Halo: Campaign Evolved has all of these issues because the game was fundamentally rushed out the door last minute. It was originally supposed to launch Nov. 15th, 2026. This was changed due to GTA 6. Yes this is a real, no it's not fake. It's exactly what happened.

I'm speechless...

From the characters just randomly standing around not saying anything in the cutscenes, to the AI itself just behaving weirdly. It all goes back to this one simple fact. Video source: @vengeful_vadam

Game is fun but the fact we’re still fighting reskinned reach elites is insulting. It’s been 15 years make some new AI and animations

All true but it doesn’t change the fact that the overall game is fun as fuck and with H2 clearly on the way per the ending cut scene they can take more time And I’m sure with how popular this remake is right now they will have a patch

And I don't care. I loved the game, I'm playing it right now.

So it's fair to say they owe us 5 months of major updates. But I doubt we'll see much improvement.

Does it matter? This would’ve been garbage even with that time. Stop making excuses for a triple a publisher for not being able to do their job. They would’ve stolen code from previous games, they always take shortcuts, it’s fucking 343. They butchered a halo 1 remake again.

Yo they got Yu-Gi-Oh's invisible guns fucking sweet 🤣

Oh my god it’s not loaded! Oh my god! My childhood is ruined!

@GreenArrowList What’s happening with the next main Halo game then? I’m all for a 2/3 remake BUT come on I want another main game

Just want to remind everyone that Halo CE for MCC is $10 on steam and it has online match making and modding support.

What issues? Skill issues?...play on Legendary and capture the gameplay, then we'll talk.

If that’s real, it just goes to show how disgusting the leadership is. They could have waited and gave us multiplayer . Full game . But no release slop and charge 20 less.

Oh no, a minor LOD issue.

The most annoying voice over of a crowbcat type video

We can blame the studio until our faces are blue but the real lack of quality in games now a days are the big money makers laying off thousands of people ever quarter

If this game was everything is could and should be, no one would even care about GTA.

That's really no excuse - the game was in development for at least 2 years, mostly outsourced. When GTA6 delayed and Microsoft decided to push it 4 months early, they should have allocated many (if not most) of the programmers at the studio to working on finishing and polishing CE, especially given they need a win to get Halo back in track. Aside from the lack of polish, the direction (story-wise, voice acting, and cinematics) is terrible and a downgrade from a 25-year-old game; that cannot be fixed in 4 months and is a clear design issue. The subtle changes to dialog exhibit all the problems with modern writing and game design in general - misunderstanding the source material, trying to inject emotion where it doesn't belong or fit (Keyes' pistol while removing his iconic line), adding unnecessary exposition which treats the audience like they are idiots. Those lines are then delivered with regularly incorrect tone or enthusiasm, which is clearly a directing problem because even Jen Taylor, who is fantastic in every other game, does a terrible job here. This is abundantly clear in the pathetic prequel missions that were clearly tacked on - the poorly written girl-boss, stilted and unnatural dialog, in-your-face references, needless exposition (the prophet introducing the species scene might as well have come from the terrible Halo TV show it was that bad), generic level design and a silly gimmick shoehorned in (the Brute's glowing red chest device). Some of the animations are horrible and often worse than a 25 year old game, particularly in certain pre-rendered cutscenes which are far less excusable. The AI is laughably bad and in many cases worse than the original. Even the sound design has bizarre choices where they easily could have kept the original or used assets from other titles like they did for some models and sounds, like making the sniper rifle sound like a weak generic rifle or the Battle Rifle sounding like a pea shooter. It's not just the lack of polish - it's the terrible direction and abundance of little choices that indicate very big competency problems at Halo Studios. This is coming from someone who loved Infinite (it certainly had shortcomings, but was a return to form that was badly let down by mismanagement and the post-launch content drought it produced) and hoped to see the series get back on track. If Campaign Evolved is any indication of what the new direction of Halo will look like, Microsoft would be better off shutting the studio down and handing the IP to the highest bidder, because Microsoft and 343/Halo Studios/whatever you want to call them, just can't get out of their own way.

This game feels like a fan made project. Can’t believe this is what they released after 5 years.

Of course it should have launched in the actual anniversary, the July release never made sense to me.

Is there even that much of a player overlap between GTA 6 and halo? You would think gears eday or mw4 would have been moved earlier, but not a halo remake with no multiplayer. It's very baffling why they keep choosing this specific franchise to cut corners and rush things out

As I’ve said, games are much more enjoyable when you stop listening to whiney gamer bitches on X.

It’s lore minus the body vanishing into the halo void 😂

I hate you @RockstarGames

The tranny designs are deliberate, it has nothing to do with rushing the woke developers.

I honestly have not had any issues at im 25 hrs in

So, it's better to wait for the patches.

15 November is on Sunday. Yeah, sure…

Halo: Rushed development evolved.

implying more time would've made it any good

I think they should come forward with how long the game has been in actual development, because it's genuinely impressive if they manage to put this out in less than 2 years, everyone complained about how lackluster infinite content output was

You probably want to note they are only using Unreal Engine 5.5 which still has numerous legacy issues that have been fixed in version 5.6 and beyond.

Halo can't be "back" if it can't get itself anywhere.

2 months won't make a difference. Sorry but @Halo is dead ( just as @XBOX )