Xbox’s flagship first-person shooter series makes its PlayStation debut next month, with Halo: Campaign Evolved confirmed for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 28 July, following five days of early access from 23 July for Premium Edition and Collector’s Edition buyers.
Campaign Evolved revisits the narrative portion of the original Halo: Combat Evolved, the 2001 launch title that established the Xbox platform’s identity in the first-person shooter genre and shaped the series’ trajectory across more than two decades of releases.
The PS5 release marks the first time a mainline Halo title has appeared on a Sony platform, a shift that reflects Xbox’s broader strategy of expanding its first-party catalogue beyond its own hardware to reach a wider installed base across competing consoles.
The remake carries visual upgrades built for current hardware alongside the introduction of weapons and mechanics drawn from later entries in the Halo series, expanding the original campaign’s combat options beyond what the 2001 release offered at the time of its debut.
Beyond the remaster elements, Campaign Evolved adds three original bonus missions grouped under the title Operation: METEORITE, a narrative arc set one year before the events of Combat Evolved that places Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson aboard a Covenant research vessel on an extraction mission that escalates beyond its original parameters.
Operation: METEORITE introduces new locations and enemy variants not present in the base remake, alongside a selection of classic Halo series weapons, extending the total playtime and giving returning players content that sits outside the original campaign’s established story beats.
Xbox and developer Halo Studios revealed Operation: METEORITE footage alongside the release date announcement at the Xbox Summer Game Fest showcase, held on Sunday, with the new missions representing the clearest indication yet of how Campaign Evolved differentiates itself from a straightforward graphical remaster.
The game will also be available through Xbox Game Pass and via cloud play from launch, with no additional purchase required for subscribers already on the service.
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