The Halo: Combat Evolved remake we’ve all been anticipating today, as part of the Halo WCC, has finally been announced. Halo: Campaign Evolved is a remake that Halo Studios and Xbox describe as “a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign.” It’ll arrive on Xbox Series X/S, PC, and PlayStation 5 sometime in 2026.
We’ve officially seen it all now, with all of Microsoft and Xbox’s biggest first-party franchises making their way to PlayStation. It was the inevitable endpoint we all saw when Halo Studios (formerly 343 Studios) confirmed that it would be dropping the Slipspace Engine and moving to using Unreal Engine 5.
It’s both exciting and surreal to see Halo making its way to PlayStation for the first time. You can check out the trailer for the remade campaign, below.
As far as what’s new in this remake, the answer is pretty much everything, since all of the assets, models, environments, everything has been redone and retooled for Unreal Engine 5, and to take advantage of all the features that engine brings along with it that Halo Studios couldn’t do within the Slipspace Engine.
There are also three brand-new bonus missions that act as a prequel setup to the main campaign. The actual Combat Evolved campaign hasn’t been changed with regards to how the story goes, these are new missions to give players a bit more than just a remake of the campaign.
Campaign Evolved also introduces four-player co-op for the whole campaign, letting you play through the campaign with three other people online. Also, even though Halo Studios never got it done for Halo Infinite, couch co-op is available for Campaign Evolved for two player co-op.
Alongside the trailer, and the above roundtable, which shares a little more about why Halo Studios went forward with Halo: Campaign Evolved at this point in time, we also got a full 13-minute gameplay showcase, which shows off the The Silent Cartographer level towards the beginning of the game.
As far as what this new remake doesn’t have, the big aspect missing that should be obvious, given the title of the remake, is that it doesn’t include the game’s multiplayer. It’s just the campaign. If you want to play multiplayer in the style of Halo CE, then the Master Chief Collection remains your best option.
All things considered, this remake definitely looks impressive at first glance, but a huge element of what made Halo unique was how the game felt thanks to the Slipspace Engine and everything that Bungie got right about what makes a good first-person shooter all those years ago. It’ll be interesting, to say the least, to see how players react when they get their hands on it at some point next year.
For now, you can wishlist the game on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
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