PlayStation 5 User Reviews

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343.. I mean..! “HALO STUDIOS” This is just a Graphics updated CE with Sprinting and pretty environmental effects/elements. Like I don’t hate this remake like everyone else seems too, it’s Fine just a Shiny CE. I could care less about the sprinting or the new weapons it’s cool I guess, but not having a Multiplayer mode or even Firefight was a mistake especially considering that they put this on PlayStation. Those PlayStation players should have experienced some type of Halo multiplayer experience with this game but didn’t get the chance… what a waste trying to grab more fans without a multiplayer. Especially after ending Infinites content, also the new prequel missions are just OKAY.. nothing more. This shouldn’t have been $50 I give this a 6/10 but with Couch coop with my lady it’s a 7/10. But I’m giving a 6/10 it’s Slightly Above average or It’s just Fine I can see why Asha/Xbox got tired of 343 and gave Halo over to Activision… yall don’t know what to do with Halo.

I was an OG Halo on the original Xbox, Duke controller and all. This game really did something that reminds us not everything should be remade. Is it bad? No- it’s still the original Halo but without hate or trashing the game, the style and vamped graphics really do somehow destroy what made the original a special game. It seems like I’m getting stuck on walls more during combat, the running mechanics and movement doesn’t feel like it did when Bungie was at the reigns. I’m playing through now and my experience is one of almost boredom, it’s not special, it hasn’t aged well in its revamp, and it’s a painful reminder that Microsoft’s killer app is a dead franchise. The game is begging to just have multiplayer added as that’s where the true fun came in. Again it’s not a bad game, I’m not hating- I’m just stressing my disappointment. I’d rather go hook up the old Xbox and play the original. Where I will find my hate, is on Microsoft as a whole. Somehow they’ve managed to milk and destroy every franchise they’ve bought. Bungie, Halo, Rare, Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark… it’s all so di$appointing I think it’s just time to let go.

Missing multiplayer, bad changes to cinematics and voice acting. The storytelling in new missions is extremely bad. Graphics is great, except changes in precursor architecture. Bad image quality on PS5 Pro, with lots of noise and missed option to turn off film grain and chromatic aberration at the time I played (fixed later). Gameplay is good and fun, but added buch of invisible walls and dead zones, does not feel like the sandbox as original Halo did.

Enjoying this game so far, a great dip back into the Halo world. I was an avid fan in the 2000s, but I haven’t played a Halo game 15 years so my memories of them are faint. That said I won’t make any angry comparisons to the first game. In memory this game mirrors the original and that’s fine for me. Graphics are great the rag doll death animations are still ridiculous the grunts are dumb as ever, it’s fun video gamey stuff. Given my vague memory of the original I can’t tell you what’s old and what’s new but it’s all fun to me. I just wish they had done 4 player PvP split screen.

As if any more evidence were ever needed as to why most mainstream critics of the "Oooo, dis pretty, dat good" variety come across as hopeless, paid shills, an 80 on Metacritic pretty much closes the case. And if any of those outlets every wonder why their readers are vanishing in droves, it's because YouTubers like the Act Man and Skill Up are eating your lunch and coming back for dessert. These are but two of many, many independent commentators that have more integrity, offer more insight and intelligence, and bristle with more passion for video games, than any other mainstream outlet combined. Oh, and this game **** balls.

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Halo: The Master Chief Collection has a better remaster of the first Halo game. It plays better and they haven't made random changes to both the character designs and cutscenes. You can also get it at a fraction of the cost. The new cutscenes look terrible with some of the animation decisions making no sense such as a ship flying directly under another ships engine. And yes they have added in a girl boss marine, who's incredibly unlikable.

I gave it a 0 only because of what this game is and means, not how well it plays. This game would have been a 6 if Halo CE did not exist, but since it is a remake, and made every single thing in the game worst except for the graphics, meaning that there will be players thinking this is a what Halo 1 is, I think is it insulting and damaging to the series and it's legacy, go play the original or the anniversary remaster, both are fine, this is not.

