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Does Halo: Campaign Evolved have a post-credits scene?
Halo: Campaign Evolved includes a post-credits-style secret scene for players who complete the full campaign on Legendary difficulty. It matters because the scene confirms Sgt. Johnson’s survival in a humorous way and strongly hints at a future remake of Halo 2, although no such project has been officially announced.
The standard ending, available on any difficulty after the original ten missions, has Master Chief and Cortana escape as the Pillar of Autumn destroys Halo, repeating dialogue from the 2001 game. The Legendary scene shows Johnson watching the original non-canon secret ending before leaving in a Pelican and saying, “See you in the sequel”; both endings also show 343 Guilty Spark surviving in space.
In short
- Legendary completion unlocks a humorous Sgt. Johnson post-credits scene.
- The standard ending recreates Halo’s original sequel tease.
- 343 Guilty Spark is also shown to have survived.
Explained simply
Halo is a science-fiction game series centred on Master Chief, a soldier fighting the alien Covenant alongside the artificial intelligence Cortana. The first game, Halo: Combat Evolved, was released in 2001 and helped establish the Xbox console.
Its story takes place on a vast artificial ringworld called Halo, which contains a dangerous system intended to combat an alien parasite known as the Flood. Sergeant Avery Johnson is a human marine officer who becomes a recurring supporting character in later Halo games.
The original game included hidden material that players could unlock by meeting certain conditions, a tradition that has continued in parts of the series. Halo 2, released in 2004, followed Master Chief’s story after the events of the first game.