Whereas the extent designer behind the unique Halo: Fight Advanced may need expressed some criticisms about among the issues showcased within the gameplay for upcoming remake Halo: Marketing campaign Advanced, one other member of the unique growth crew has hotter opinions. In a social media submit, Marcus Lehto wrote about how the remake “feels real” and the way its new visuals are “attractive”.
For the sake of context, Lehto is an business veteran that had a hand within the creation of not solely the unique Halo, but additionally the design of protagonist Grasp Chief. In his social media submit, Lehto wrote about how he wished that the unique growth crew might have made Halo: Fight Advanced just like the upcoming Halo: Marketing campaign Advanced.
“My trustworthy impression of seeing the brand new Halo Marketing campaign Advanced is that this: I completely love the place that is going,” wrote Lehto on social media platform X. “The sport seems to be and feels real. It’s attractive in a manner I want we might have constructed it initially again in 2001. It warms my coronary heart to see Halo [Combat Evolved] like this.”
Whereas Lehto may be excited to see Halo: Marketing campaign Advanced, degree designer Jaime Griesemer took to social media to criticise among the modifications that had been made to the sport over the unique. In his submit, Griesemer famous {that a} specific scene from gameplay footage of the upcoming remake that allowed the participant to drive a Warthog up and run over some Hunters was initially not supposed.
“You aren’t supposed to have the ability to take the Warthog as much as steamroll the Hunters,” he wrote. “I deliberately positioned rocks in the way in which so that you needed to battle them on foot. When you’ll be able to simply smash the crates out of the way in which it wrecks the encounters.” Greisemer additionally criticised the elimination of what he known as the “WooHoo Soar” from the touchdown space, with Halo: Marketing campaign Advanced having changed them with bushes.
Halo: Fight Advanced was initially launched all the way in which again in 2001 as a launch title for the unique Xbox. The title would finally additionally get ported to PC. It noticed fairly a little bit of success, not solely in serving to set up the Halo franchise, but additionally Xbox as a brand new console platform that needed to be taken significantly by opponents Sony and Nintendo.
Halo: Marketing campaign Advanced was formally unveiled over the weekend. The title is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S in 2026, marking the primary time {that a} recreation within the Halo franchise will probably be exhibiting up on PlayStation. It’s price noting that the upcoming remake is not going to function the aggressive multiplayer that the unique is thought for. It can, nevertheless, deliver again the co-op gameplay from the unique.
Whereas Halo Studios plans to go for a “devoted but modernized” tackle Halo: Fight Advanced with Halo: Marketing campaign Advanced, the remake may also embody three new missions set earlier than the occasions of the unique recreation that includes Grasp Chief and Sgt. Johnson. Commenting on the multiplatform launch, Xbox recreation content material and studios president Matt Booty has famous that “our greatest competitors isn’t one other console.”
