Rumor: Halo 2 and Halo 3 Are Also Getting Campaign Remakes - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2025 / 3,194 Views
The entire original Halo trilogy, and not just Halo: Combat Evolved, might be getting the remake treatment.
This is according to a social medial post from Halo insider Halo Leaks that claims Halo 2 and Halo 3 will also be remade. The remakes will reportedly be campaigns only as multiplayer is being reserved for Halo 7.
"Halo 2 & Halo 3 are being remade, yes they will have sprint," said Halo Leaks. "No multiplayer, only campaign. Full remakes. Multiplayer is going to be Halo 7."
Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Halo Studios last week officially announced a remake of the original Halo, Halo: Campaign Evolved, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass. It will launch in 2026.
Halo: Campaign Evolved is a complete remake of the original campaign from Halo: Combat Evolved using Unreal Engine 5. It features 4K visuals, updated animations, remastered music, re-recorded voice lines, weapons and vehicles from later Halo titles, three new bonus prequel campaign missions, and more.
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Good. Those are among the best video games ever made. The campaign of Halo 2 in particular is one of the best things that I've ever played.
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Have I missed anything about this gen?
creativity is disappearing
Lol, you broke the system
Yeah. I have a vast collection of consoles and games from Atari onward, so it's like... every time I go to read up on the latest news, they're releasing more and more of what I already own, only they're mostly bastardized versions that I wouldn't touch in a million years.
It sucks in one sense, but you gotta admit: it's quite the compliment. It basically confirms what us older guys claim. That when it comes to video games and creativity, our generation was superior.
Every gen since gen 4 was great, even now in gen 9, people joke about it but it makes harder going back to older gen when games run so damn well now, gen 7 is particularly hard to go back to, even as it has many great games.
I do preffer gen 6 over 4, based on the amount of games I love from both, but gen 4 was 2D era on its best and gen 5 was by far the most diverse and creative period in gaming history, not surprisingly was when gaming popped the bubble and started being mainstream.
While I do agree there have been a ton of remakes and remasters releasing in recent years, it’s not as though original games aren’t releasing. Just look at all the games from the past three years.
There is good stuff out there, just far less than when these remasters and remakes originally released. I mean, we got three GTA titles in a matter of three years... three. And they didn't even feel rushed, or re-hashed. They innovated vastly each time. That era is dead.
I still gotta disagree with you: there’s a similar (if not larger) volume of releases this gen than any gen prior IMO. For instance, 2023 is the year with the most games released with >90MC and by a wide margin. 2025 is also a massive year for games with >85MC. And that’s not even mentioning the indie scene, which was entirely absent prior to the 2010s.
Between 2001 and 2006 (one console gen), we got three FF games, two Kingdom Heart games, three main Ratchet and Clanks, three Jak games, three GTA games, two Halos, two God of Wars, two GT's,.. and on, and on... and ON.
There is no debate here. Zero. Compared to back then, good video games are almost vaporware.
Glorified ports being misleadingly branded as remasters?
Safe bets, and cheap and easy.... is how you make 30% returns.
Makes sense. Get the trilogy out there.
So no Halo 6 ? (I know infinite might be 6th, but it may not be as well. They decide).
They are working on a new Halo game. No details have been released yet.
Did anyone ask for this??
Hopefully they remake gears 2 aswel.
While its nice seeing these games return for nostalgia reasons, but whos asking for these? Id prefer them focusing on Halo 7, Halo Wars 3 or a Halo Battle Royal/ Helldivers game.
My guess:
MS is introducing the PS crowd to Halo with the initial trilogy that everyone loved, built on the most recent engine and tech (and gameplay), so they can possibly entice them to buy into the next chapter in the Halo franchise having an idea of what to expect, whatever that ends up being.
I am with Eric on this one, if you are going to bring Halo to the PS and Switch crowd than you need to either remaster or remake them. The first game is for the new 343 team to get their feet wet in using Unreal but I doubt they will be doing the rest of the remakes, its going to be some other studio while they should concentrate on a new Halo game.
Halo Wars 3 dream is dead and buried sadly, Creative Assembly pitched HW3 to Xbox in 2017 and the pitch was rejected, so likely that Xbox wasn't happy with the sales numbers for HW2. 4 years later in 2021 they reaffirmed that they had no plans to make Halo Wars 3.
I think the goal of the remakes is to grow a new generation of first time Halo players ahead of releasing Halo 7. They want new players to be able to experience the full campaign ahead of time, and while 1 and 2 Anniversary in Halo MCC are probably good enough for that, 3 is looking quite dated these days, so I guess they figured they'd go ahead and remake all 3 original trilogy games to give 343 devs more experience using Unreal Engine before making 7.
I am really hoping that between and shipping next year that "The Coalition" is giving he team full support and have some optimizations for Unreal 5 to iron out all the issues we continue to see with the engine. I was looking at Ark Raiders and the developers have done an awesome job with Unreal 5 so hoping we see a lot of improvements before shipping.
