Halo Co-Creator on Halo: Campaign Evolved: 'I Absolutely Love Where This is Going' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 October 2025 / 2,233 Views
Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Halo Studios last week officially announced a remake of the first Halo game Halo: Campaign Evolved.
Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto took to social media to praise the remake saying it "looks and feels genuine."
"My honest impression of seeing the new Halo Campaign Evolved is this: I absolutely love where this is going. The game looks and feels genuine," said Lehto. "It's gorgeous in a way I wish we could have built it originally back in 2001. It warms my heart to see Halo CE like this."
This is the first a Halo game will be releasing on a PlayStation console. President of Xbox game content and studios Matt Booty explained consumers no longer have a strong attachment to the devices they use to play games on and the hope by bringing Halo to PlayStation is to attract more people into the Xbox ecosystem.
"We are all seeking to meet people where they are," said Booty at the time. He added, "Our biggest competition isn't another console. We are competing more and more with everything from TikTok to movies."
Halo: Campaign Evolved will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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Yeah keep telling urself that u ain't competing with other consoles lol
Yeah. Young people all game, or almost all game. They are not choosing to go on TikTok instead of playing video games. They're doing both.
They aren't competing because they've already given up on competing so technically what he's saying is true.
Well he didn't say they weren't... He just said the "biggest" competition is all these other time leeches
You could easily argue the same is true for both PS and Nin
and the fact that they are putting their games on everything that can run them lol
But that has been the same for years, have they been competing with TV or books in the past? General internet? Youtube started when 360 launched, where they in competition with it?
Going for walks, that takes time. Are they in competition with walking?
I get trying to exaggerate the argument to prove a point... but is that not true?
Everyone only has 24 hours in a day. How you choose to fill that 24 inherently means some things have won your time (and money) and some things have lost.
I don't know about you but I have several nights in the past few weeks that I wanted to continue a game I've been playing when I get home from work but then I'm exhausted and just put on YouTube instead.
When I'm grinding a workout schedule I'm not pulling that time from sleep/work/eating... I'm pulling it from what would be entertainment time.
If you aren't doing 2 things at the exact same time, you are inherently choosing one over the other.
I'm not arguing Xbox has a "winning strategy"... I wouldn't bet on them doing anything successfully, but if they are already putting their games on the "competitions" platforms and you buy it... then they still won your time and money (minus the platform cut)
Well, yeah but that is why I find the statement odd. People only have limited time but being in competition with TikTok, working out or reading for consumers time isn't the same as being in competition with your main competitors in the same given market.
The venn diagram of what people do in their spare time has massive overlaps if you take all entertainment into account.
The venn diagram for gamers on which game platform they play on is very different. Many people who scroll on TikTok do not even game at all and MS is unlikely to covert them.
If you were living this same life back in the 90's, you would be doing the same thing, though. Only instead of Youtube after a long day, it would be MTV, or some other channel. That's what he's saying. That nothing has changed apart from the things competing against the industry.
Maybe they just mean they realise they are no longer are competition for Nintendo or Sony.
You seem to care about Xbox games alot lately, why?
I don't still haven't purchased any that's landed on PlayStation if
that's what ur protruding
So why do you care so much about what they say?
“If we lose our way with Halo, we lose our way with Xbox”
Phil Spencer, 2011
For balance it's worth noting that principal Halo game designer under Bungie Jaime Griesemer has been quite negative on the whole thing. From sprint to health packs to removing the rocks that prevent you from bringing the warthog to the hunter fight.
Game looks good.
Not a fan of the UE5 Lumen artifacts, pop-in or stutter though.
Hopefully my PC can smooth over those issues in some way.
Uhhhh yeah, that's cool.