Los gráficos han mejorado, cosa innecesaria. El motor gráfico hace que tengas mal rendimiento juegues donde juegues

Juego normal lo mismo de siempre repetitivo a morir los mismo enemigos graficos medio medio

Jogo ruim.. nunca será relevante. Flop em todos os sentidos

The game is decent and had an amazing starting point. It looks great and I will give credit the library is good now. However, the gameplay additions are not great and in some ways take away from the experience versus the original. Not bad but not great either.

Review: Halo Campaign Evolved Score: 8/10 (Campaign) — but the package feels incomplete Halo Campaign Evolved is, at its core, an incredible love letter to the original Halo. The campaign has been rebuilt with a level of care and reverence that genuinely honours Xbox’s flagship series. The graphical overhaul is stunning — not just prettier, but thoughtfully modernised in a way that preserves the soul of the classic while making it feel fresh for a new generation. The campaign itself is a joy. Whether you’re a long‑time fan or stepping onto the ring for the first time, it’s a must‑play. And when you bring three friends along, the fun becomes limitless. Co‑op transforms the experience into chaotic, nostalgic brilliance — exactly what Halo should feel like. But the package has one glaring flaw: the absence of multiplayer. Not even a bridge into Halo Infinite’s existing multiplayer suite. That omission leaves the whole release feeling strangely hollow. Halo has always been a two‑pillar franchise — campaign and multiplayer — and removing one of those pillars makes the experience feel incomplete, no matter how strong the campaign is. Overall An amazing, beautifully updated campaign that celebrates everything iconic about Halo. But without multiplayer, it’s hard not to feel like half the experience is missing.

Gorgeous UE5 visuals, but clunky alterations and missing PvP make it feel unessential.

As an avid fan and veteran of the original combat evolved this really is campaign evolved. The bonus missions and remixed campaign options add much needed replay value with variety and challenge. My only complaints are some slight cinematics stuttering and lack of shell casings spitting out the warthog turret when firing which may have been a performance issue with the new effects. Every other gun still has this detail though and everything else looks great. Out of all the new cutscenes there is only one or two that don't live up to the first game. The lack of multiplayer should not be such an issue here, this isn't Halo 2 which was the birth of xbox live and competitive halo multiplayer...

Just meh. bad quality. Alot of glitches, frame drops. Nah not recommended. Don't waste ur money

Perfecto en todo lo que agregaron, solo le hace falta un modo Equilibrado en los. Modos gráficos para consolas.

It's woke trash for the modern audience. They took parts of the mcc pasted them together, added their political agenda and called it a new game. The sloppiest of slops

Need a online PS5 account linked to a Microsoft account for BOTH players to play local spit-screen. Microsoft really bringing the everyone has to be always online and monitored for everything experience to Playstation, no thank you. I will miss disks as I enjoyed throwing this one in the bin.

Amazing game! I don't know what people are complaining about. Gunplay is very good and that was my worry. You can adjust it in the settings to your linking. The adjustments are simple and effective. I like first person shooters but there is not many with good gunplay. Halo is a better game than call of duty for me.

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Es ist wieder Halo in schick – wie oft habe ich diesen Klassiker schon durchgespielt? 2001 ein Meilenstein, als Anniversary eine würdige Neuauflage und in der Master Chief Collection quasi perfekt. ​Jetzt das nächste Remake. Microsoft geht das Risiko neuer Ableger aus, da der große Erfolg ausblieb. 343 Industries baute zwar einen soliden Shop, reichte aber nie an die Qualität der Trilogie und Reach heran. Nach der Umbenennung in Halo Studios hofft man nun, dass die Fans erneut zugreifen. Ohne den Game Pass hätte ich wohl gepasst, aber für eine schnelle Runde zwischendurch taugt es. ​Grafisch lässt sich streiten, doch der Look passt zum Original. Spielerisch feilt man nur an Nuancen, ohne das alte Feeling zu verfälschen. Ob KI im Spiel war? Wenn ja, fällt es nicht auf. Ganz ehrlich: Wenn KI Entwicklungen beschleunigt und Release-Zyklen verkürzt, ist das nur vernünftig – sonst warten wir auf neue Blockbuster irgendwann zehn Jahre. Kommt mal klar.

