This is what makes Halo such a historic game series: people who are willing to go above and beyond the average and assemble such a wonderful work of love to this amazing game.
Thank you for your passion! I know the Halo devs probably have the same love for the game, but I hope the corporate overlords see how much the fans appreciate your work and loosen the reigns on 343 devs
They also cut a story element where it was established that Miranda Keyes is angry at Chief because she doesn't understand why he couldn't save her father. ONI kept all information on the Flood top secret and forbade Chief, Cortana and Johnson from telling anyone about it. Consequently, the true circumstances around Jacob Keyes's death were withheld from everyone including Miranda. Apparently Miranda was originally going to be really cold towards Chief until the 2nd half when she encounters the Flood and would have realized it wasn't his fault and that Chief did her father a favor by crushing his skull.
All she would have known is the Chief had killed her father, and she was going to get revenge by somehow using him as a sacrificial bomb against the Flood. It's honestly a sub par story idea and better off cut.
@kassarc16 The way it was planned, with Miranda tricking Chief and trying to kill him basically, is absolute garbage, I agree. But the way OP described it sounds way better and I would be on board with it. Regardless, I'm happy we got Halo 2 the way it is!
Thank god they cut that out. It wouldn't make any sense. I don't know when the expanded media came out that detailed how there were additional survivors from Halo CE (and explained how Johnson escaped), but originally, Chief and Cortana were the only two to make it out of there, with Johnson escaping on his own because plot armor. Everyone else on the PoA died as well. I don't think it would make much story sense, nor would it be fair, for her to be demanding why Chief couldn't save her father when he was unable to save _anyone._ Honestly, she would probably across as a "Del Rio" type character, and I don't think I've EVER heard anyone say he was a good character. I dunno, I figure having that dynamic would just have players hating Miranda and I couldn't see this story arc doing her character any favors really.
@@Dylan-xx2tk They explained how Johnson survived in a book called First Strike that takes place immediately after the first Halo game. Him and other marines were in a pelican when the Halo exploded and Chief picked up their signal when scanning for other possible IFF tags and docked with them.
The original original version was going to have even more levels and The Arbiter and Chief banding together to fight Truth on earth at the end! That would've been epic😭
i can't believe they restored all this content. i wonder what Marty O'Donnell has to say about this, it would be so cool to hear his thoughts about this
Although if that had happened we probably wouldn’t have any more halos which some people would say is a good thing but I’m glad we’re still getting games even if they are… rough around the edges. Plus getting halo 3 odst and reach were indirectly caused by halo 2s rough development
So that's why the Outskirts mission has so many snipers and why they're so strong, you were meant to sneak past them while taking out the enemy silently with detection being punished by those aimbot snipers.
You could actually get out of the map a tad and run it like the sniper mission in CE. Although you won't have that massive ammo count so you'd be stuck with a beam rifle and sniper. It didn't feel the same but it was close.
@@MOxMOxDAMONSTER Yeah I remember having to pull that trick with a friend just to get past the courtyard bit on Legendary because the snipers would just spawn in randomly and one shot ya. Same as with Delta Halo, on your way to the Temple you can get out of the map too, only issue is that no enemies spawn and you cannot leave the level unless you drop back into an arena before the last checkpoint.
There's another one at the very beginning of high charity too. A pelican drops off some carrier forms, but I'd you keep watching, it flies off overhead of your spawn and you can watch a banshee desperately chase it into the lower city, it's so cool
The fact that this game had such a rocky development and came out as probably the most successful addition to the franchise is still mind blowing to this day 😂😂😂
@@TheBig451 I've never heard of that game before, I've heard of "5 Guardians", but with the Halo suffix? Are you sure? Nah, I would have seen it in the shops or on Xbox Live!
Other than pioneering console multiplayer Halo 2 is not the most successful addition to the franchise. Halo 3 sold better and honestly handled multiplayer better (especially custom games and forge). Halo Reach was also great in its own way, despite having a more controversial multiplayer it was a much more fully realized game than Halo 2.
