honestly, I had good hopes of this game without being too optimistic, and yet, I was still disappointed. Some parts feel ok, and many others just soulless. So much wasted potential it makes it worse. Very little good things, many average, and some straight up bad. Let's start with the good. The visuals are great, they look for the most part amazing. I say most part, because there are moments where lightning and plasma look odd. The gunplay is descent, feels like a mix of Infinite and CE. The campaign is still the classic to the core, so it is fun as always. If you didn't like the og, you won't like this one. Some mission ambiance now feels even better. They nailed how the maps felt before, and I gotta say some feel even better, like 343 guilty spark. The average. Some cutscenes add to the original story in a pretty cool way, however, some others look poorly made; ie. too wanky or with weird physics. The new weapons are cool but almost not found in the classic campaign. Most of the new stuff in the og campaign is good or ok. Feels like a stretch having been marketed as new vision and changes when the these are very minimal and don't add much, however, I wouldn't call it bad. The bad. There are many indicators in this game that show how little care it went through. The ragdoll animations are ATTROCOUS; they didn't even bother to rig the models proper muscle and skeleton. It was funny in the sneak peaks of the game, but the whole campaign? Not even silly, just straight up feels like they didn't care. If ragdolls are like this, I much rather have the original stiff ones. The sound. It is ok, but there are a lot of instances where the sound glitches and cuts. Also, some effects seem like they should have sound, but it doesn't. You'll have many moments expecting a sound, only for it to be underwhelming or completely absent. The animations. This would have been in average if they didn't cut so much and many of them are just straight up unfinished or glitching. The AI to me feels bad. The behavior sometimes just feels wrong, this happens specially a lot with the flood. Monetization in a single player game, with these not being available in the cutscenes and the price being pretty high. Not gonna lie, some are cool, but why would I buy them if I can't see them (yes, 3rd person, but come on). And again, in a single player game? Without sounding like I just don't like Halo Studios (I really wanted to like this game), the extra campaign/content is pretty bad. Just boring to play through and the characters and interactions from Master Chief and Johnson just don't feel right. What did they did to Johnson??? From being a cool, slightly cocky character, now we get one that just feels like an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The price. Technically does not count as a full price for 2026 standards, but I'd argue it is not worth it. I don't think too many new things were added to the game to justify the price. At least I don't think its worth it. In general, I would only buy the game maybe at half the price on discount. If you want to re-live the og campaign, or a have new experience with it, you are better off trying some of the campaign mods for MCC or the Halo CE PC version. I had much more fun with Halo SPV3 than Campaign Evolved, unfortunately. It is interesting and very scary to think how they'll handle Halo 2 and 3...

fun trip down memory lane

Yeah this game sucks lmfao

The 12 fps cutscenes and buggy gameplay killed it for me. Never disliked a halo game until now.

Was a fun experience.

I seldom write reviews; However, I see a lot of hate for this release and I am having a lot of trouble understanding it; Is the voice acting the same actors? no, and they don't need to be, sometime voice actors change, and honestly I have heard some poor performances before and these actors are doing a fine job (not $1,000,000 fine but fine enough for suspension of disbelief to pave over any patchy parts); As for hand-holding, maybe I just don't see it?, this game is pretty much a shot for shot remake of the original halo, cortana does hold your hand, "go here! do that!" that kinda always has been the case even in the past games. Are the extra missions some godly, amazing content that you can't live without?, no, but they are fun and they let you feel like the halo universe is a little bit more alive then it was before even if not executed masterfully. This is not meant to be some Kojima style artistic masterpiece; it is halo! You go stomping around as a super soldier murdering aliens with a story that is nice but not something genre-defining; it is 2026; halo 1 was made in 2001; you cannot expect amazing genre-defying gameplay from what is essentially a rebuild of a game from 25 years ago! TLDR: it's a fun, good looking remaster, with pretty good sound design in my opinion (and if you disagree that's okay)! I do second any bad reviews where they say you should get the MCC collection; it is amazing; really you should get this if you have played the halo series to death and just want something new to stave off that insatiable hunger for halo! If I could give a more precise rating for this game it would be: "Meets expectations"