Today, Microsoft and Halo Studios announced that a full remake of the Halo: Combat Evolved (aka Halo: Campaign Evolved) campaign is coming in 2026 to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Steam, PlayStation 5, and supports Xbox Cloud Gaming and Xbox Play Anywhere, as well as day one with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.
Halo: Campaign Evolved will feature a fully rebuilt campaign, brand-new story content, and 4K visuals.
When talking about the ground-up remake, Executive Producer Damon Conn talked about how this would be the perfect way to get new and old players alike into the fold:
“We wanted to start where it all began, with the original campaign that defined Halo. Starting here means people that have never played the game before will be able to understand the story from the very beginning, and that can help us chart a course forward with new Halo stories.”
“Focusing on the campaign experience means we can concentrate fully on really capturing the atmosphere, tone – the emotional impact of what made the first campaign so special and iconic.”
The blog post continued by explaining how, just because Halo: Campaign Evolved is remaking things to modernize gameplay, it doesn’t mean that it won’t still have the same feeling as the original. The same nine iconic weapons are returning, and all of your favorite vehicles are back.
Below, you can watch a trailer, gameplay, and commentary from the developers
In fact, you’ll be able to pilot more vehicles than ever in the remake, as players can hijack vehicles and even pilot the Covenant Wraith tank for the first time. Other firsts include four-player co-op, brand new skulls, sprint, and three brand-new prequel missions (set before the events of the campaign).
All of the new content created in Unreal Engine 5 is layered on top of code and systems carried directly over from the original games, featuring legacy code that helps maintain the authentic Halo feel within gameplay. This allows Halo Studios the ability to achieve the visual goal they’ve set via Unreal’s photorealistic rendering capabilities, with the simulation systems of Halo living and breathing beneath it.
Halo: Campaign Evolved will also be playable for the first time at the Halo World Championships, giving players an early hands-on look at how the game is coming along when it takes place later this month, October 24-26.