The extra survivors on Sentinel Wall would have been such an amazing way to set the levels mood early on. Now that's not to say seeing the scattered bodies and the dialogue of the survivors didn't do a good job. But it really hits that much harder how dangerous your situation is when you gather up those survivors, feeling like you have a good sized and well equipped team, just to watch them all get cut down. Being left alone and caught between two enemies that tore through your allies like they were nothing.
Definitely reminds me of the two elites who chat during the gondola ride in Quarantine Zone. *Tatarus flights Phantom to harass the humans* Elite #1 "That fool! He'll alert them to our presence!" Elite #2 "Look on the bright side, maybe they'll shoot him down?"
Halo 2 will always be one of my favorite video games of all time. The story, the characters and the OST. I honestly couldn’t imagine it being better until now.
the fun thing about the jackal shield is that part of spartan training was to have them pick up the shields any time they came across them and in at least one of the books we actually see spartan 3s(i think) picking them up and strapping them on. i remember hearing rumors of the jackal shield supposedly making an appearance in every single game after combat evolved.
I just wish it was an actual thing in gameplay, both multiplayer and single. Would’ve been fun to mess with, forcing the enemy to change tactics on the spot, getting rid of enemy fire on you briefly. Urging you to rush them by having the sword and sheild on. Seriously that would be FUN!
I remember as a kid trying desperately to get the Wraith's mini-turrets to work, literally hours and hours pressing the most random button combinations refusing to believe I just couldn't
Also with trying to pilot the Shadow in Metropolis. Or the pelican you could flip in the same level. Or the phantom that's docked at the beginning of High Charity.
My boys, use the Unit Possession glitch to play as a marine or Elite and watch as your wraith can now use the mini secondary turrets. Not perfect but they absolutely work! 👌
I think I'm having a berenstein bears moment because I remember them working, I might be thinking of a halo:CE mod that added the halo 2 wraith though. I also don't remember the needler being bad. So who knows
I genuinely felt disturbed at the part where it’s found out the flood spores were inside high charity life support systems, would also explain why the flood spread so fast, because they were inhaling the fungus, genuinely had my jaw dropped to the floor at that one..
MY favorite moments in ANY Halo game was always having a small militia of forces following you and watching them fight. Halo 1, Assault on the Control Room, you could get up to 11 marines to that final moment when you see the hunters chasing them at the bottom of the canyon. Between that and the short bit where you have a marine army at the end of 343 Guilty Spark, I just loved the feel of fighting with a large force and trying to keep them all alive. Loved that stuff in every Halo game. It really makes it feel like a warzone rather than a one man army bashing through everything. Even just moments like in Truth and Reconciliation where Cortana calls in marine support to land inside the covenant hangar if all your initial forces die, feel really impactful towards making the game feel like a fight for survival. Just finding corpses around doesn't do it justice.
Hehe bro I'd often revert to the last checkpoint if I couldnt keep as many allies alive as I wanted XD. Like an extra challenge. It's also fun to find out that the allies can sometimes actually come with u way further into the level than you expected and still do their job!
@@JorisWeima Yeah, or there are moments where they won't follow, but if you manually push them past a certain point, they'll continue again. I remember doing some eird stuff like getting a marine filled warthog past the security checkpoint in Silent Cartographer where you see that gold elite, and if positioned a certain way, they'd sometimes survive the wipe that kills them all and even hill him in the cutscene. Or just get a warthog there to roadkill him. There was always something fun to do with them though. Really wish tehre was more focus on the marines. Infinite had a great opportunity for that and they squandered it.
@@JorisWeima haha, same. on classic xbox after having beat the game a dozen times on legendary since it was my only game and i was on EI at the time that was the natural next step. Plus contextually, I always figured, you're the master chief, marines shouldn't die when you're around to back em up
i know for a fact that my sisters would have dual-wielded them in co-op. they were pretty bad at halo games for a while. those shields would have let them be a tank now and then while i did the shooty parts.
The shields above the radar is something I desperately want the ability to put back. It doesn't have to be the default, but it was perfect because your eyes are constantly glancing there...meaning you look to one spot for both points of info. It's not weird. It was the best IMO.
