Halo: Campaign Evolved’s New Missions Bring Master Chief And Sgt. Johnson Closer Together

Halo: Campaign Evolved primarily serves as a full remake of the original Halo's classic campaign mode, but the development team also added a handful of bonus prologue missions . Now, the development team has explained its philosophy for this additional content, and it largely comes down to the bro factor between the Master Chief and Sergeant Johnson. "As far as the new missions [go], we're really going for providing more context and backstory for Chief and Johnson's relationship," executive producer Damon Conn and creative director Max Szlagor said in an interview with GameSpot at Summer Game Fest . "You see them in [the original Halo] but you don't get a lot of context for who Johnson is and his history of being on missions with Chief." Aside from providing more backstory for Johnson and Chief, the new missions also gave Halo Studios an opportunity to explore different environments, including a Covenant ship and--as you may notice from the brief gameplay trailers released thus far--space battles. These haven't been a major element of Halo games to date, though they were featured in Halo: Reach back in 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WwqeSUMEIY Because of how the Halo timeline plays out, the prologue missions will not take place directly prior to Halo: Combat Evolved's story. Instead, they're set one year prior. "So it sort of neatly helps you to understand some of these relationships and get this broader view into the universe, as well," the devs said. The missions will be their own "self-contained story," but should serve as a bridge into the rest of the game. "It'