Was a 10/10 for me but dropped another point because of performance issues. There were to many enemies and was very overwhelming. I gate those bug things

As a veteran halo player i really don't understand the hate Halo campaign evolved gets online. The graphics look awesome and i think they did a good job in delivering the atmosphere. Especially in the later chapters with the flood. The gameplay was spot-on imo, the new faster movement is a step up. The cutscenes can be cringy from time to time, but lets be honest. What can be more cringy than the terrible original voiceacting from Echo 419? Cringy cutscenes and dialog aside i had a blast with campaign evolved and i think they did a great job modernizing it. Its almost like its a trend to piss and hate on this game and i honestly dont understand why. If you're autistic and cant handle changes made to a game from 2001, then just go play the original. That said i hope they will make a Halo 2/3 Remaster like this and i hope that the dev team gets some more positive recognition for this fine remaster.

Le remake d'Halo souffle le chaud et le froid pour commencer le jeu est plutôt beau mais dommage que le contenu supplémentaire qui n'est rien d'autre qu'une succession de gunfight, cela aurait mérité d'être plus scénarisé.Pour ce qui est de la campagne principale la nostalgie de 2002 pour nous européens que de souvenirs mais quelques mécaniques auraient mérité d'être revue et les voies françaises qui ont été remplacés est une honte.Mais Halo reste Halo.

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Was a 7/10 for me but dropped another point because of performance issues. There were to many enemies and was very overwhelming. I gate those bug things

Given that I've never played a Halo game before, I had a blast with this one and immediately understood the hype about this series. However, I wish they did more than a (remarkable) graphics overhaul and actually modernized the gameplay and level design. At the end of the day it is one of those Remakes that feel more like an expensive Remastered, if it wasn't for the three bonus prequel missions that fit really well into the story.

Campaign Evolved was a huge opportunity to create the definitive edition of one of the greatest FPS games of all time, but unfortunately it doesn't seize that ****'s a fun game and a decent experience, once the strange settings such as narration, hit markers, sprint, film grain, camera shake, excessive waypoints, weapon icons, etc have been disabled. The graphics are beautiful, and the gunplay is smooth and well executed. But it suffers from a lack of cohesive vision. Is this a remake or a remaster? The game itself doesn't seem to know. It's too timid where it should have been brave, e.g. adding new weapons, enemies, encounters, or map redesigns. And too brave where it should have been timid, e.g. changing character faces and personalities (Johnson, Keyes), removing health packs, adding sprint. The result is a beautiful and responsive shooter with a distinct lack of character or depth. Well worth a playthrough, but if I ever want to experience Halo CE again, the original disc is the one I'll reach for.

Setting Cross play is incredibly difficult for zero reason, and split screen online play requires online accounts for both players. A group of friends and I tried for over 3 hours to get connected to try the 4 player campaign. There is absolutely no reason to make it this difficult. If you intend to play this with friends, reconsider before wasting your time and money.

this game is so disappointing on every levels. it's the definition of everything wrong with north-american triple A. everything is a matter of appearance while the core, or heart, of the game is totally missing; on the contrary, they even go as far as insulting Master Chief and make him almost the real bad guy. So, that's another game sacrificed on the north-american virus called "wokeness" and the studio (ironically called halo studio while they've done very little on this release) clearly never cared about the franchise seeing how they kept on mistreating it over & over since they took the the task. Fortunately, the original has been released in an enhanced version with the collections, and it would have been a much better deal for Playstation users to release Halo Master Chief collection on PS5 (with a real physical release and not the usual xbox game you have to fully download despite owning the Bluray).