@@cursedhawkins1305 Yeah money talks but theyre only in that position because of not adding what we wanted in the first place so maybe learning the hard way is what they outta do to fix what they broke to begin with you reap what you sow
@@Green-IV The problem I see with the whole "not adding what we wanted" when it comes to an entire community is that it can easily alienate that community, I mean look at what happened with Halo 4's launch and the leak prior, people didn't want to believe there was ADS or sprint in the game but the game launches and both of those were in the public release which caused a massive uproar.
@@cursedhawkins1305 Yeah well ADS is sure as f*ck not what we wanted most nor requested, I cant speak for the sweaty nerds playing H4 and H5 all day who wanted the game to play in their favor or at least preference, but as far as I can remember 'what we wanted' consisted of many things aside from the way the sights looked when you zoomed lmao- at least before that became an issue- the fact that it is is again 343s fault. You dont have to add that shit. The reason its all ppl talk about when they do, is because its all they have to talk about. And bcuz thos eppl are newbies they attracted via selling Halo Incorrectly lol If they were actually adding content to the game, some of these problems wouldnt have so much weight- H5 proved that pelicans, where tf are they already??? a file browser that works let alone exists in the game- its been roughly 14 years since we had one lol and thats just a quality of life feature *Also commendations: in reach they gave xp and there o loads for MP, Campaign, and firefight, halo 4 had that feature if I recall correctly I could go on but my goddamn essay has had you read enough so Ill leave it at that
When I tell people I think cut content would be a great way to monitize MCC I absolutely mean it. Seeing cut content like this would be incredible, can be optional, and acts as a great way to add additional content that's 100% worth paying for.
I like a lot of what's been done here. Some of the cut dialogue especially is pretty nice, like Cortana's messages about what's going on in High Charity during the infection. However, and hopefully not to come across as rude, I don't think the line Cortana mentions about In Amber Clad being flood controlled worked well. The delivery seemed off, or maybe the audio mixing, and it definitely feels weird that she seems to know immediately that it's flood infested. How does she know? And the cool part of Amber appearing was the mystery of wondering why it's here. A better compromise would have been having her crack the joke about the pilot being accurate with the jump (which would have some later horrific implications when you realize it's flood controlled). But if I had to choose between the two lines, I think the lines they went with on release were better.
A cool detail is that the opening cutscene to Outskirts is slightly modified. There are now odsts on the pelican, and in the cutscene they actually have a custom animation on them putting their helmet on. It’s a small detail, but a cool one.
This isn't the 'original' Halo 2 campaign, Halo 2 was radically different in development and there are entire levels, mechanics and story beats which are not very well known and can't be restored. None of this takes away from the great work Vadam did in restoring details from the cutting room floor, however this is not the 'original' Halo 2 campaign, it is a reinterpretation of the Halo 2 retail campaign.
@@gitupmechavvy2569 > As Expected, Palpatine doesn’t return. > First Order has captured Coruscant, Kylo Ren finds a secret Hologram map hidden by Palpatine, which explodes, forcing him to wear a mask for life support like Darth Vader > Rey has a duel-sided Lightsaber. Think Darth Maul but blue. > Rey and her gang has a big fight with the Knights of Ren, she uses the force to read their minds and finds out they killed her parents. She gets so mad she kills them with Force Lightning. Horrified of the Dark Side within her, she sets out on her own to find Kylo Ren. > Kylo Ren uses the coordinates he got to find a planet that has Darth Plagueis the Wise’s Master, some creepy spider thing. It teaches him how to Force-Drain Life Energy out of things. Kylo then kills him with this power. > Finn used his Stormtrooper origins to inspire the other Stormtroopers to rise up and help form a new resistance on Coruscant. > Luke’s Force Ghost talks to Kylo Ren, Kylo tries to swing him away with his Lightsaber and Luke uses his hand AS A FORCE GHOST to catch it. > Kylo Ren and Rey have a big fight. Rey gets blinded and nearly dies. She talks to Luke and tells him they made a mistake in ignoring the Dark Side, as their fear of it only made it stronger. > Rey speaks to Kylo through the force and convinces him to stop. He uses his Force Drain powers to heal Rey (eyes back) and reveals her full name is “Rey Solana” Kylo dies himself. > First Order defeated, Rey Solana builds a new Jedi Order and teaches them to master both sides of the Force to maintain balance.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 no that’s fine, anymore to add? Holy fuck.. I only asked because it was 2am and felt the impending doom coming if I took a minute to look it up followed by the soul crushing agony of what could of been but I merely postponed it… Star Wars is kill
The flood juggernaut should have been added because same concept as the MAW you're basically fighting the flood and the sentinels. But for anyone who played that little battle in that room just never felt right. I had expected something more than a small swarm since that room was so open lol
To be honest, I think the coolest thing would have been if the Forerunner Tank level had somehow been restored. I never thought it made sense how Chief just jumped into the water and got plucked out there, meaning anyone could have been grabbed at any time. And apparently, Gravemind had just been holding Chief in his tentacle for like a full day. Having Chief run around the lower levels of that structure that got glassed and use an ancient Forerunner weapon to mow through Sentinels would have actually made a LOT more sense.
