Honestly, Iโm starting to get tired of the outrage cycle. Entirely.
Iโve loved every cinematic weโve seen so far, and pretty much everything Halo Studios has shown has only made me want to play Campaign Evolved even MORE.
The OG Halo fans Iโve seen are excited, the gameplay looks incredible, the atmosphere is there, and the ambition is obvious.
The rest is just noise.
A cinematic artist in the gaming industry gave harsh critiques of this Halo Campaign Evolved cinematic on LinkedIn:
โIt's hard to believe that this Cinematic for one of gaming's most iconic levels is what Halo Studios is shipping, but it appears to be. From the original 18-second cinematic, which had:
-A great establishing shot, showing the scale of the area, reinforcing the rings grand architecture
-Sleeping grunts, foreshadowing upcoming ambush gameplay (you're making a game, remember?)
-A quick gag of the grunts running scared
We now have a bloated 30-second cinematic of:
-A more constrained establishing shot.
-Doorway framing, a cinematic language of its own not appropriate for a scene like this
-Grunts awkwardly... arguing? Standing around? Flailing their arms? What are they even doing? Why are we watching them do this for so long?
-A stupid compression-effect shot on the grunt, so clearly made by someone just ITCHING to make a shot like this
-Inappropriate for Halo, an enemy, and for a character who you cant even see the face of.
-The cherry on top is the fully disconnected lighting between the cinematic and the gameplay space as the cinematic ends
Stuff like this needs to be rightly criticized, and all the more for remakes, which should have none of the confusion and cross-department bickering as new games might.
You're remaking a game. You know the space. You know the story. You should know the intent.โ