{"id":230094,"date":"2025-10-28T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230094\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:50:19","slug":"digital-foundry-impressed-by-halo-campaign-evolved-but-worried-about-unreal-engine-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230094\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Foundry Impressed By Halo: Campaign Evolved, But Worried About Unreal Engine 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its latest weekly podcast episode, the folks over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FZLio3AN4fY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Foundry<\/a> have discussed last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/halo_campaign_evolved\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/a> reveal &#8211; and the team&#8217;s thoughts are mixed on the title despite being impressed by Halo Studios&#8217; vision thus far.<\/p>\n<p>The gist of DF&#8217;s discussion revolves around two main things: Halo Studios art style for the remake, and its Unreal Engine 5 technology base. The team seems pretty impressed with the look of the game generally and how the developer is reimagining a classic, but the number of visible UE5 issues on display are causing concern.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of what host John Linneman had to say on things:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I see this I see a lot of amazing things, but I also see a lot I can nit-pick, but I feel like the job that they [Halo Studios] were faced with \u2014 remaking something like this \u2014 is pretty massive because it&#8217;s so engrained in people&#8217;s memories. The first thing I&#8217;ll say is that this is a gigantic leap visually, stylistically over the original remaster [from 2011]. This comes far closer to matching the look and feel of the original Halo but with modern technology. I&#8217;m liking what they&#8217;re doing here.<\/p>\n<p>But unfortunately, we&#8217;ve reached this point now where there&#8217;s complete global saturation of Unreal Engine 5. And you just instantly see all the UE5 things popping out [&#8230;] You see all the noise, the fizzle, the micro-traversal stutters, the Lumen issues, plus the low resolution &#8211; you just kind of see those limitations sticking out like a sore thumb if you will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Linneman is quick to note that this is all early footage of course, and that Halo Studios will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/10\/halo-campaign-evolved-officially-announced-coming-to-xbox-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely be working on this for the best part of another year before the remake actually hits public release<\/a>. There is concern over the Halo: Campaign Evolved engine though, and whether the dev team can iron out issues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/08\/epic-ceo-suggests-unreal-engine-5-issues-are-due-to-developers-optimising-too-late\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seem ingrained with the Epic Games&#8217; technology itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chat leads on to fellow host Alex Battaglia also discussing their concerns with Unreal Engine 5, in a little more detail, before Richard Leadbetter adds some of their own thoughts. If you&#8217;d like to see the full discussion we recommend tuning into the video up above; the Halo: Campaign Evolved discussion happens for the first 20-minutes or so of the podcast!<\/p>\n<p>Do you share any of these positives and negatives with the DF folks? Talk to us about them down in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/youtu.be\/FZLio3AN4fY\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FZLio3AN4fY\" target=\"_blank\">youtu.be<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752511563_944_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ben Kerry\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin&#8217; in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he&#8217;s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that&#8217;s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its latest weekly podcast episode, the folks over at Digital Foundry have discussed last week&#8217;s Halo: Campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,97747,86,56,54,55,97748,183,695,694],"class_list":["post-230094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-halo-campaign-evolved","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-unreal-engine-5","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-series-s","tag-xbox-series-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}