I don't think there was enough level even created for it to be restored. I think they had storyboards and maybe some geometry but other than that Forerunner Tank was still just an idea.
all that was restored was what was in the game files, whole levels would need basically an SPV3 type deal where they create whole new geometry and then like custom campaigns make new scripts encounters and flags with whoever they can find to voice them, would be neat but also tough and to some jarring
man thinking about all the cpu power you would need to run this all back then, i can see why it was cut. also cortanas comment about the flood having great accuracy kinda lends to the lore they were establishing i think, hinting that the flood is able to easily use whatever equipment it comes across *including* a ship
(16:54) Correction: The Needler wielding sentinel is due to a bug with how squads were set up in Halo, on an old bungie forum post, someone asked about this sentinel on QZ and the Dev mistakenly thought it was one of their cut content and mentions a needler sentinel. The cut needler sentinel and the Needler wielding sentinel aren't related just coincidence! Vengeful Vadam explains it in one of Uncut Videos. (17:40)Also the elites speaking in unison is just soo good. I kinda wished it wasn't cut.
THIS is what a remaster should be. Adding cut content, updating graphics, making what wasn't possible then, possible now. Bringing the original dream back to fruition. The soulless remasters have nothing on this besides owning the IP, and just by right of passion, knowing, and bringing the dream to life, you have completely and utterly humbled the whole industry of gaming at this point. Bungie was the original dreamer, 343 was the nightmare, TheVengefulVadam is another addition to the dream!
3:12 I remember a game that did this, i THINK it was Area 51 on the ps2 which had chained melee animations. The first attack would be the standard gun-butt swipe you see in other games, but repeatedly hitting the button would result in the player just going to TOWN on the enemy with the rear end of their rifle
The smg is likely to be open bolt and have an empty mag catch for the bolt/sear, therefore not needing to be cycled when a new magazine is inserted - at most it would need a small bump to reset the magazine safety/stop, but even that could be engineered to deactivate with a hard mag insertion.
I was gonna say, I remember hearing Chips Dubbo’s response back in the original Halo 2 game. But I had to wait for a while for Regret to talk, and made sure the marines were alive for that
I am curious, what's different about the "stealth" encounter in the gas mining facility? You can stealth through that section in regular Halo 2, it's hard to do and not really worth it, but can be done. Great vid BTW! Loving your showcase of the uncut stuff!
Its crazy that these mods that are just original cuts from the first version somehow feel so much more natural to Halo 2, like they give a definite feel they were meant to be
I know its not relevent anymore but killzone 2 at least not sure in 1 but they did do a sort of melee animation where the animation changed if you kept hitting the button.
"Offensively little about" i swear thats the understatement of the century. Hoping to hell and back 1000x that 343 comes to their senses and gives us a horror-survival game set in the streets of high charity as the flood spreads and in the words of hidden himself, "the lights go out."
