- The Halo campaign evolved‘s executive producer, Damon Conn, says the team wanted to explore the relationship between Sergeant Johnson and the Master Chief for the three new missions
- The new missions were also inspired by Troy Dennings Hello novels
- Halo Studios suggests that players play them according to the original story
The Halo campaign evolved executive producer Damon Conn and creative director Max Szlagor have confirmed that the remake’s three new missions were created with the help of Halo book writer Troy Denning.
In an interview with TechRadar Gaming at Summer Game Fest 2026, where we went hands-on with the upcoming game, the developers explained that Hello universe has a lot to explore, but they wanted to explore the relationship between Sergeant Johnson and Master Chief in the missions of Operation: METEORITE.
“If you think about it, in the original game, you see Sergeant Johnson as such an important character in those original games, but you don’t really get to know Sergeant Johnson as well or his relationship with the Chief,” Conn said. “It really set the stage for us creatively to think, ‘Hey, let’s talk about a mission that they went on a year before the events of The Ring,’ and then really go into their relationship and how they fight alongside each other.
“Even beyond that, there’s this whole other universe. You’ve got Spartans and ODSTs. You’ve got Brutes. You’ve got the Prophets. It’s really just us leaning into these other elements of the story that we can tell more deeply, that then let you go back and appreciate more of the campaign and what’s there.”
Szlagor added that Troy Denning, one of the authors who writes some of the Hello novels which Halo: Last Light, Halo: Retributionand Halo: Silent Storm – A Master Chief Storyalso “helped with the story” of the three missions.
“It’s a lore-authentic story,” he said, explaining that series veterans who have been fans for 25 years and played on Xbox or PC will get new pieces of information that they’ve been wanting, allowing them to “piece more of the puzzle together,” such as Covenant War.
“It’s going to be really fun for them,” Szlagor added. “But then also, if you’re completely new to the experience, maybe you’re a PlayStation player, you’ve never played before, and this is going to be something that would be really good to play once you’ve played the story of the main ring.”
However, the creative director suggests that players play the new missions “after playing and experiencing the original.”
“It’s meant to be played that way because we’ve made it more of a medium-difficulty experience, it’s come a little further. You start out and it’s a little more challenging than the first mission of Hellohe said.
“But again, you can play it in any order you want. We’re not going to make you choose or anything like that, but we’re just suggesting you play it that way.”
The Halo campaign evolved coming July 28 for PS5, Xbox Series X and Series S, and PC.
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