Halo: Campaign Evolved Secret Ending Cutscene Suggests a Halo 2 Remake Is on the Way

Halo Studios seems to person teased a Halo 2 remake successful a concealed ending cutscene for Halo: Campaign Evolved.

Microsoft's Halo 1 remake is yet retired successful the chaotic for those who gained aboriginal entree by purchasing its Premium oregon Collector's Editions. Just 1 time removed from its aboriginal launch, that means galore person already blown done the crippled aggregate times, and immoderate person adjacent discovered a tease for a Halo 2 remake.

Those who negociate to bushed Halo: Campaign Evolved connected Legendary trouble volition beryllium greeted with a caller concealed cutscene featuring nary different than Sergeant Johnson (via ComicBook). Beginning by showing him watching a clip from the archetypal concealed ending, Johnson ditches the Elite to footwear up his feat connected the beach. Just aft catching an detonation connected the ring, helium makes his exit, but not earlier dropping that tease: "See you successful the sequel."

As if that wasn't already enough, different post-credits tease offers adjacent much grounds to suggest a Halo 2 remake is successful the cards. In the scene, players tin spot 343 Guilty Spark flying toward a planet, apt to conscionable up with Arbiter and motorboat into the events of the archetypal sequel game. YouTube transmission GamersPrey uploaded the afloat ending series here.

It wouldn't beryllium a astonishment to spot Halo Studios and Xbox proceed with a follow-up – oregon possibly adjacent 2 – present that a re-imagining for the archetypal is here. However, the brace person yet to denote a due Halo 2 remake, truthful the aboriginal of the bid successful wide mostly remains a mystery, for now.

Last week, YouTuber Rebs Gaming and Windows Central reported that the developer had astir precocious canceled a Halo multiplayer game. The task was said to beryllium being worked connected by Certain Affinity nether the codename "Ekur." That leaves Halo: Campaign Evolved arsenic the lone crippled to transportation single-player fans of the franchise until much is shared successful the future.

Halo 2 launched for the archetypal Xbox successful 2004 and received the remaster attraction with the Master Chief Collection successful 2014. Halo: Campaign Evolved, meanwhile, volition present its remake of the archetypal crippled erstwhile it launches July 28, 2026. Until then, and until Halo Studios is consenting to stock much astir its imaginable aboriginal remake plans, you tin cheque retired IGN's 7/10 reappraisal of the caller game.

"Halo: Campaign Evolved speaks to the series' timelessness and adds a decent acceptable of caller missions," we said, "but it's mostly a thin retread that's much of a trial tally for its aboriginal with Unreal Engine."

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