I would love a Halo 3 ODST style game set in High Charity starting with the great schism and ending with the flood taking control of the station. Maybe as an elite force trying to fight off the other factions, then trying to stop the flood, then getting decimated and having to find a ship to flee the station which is now a lost cause.
I mean, Plasma Repeater in Reach was supposed to mirror the Assault Rifle for the Elites. But it does fall flat in terms of damage, especially in TU rebalance. It looks cool AF though...
This is so beautiful! Halo 2 was already one of the best Halo games, and Vadam made it so much better. Absolutely beautiful! So much stuff cut now returned, it's just so amazing.
18:28 this is what I’ve always wanted, my only wish for Halo 2 was to have a Arbiter mission where you fought against the UNSC. Especially when you know they were present in the mission.
I didn’t know what Xbox live was as a kid. The amount of times I played through halo 2, countless. I imagine playing through this mod again almost makes the game feel “new” again. One day I will have a PC and experience this beauty
I have said and always will say, the modders of our Halo community is why this game continues to thrive, not 343 industries....Love to all of the modders out there for halo that have made it fantastic for us to play bringing our imagination or in this case cut content to life ❤
I mean I agree but you also need to give 343 some credit while yes it’s not the same they have added some pretty nice things to the halo franchise and they were also the ones to give the info and any surviving source code of most cut content to our modders
I disagree. I wouldn't be playing Halo for the first time ever this month if it weren't for Master Chief Collection on Steam... made by 343 industries. But we'll see how I feel about them once I reach Halo 4! 😂
-Thel: "There was only one ship." -Regret: "Are you sure?" -Thel: "Yes." -Mercy: "WHY WAS IT NOT DESTROYED WITH THE REST OF THEIR FLEET?!" -Thel: "It fled, as we set fire to their planet. I followed with all the ships in my command." -Regret: "When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?" -Thel: "Blinded?" -Regret: "Paralyzed? Dumb-struck?" --Thel: "NO." -Regret: "Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the sacred ring and *desecrate it with their filthy footsteps!"* -Thel: "Noble prophets, surely you understand that once the parasite attacked- (The court bursts into an uproar at such direct and personal questioning of the hierarchs themselves). -Mercy: "There will be order in this council!" -Truth: (enters between Mercy amd Regret and gently raises his hand to command order in the court) "You were right focus your attention on the Flood, but this demon, this Master Chief..." -Thel(now seeming more desperate to implore that he and the other prophets see the true reasoning of the nurerous, immense, untested, unknown and unpredictable threats and variables he was facing at the time of the Forerunner facility's destruction): "Once I had learned the demon's intent, *there was nothing I could do."* ("He's a traiter!" and many other unsavoury remarks about the Elite Zealot once again erupt from the sides of the great room, causing the imposing Brute Chieftain Tartarus himself to impetuously laugh at the rising political and social unrest from all who would consider themselves his 'betters', yet he does not.) -Regret(in private to Truth): "Noble prophet of Truth, this has gone on long enough! Make an example of this *_bungler!_** The council demands it!"* -Truth: "You are one of our most treasured instruments. Long have you lead your fleet with honor and distinction, but your inability to safeguard Halo was a colossal failure." -Prophet of Objection(voiced by the great Bob O'donnell himself😁): "Nay, it was HERESY!" -Thel(takes a moment to observe the room's social turmoil before calmly considering how best to respectfully speak up for himself in such a cinvoluted and bureaucratically charged circumstance): "I will continue my campaign against the humans." -Truth: "No! You will not." (Truth gestures to inform the Chirftain and his Brute guards that they are to now take Thel into custody. They move to do so, but Thel postures so as to inform them all that he most certainly _will not_ be lead out of the chamber by force, in front of the High Council or otherwise. The Brute Guard, Thel and Tartarus all exit the hall together, the Zealot pondering what sort of reprimands he must now endure in taking responsibility for his previous actions on the ring world.) -Truth(as the others are proceeding from the hall): "Soon the Great Journey will begin, but when it does, the weight of your heresy will stay your feet, and you shall be left behind." >>(Scene shifts to the Cairo MAC gun station in ordit around earth, in the armory with Chief, the Gunnery Sergeant and his southern accent) G.Sgt: "The plating wus abowt to fail, there's viscasity throughout the gel layer. Optics? Totally frad. And let's not even talk about the po'er supply. You have any idea how expensive this gear is, son?" -Master Chief: "Tell that to the Covenant." (If you've actually managed to read this far down, then I sincerely thank you for your time and attention. May you and your loved ones find peace, joy and love within the void. And may the good will of all the peoples of Middle Earth and the Force be with you all. God bless.)