Classic missions: beautiful and fun. Extra 3 missions: beautiful and stupidly hard.

An unnecessary remake, worse than the MCC version in every single aspect. I only recommend playing it "for free" on Game Pass.

It’s like they totally don’t understand what makes the original good. It’s too clean and shiny. Obviously they had to shoehorn in woke crap too. With a very manly (probably lesbian) “woman” that seems to think she’s the star of the game. Awful truly awful remake. Avoid

As a long time fan of Sci-Fi-Shooters who loves Quake, Doom, Unreal Tournament, Titanfall etc. i was excited to catch up on this game... sadly i was pretty disappointed. I guess back than the game was pretty great, but playing it now as a newcomer, it just feels outdated. The leveldesign is something between horrible and boring, the shooting and the enemies feel repetitive pretty soon. The driving of the vehicles is somehow weird. Also the story turns out to be nothing special. This remake is only for fans of the original, and wont turn newcomers into Halo-Fans.

They didn’t respect the source material and they basically spray painted all over a once great franchise with a bunch of unintentional cringe and poor division. I’m actually blown away by how bad the writing, sound design and level design really is. And there’s no multiplayer!! The graphics & art design are good though! Such a shame what they have done to Halo.

If the goal was to prove a Halo game can be successfully built in Unreal Engine, mission accomplished. Does not offer much more than the original Halo CE which was already graphically updated as part of the MCC. The game was good, even great at times, but isn't without issues. The 3 new prequel missions are bonus content more than anything, very poor development and writing for those ones.

If this is your first Halo game, you may give it 5 out 10. If you've someone who's played Halo since the start, it's at most a 2 out of 10. 1 point for the game not being completely broken. 1 point for graphics being decent. Anything else was just painful to play. Please fire the writing team, they need to go so they don't destroy any other games in the future. It takes effort to ruin a legend **** that was already made than to just touch it up with modern graphics yet they somehow did it. The game and writing was already done, they just need to touch up the game but somehow they made it so much worse.

While there is a lot of good to be said about Halo: Campaign Evolved and I had fun playing it, I can't help but wish it was a brand new take on the classic game (like FF7 Remake) rather than the same game with a shiny UE coat of paint, plus a few new missions. Also the lack of a multiplayer mode left a hole in the overall experience that no updated graphics or fun new missions could ever fill.

No multiplayer, gotta pay for skins, just bad honestly, worst than the original

Es un juego decente, pero para ser remake se queda corto ya que tiene problemas tecnicos y de gameplay, fuera de eso si te gusto el Halo CE en su epoca este te va a gustar, bueno eso creo.

I had a really good experience with the game; the gameplay and story were solid, the graphics were good, and the enemies were amusing with decent AI. I played on the hard difficulty setting and encountered a few minor bugs—such as the occasional loss of gunshot sounds—though these were very rare. Unfortunately, the cinematics were poor, so my final rating is 8 out of 10.

If I could I would give a negative score. This is just a sloppy remake that doesn’t do any justice to the original game. Everything they added on top of it is also objectively very bad. Physically cringing just remembering some of the voice acting. Halo is gone folks just remember the good times we all had with it.

instead of making something new and fun just another remake-cash-grab. we need less of this, not more. lots of other great games to play instead of this. or just play the original.

Of course, it loses some of its magic from 25 years ago, but back when the game first launched, picking up fallen enemies' weapons, driving vehicles, piloting flying crafts, and the sheer awe of stepping into those vast, open environments—along with the gunplay feel—were absolutely incredible and beyond words for that era. Even now, it feels fantastic to play it with modern graphics.

Abysmal ****, and does the original no justice, not surprising everyone who worked on this got fired.

