Halo Reboot’s Master Chief Replacement Is Dividing Fans

Halo Reboot’s Master Chief Replacement Is Dividing Fans

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The release of Campaign Evolved, the remake of the single-player portion of the first Halo game, did a lot to restore immediate faith in a franchise that remains immensely popular. As fun as it was to get all nostalgic, big questions still hang over the series as a whole and about where exactly it's planning to go next.

With all the changes at Xbox, Activision has now been placed in charge of securing its future and restoring it to the position it once held in all of our minds. That leaves us fans in the position of trying to work out what the best course of action is moving forward, and it turns out there is a portion of the community that thinks it could be time to move on from its most iconic figurehead.

Over on Reddit, one user shared a post citing their contention that Halo shouldn't be afraid to make more games where the player doesn't step into the steel toecap boots of Master Chief. It's a bold strategy, and one that worked in the case of Halo: Reach, though there's plenty of risk attached to the idea, given the shaky foundations the franchise currently sits...

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