5:23 no you don't I can play this in 720p 20-60fps just fine fine with a laptop equivalent of a Geforce 210. Heck I tested a GT 1030 with G-Sync thanks to DP 1.4 as a late inclusion, I got 3440x1440p 120-144hz. That is absolute perfection, especially since Halo 2 is just begging to be used in ultrawide. It is heavily and inadvertently designed for 21:9 from my personal testing. Keep your GTX 1050/1650/RX 6400 guys, it'll do Halo 2 Cartographer 4K just fine.
when you mentioned melee animations chaining together, i was immediately reminded of a Halo clone that came out in 2005 called Area-51. it was definitely one of the games of all time but all of its weapons had 3-hit melee combos you could do by holding the melee button. i just thought that was interesting
Would like to see the Arbiter mission on the first Halo's moon,or the level after Cairo Station on the covenant ship as originally planned. That is something that is very unlikely to come out.
At the start of Uprising, where Arbiter discovers the slain Councilors, I usually thought it was Arbiter himself who was delivering that first line about the Brute's betrayal, a bit of talking to himself under his breath out of shock. I think I once suspected it could have come from the first seemingly dead Elite you find, but chalked it up to animation limitations of the time. An Elite fittingly motionless after being left for dead, with only enough life left to give you a warning, without even the strength to prop himself up.
Bungie itself stated that they had originally intended to include more missions in the campaign . One of them was right after Cairo Station where Chief was going the destroy the Covenant capital from the inside ( instead of giving the covenant back their bomb as it was in the final products cutscene) . The second cut level was an extra chief mission called “ forerunner tank “ , and you were literally driving a forerunner tank until you reached the Gravemind . Also the last mission would had been taking place in New Mombasa like in Halo 3 .By Combining all this content together you get to see that Bungie had some BIG PLANS for this game .
Pretty cool all around, they're nearing the point of getting everything mechanically working that was intended for the the game. The next big hurdle and possibly the biggest outside of a whole cut level are the Stencil Shadows. That would be insane to see game wide!
If I had a nickle for every groundbreaking early 2000's fps sequel that had the entire game scraped and development restarted from the begining, I'd have two nickels.
This sounds like it's so close to making the complete Halo 2 experience. Now, if only the rest of the audio would dim when Cortana or other characters are talking.
4:30. Oh wow, we are very different. The Repeater is my favorite weapon in the game, using it with the infinite ammo skull feels so freaking good to use. That and the spartan laser are my favorite weapons to combine with infinite ammo.
Thank you so much!! 🥺
KING! Amazing job with the mod man, some of the most fun I've had playing classic Halo campaign in a hot minute
YOURE THE GOAT!!!!!!!
This is what makes Halo such a historic game series: people who are willing to go above and beyond the average and assemble such a wonderful work of love to this amazing game.
Thank you for your passion! I know the Halo devs probably have the same love for the game, but I hope the corporate overlords see how much the fans appreciate your work and loosen the reigns on 343 devs
Big G
They also cut a story element where it was established that Miranda Keyes is angry at Chief because she doesn't understand why he couldn't save her father. ONI kept all information on the Flood top secret and forbade Chief, Cortana and Johnson from telling anyone about it. Consequently, the true circumstances around Jacob Keyes's death were withheld from everyone including Miranda. Apparently Miranda was originally going to be really cold towards Chief until the 2nd half when she encounters the Flood and would have realized it wasn't his fault and that Chief did her father a favor by crushing his skull.
