Step into the fight with Halo: Campaign Evolved.
The Covenant believe the Silent Cartographer lies hidden beneath this island — a key that could unlock the secrets of Halo itself. Your mission: locate the map room and uncover the path to the ring’s control center.
Halo: Campaign Evolved, coming to Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PlayStation 5 in 2026, is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign, rebuilt from the ground up with high-definition visuals, refined controls, 2-player splitscreen co-op on console, up to 4-player online co-op on console and pc, 3 new missions, an expanded arsenal of weapons, vehicles, new enemies, and more.
Preload is up btw. ~70GB of space needed on Xbox.
Purchased the Premium Edition Upgrade for $20 so I will be putting Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced on hold so i can start playing Halo: Campaign Evolved tomorrow. Wasn’t going to do this but since im off from work the next four out of five days, I figured why not?
Let’s go baby!!! ![]()
Thanks for the heads up, just started the download!
I was going to wait till next week, but noticed I 10$ from MS Rewards auto-redeem sitting there not being spent!
Not sure what I’ll start first, though. Old campaign or the new missions ![]()
I would recommend the OG campaign first.
I actually did that. While I remember the game beat to beat, I like to revisit old memories. I am aware nostalgia can blind a person, but something about it always feels special for better or worse. Now I’m ready to see what this brings.
I purchased the premium upgrade and downloaded the game but it says “it’s too early”. How do I get the Early Access version via Game Pass Ultimate?
Microsoft needs to separate this stuff and make it easier.
Same is happening to me, so has to be an issue on the backend.
Pre renderd cutscenes is weird, especially at 30fps, what could the reason possibly be? They don’t look like those pristine CG movies of Halo 2 Anniversary, they are the same as the game’s visuals to my eyes at least. But in any case I do love the look of this, it has overcome the UE5 look which I was worried about.
Yeah, im seeing the issue on Twitter with many people.
Microsoft should have a separate version for the Premium Edition Upgrade. It’s such a pain in the ass. I remember taking a few hours just to be able to access Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 early via the Premium Edition Upgrade.
They are investigating.
Yep it happens every time and they still haven’t got on top of it.
They want to maximise revenue by getting us to have Game Pass but also purchase the upgrades, they need to sort this shit out.
Really fucked off as if it’s not sorted very very soon I won’t get to play tonight grr
I agree.
Rebs Gaming is correct about one thing - how is there always an issue around Halo? Like, honestly? How is that even possible? Every freaking time. Ugh.
Having this issue, I should have just stayed with my original plan of continuing to play Black Flag which I still have a ways to go and wait on Halo but being off four out of five days including today, I was like screw it, I want to play it. lol
But nope, as of now, can’t even play it. It’s so disappointing.
It’s annoying, but this is more of an Xbox platform issue, as it has happened multiple times with other games.
Plus, ignore Rebs on this one, as he clearly has an agenda to stoke the flames against the current Halo leadership.
Yeah, true but it’s so damn disappointing. Can’t even play the game despite the fact that I paid for GPU years in advance (im good for another two years) and the $20 for the Premium Edition Upgrade. At this point, it’s fucking bullshit and Microsoft needs to fix their fucking shit.
I agree that Rebs has an agenda regarding 343 management and whatnot. Shame because he does have good information, details and videos. He just needs to eliminate the agenda bullshit and he would be a lot better.
It is, and I hope this time it will generate enough noise for them to look into it, especially as Asha Sharma seems keen to get in as many quick wins as possible.
It’s working now!! LETS GO!!!