Sorry... I'm not interested in playing this game that looks like **** on my PS5.

I am not sure why game developers love to ruin and change source material. Is it to appease to a “modern audience?” They switched around characters. They made female characters ****? It detracts from the experience as a whole. It’s like drizzling vinegar over a gourmet meal. The meal is still there in proper form, but tainted with unnecessary ingredients. The people who make these decisions should be fired.

Before you read on, I just want to say that I am a proper Halo fan. I've played every Halo campaign and completed them all on Legendary, and honestly, I think Campaign Evolved is one of the best things Halo Studios could have done at this point in the franchise. I understand some of the criticism, because not every change will land for everyone, and there are absolutely people who will prefer the original art direction, movement or pacing. But when I actually sit there and play it, rather than analysing it from a distance, it properly feels like Halo. The atmosphere, the scale, the combat, the mystery, the colour, the slightly strange mix of military sci-fi and wonder. It feels like the original has been handled by people who actually understand why it mattered. And I really don’t buy the argument that this remake has no reason to exist because we can already play Combat Evolved... Halo Studios has spent years being told (sometimes fairly) that it lost sight of what made Halo special. It has now changed leadership (again), changed its development approach and moved away from Slipspace to Unreal. If you are effectively rebuilding the way an entire studio makes Halo games, what better place could there possibly be to start than the game that defined what Halo was in the first place. Go back to the original. Understand it properly. Rebuild it together. Learn the new technology while everyone in the studio is working towards the same known reference point. Re-establish a shared understanding of what Halo should look, sound and, most importantly, feel like. It’s a calibration exercise as much as it is a remake, and Combat Evolved is the obvious north star. That’s also why I’m glad they haven’t treated it like a museum piece... Some things about the original Halo were brilliant design decisions. Other things were just products of making a console FPS in 2001, on the hardware available at the time and within the conventions of that era. I don’t think respecting Halo means pretending those two things are identical. Modern UI, movement, sprint and other changes don’t automatically make something “not Halo” simply because Bungie didn’t put them in a game 25 years ago. The important question is whether those changes damage the experience that made Halo special. For me, they don’t. That’s what makes Campaign Evolved feel worthwhile. It isn’t just Halo CE with better graphics. It feels more like an attempt to answer the question: "what if somebody came up with Halo: Combat Evolved today?" Keep the identity, the sandbox, the atmosphere, the Covenant, the Forerunner mystery and the rhythm of the combat, but build it using what developers and players have learnt in the quarter of a century since. Preserve the experience, not every limitation that happened to surround its creation. And actually, I think that makes this a far better foundation for whatever Halo Studios does next. Recreating CE perfectly would show that they can preserve Halo. Changing it substantially while still making a long-term Halo player sit there thinking “yes, this still feels like Halo” shows something much more important: that they might finally understand which parts can change and which parts absolutely cannot. That's the skill they will need when they make the next genuinely new Halo. Of course Campaign Evolved doesn’t prove they can do that yet. Remaking The Silent Cartographer brilliantly doesn’t mean you can invent the next Silent Cartographer. Creating a new story, new worlds and new moments that become as iconic as the originals is still the real test. But this is exactly where I would want them to start. What frustrates me slightly is that Halo sometimes seems trapped in a position where the studio cannot win. Change things and people say it isn’t Halo. Keep things the same and people ask why the game exists. Make something completely new and people complain they have forgotten what Bungie taught them. Go back to Bungie’s original game and study what made it work, and apparently that is going backwards. At some point we have to give Halo Studios room to actually get something right. Criticism is important and real, and nobody should pretend otherwise, but there's a difference between wanting Halo to improve and becoming so attached to one particular version of what Halo is allowed to be that nothing new can ever succeed. Because if that happens, the people who ultimately lose aren’t Microsoft or Halo Studios, it's all of us who still want more Halo. And after playing Campaign Evolved, I’m considerably more optimistic about that future than I was before.