That would've been such an interesting dynamic! Then seeing them build more of a relationship into halo 3 would've been satisfying.
All she would have known is the Chief had killed her father, and she was going to get revenge by somehow using him as a sacrificial bomb against the Flood.
It's honestly a sub par story idea and better off cut.
@kassarc16 The way it was planned, with Miranda tricking Chief and trying to kill him basically, is absolute garbage, I agree. But the way OP described it sounds way better and I would be on board with it. Regardless, I'm happy we got Halo 2 the way it is!
Thank god they cut that out. It wouldn't make any sense.
I don't know when the expanded media came out that detailed how there were additional survivors from Halo CE (and explained how Johnson escaped), but originally, Chief and Cortana were the only two to make it out of there, with Johnson escaping on his own because plot armor. Everyone else on the PoA died as well. I don't think it would make much story sense, nor would it be fair, for her to be demanding why Chief couldn't save her father when he was unable to save _anyone._ Honestly, she would probably across as a "Del Rio" type character, and I don't think I've EVER heard anyone say he was a good character.
I dunno, I figure having that dynamic would just have players hating Miranda and I couldn't see this story arc doing her character any favors really.
@@Dylan-xx2tk They explained how Johnson survived in a book called First Strike that takes place immediately after the first Halo game. Him and other marines were in a pelican when the Halo exploded and Chief picked up their signal when scanning for other possible IFF tags and docked with them.
The original original version was going to have even more levels and The Arbiter and Chief banding together to fight Truth on earth at the end! That would've been epic😭
i can't believe they restored all this content. i wonder what Marty O'Donnell has to say about this, it would be so cool to hear his thoughts about this
Although if that had happened we probably wouldn’t have any more halos which some people would say is a good thing but I’m glad we’re still getting games even if they are… rough around the edges. Plus getting halo 3 odst and reach were indirectly caused by halo 2s rough development
Halo 3 wouldn't have been so good then
Honestly it sounds like we did end up getting that. Halo 3
So that's why the Outskirts mission has so many snipers and why they're so strong, you were meant to sneak past them while taking out the enemy silently with detection being punished by those aimbot snipers.
You could actually get out of the map a tad and run it like the sniper mission in CE. Although you won't have that massive ammo count so you'd be stuck with a beam rifle and sniper.
It didn't feel the same but it was close.
@@MOxMOxDAMONSTER yes Truth and Reconciliation
Quick! Someone tell the Act Man.
@@MOxMOxDAMONSTER Yeah I remember having to pull that trick with a friend just to get past the courtyard bit on Legendary because the snipers would just spawn in randomly and one shot ya.
Same as with Delta Halo, on your way to the Temple you can get out of the map too, only issue is that no enemies spawn and you cannot leave the level unless you drop back into an arena before the last checkpoint.
You can just parkour up a pipe to get on top the roofs and get the drop on the snipers
25:48 Thoses banshees desperatly trying to destroy a Pelican before it spread the infection even more is a very nice lttle detail
There's another one at the very beginning of high charity too. A pelican drops off some carrier forms, but I'd you keep watching, it flies off overhead of your spawn and you can watch a banshee desperately chase it into the lower city, it's so cool
It's in the bottom left corner for those having trouble finding it.
The fact that this game had such a rocky development and came out as probably the most successful addition to the franchise is still mind blowing to this day 😂😂😂
343 seems to be trying to repeatedly recreate the tension that brought H2 into existence…. and failing horribly at it everytime
@@mnrvaprjct Is that why we still haven't got a Halo 5? Or, with Infinite, would it be 6 now...?
@@CD-Gaming There is literally Halo 5: Guardians
@@TheBig451 I've never heard of that game before, I've heard of "5 Guardians", but with the Halo suffix? Are you sure? Nah, I would have seen it in the shops or on Xbox Live!
Other than pioneering console multiplayer Halo 2 is not the most successful addition to the franchise. Halo 3 sold better and honestly handled multiplayer better (especially custom games and forge). Halo Reach was also great in its own way, despite having a more controversial multiplayer it was a much more fully realized game than Halo 2.
The extra survivors on Sentinel Wall would have been such an amazing way to set the levels mood early on. Now that's not to say seeing the scattered bodies and the dialogue of the survivors didn't do a good job. But it really hits that much harder how dangerous your situation is when you gather up those survivors, feeling like you have a good sized and well equipped team, just to watch them all get cut down. Being left alone and caught between two enemies that tore through your allies like they were nothing.
Time stamp?
"What's next, Grunt Hierarchs?!"
"For all I have seen today, I would not be surprised."
10/10 exchange.
Definitely reminds me of the two elites who chat during the gondola ride in Quarantine Zone.
*Tatarus flights Phantom to harass the humans*
Elite #1 "That fool! He'll alert them to our presence!"
Elite #2 "Look on the bright side, maybe they'll shoot him down?"
Elites are the best Covenant race hands down
Hierarch of Monkey business?
wortwortwort
They totally predicted YapYap the Destroyer.
"it feels like a real plasma cannon"
fired a lot of those, have you?
Halo 2 will always be one of my favorite video games of all time. The story, the characters and the OST. I honestly couldn’t imagine it being better until now.
Tbf a lot of this isn't even as good as base Halo 2, so still waiting for someone to make a version that's better
This mod is interesting but regular Halo 2 will always be the GOAT.
someone tell marty
Same, Used to play it ages ago as a kid on the og Xbox
@@theshanamasterhe’s killing the marines marty!!
the fun thing about the jackal shield is that part of spartan training was to have them pick up the shields any time they came across them and in at least one of the books we actually see spartan 3s(i think) picking them up and strapping them on. i remember hearing rumors of the jackal shield supposedly making an appearance in every single game after combat evolved.
I just wish it was an actual thing in gameplay, both multiplayer and single. Would’ve been fun to mess with, forcing the enemy to change tactics on the spot, getting rid of enemy fire on you briefly. Urging you to rush them by having the sword and sheild on. Seriously that would be FUN!
I remember as a kid trying desperately to get the Wraith's mini-turrets to work, literally hours and hours pressing the most random button combinations refusing to believe I just couldn't
Also with trying to pilot the Shadow in Metropolis. Or the pelican you could flip in the same level. Or the phantom that's docked at the beginning of High Charity.
For real. The fact they have them work for NPCs but NOT YOU is fucking bullshit.
My boys, use the Unit Possession glitch to play as a marine or Elite and watch as your wraith can now use the mini secondary turrets. Not perfect but they absolutely work! 👌
I think I'm having a berenstein bears moment because I remember them working, I might be thinking of a halo:CE mod that added the halo 2 wraith though. I also don't remember the needler being bad. So who knows
@@GingerNingerGames I was certain if they worked for the NPC's they should for me, Nada. Same on the Needler tho
I genuinely felt disturbed at the part where it’s found out the flood spores were inside high charity life support systems, would also explain why the flood spread so fast, because they were inhaling the fungus, genuinely had my jaw dropped to the floor at that one..
The line "oh man, he is so dead" and "and people think I have a big head" are in the OG halo 2.
The grunts on the metropolis bridge are driving the cars with buggers one the top. It was in the files as text.
Vengeful Vadam said on one cid the Halo2 Relic was gonna have a shield and drop pods but were cut
"in one vid"
I remade Relic in Infinite forge and had both of those!
Thanks Vengeful Vadam for the inspiration of most of my Relic Remake!
I still remember beating halo 2 and one of the high council elites survived and was just chillin in middle of the cut scene
MY favorite moments in ANY Halo game was always having a small militia of forces following you and watching them fight. Halo 1, Assault on the Control Room, you could get up to 11 marines to that final moment when you see the hunters chasing them at the bottom of the canyon. Between that and the short bit where you have a marine army at the end of 343 Guilty Spark, I just loved the feel of fighting with a large force and trying to keep them all alive. Loved that stuff in every Halo game. It really makes it feel like a warzone rather than a one man army bashing through everything. Even just moments like in Truth and Reconciliation where Cortana calls in marine support to land inside the covenant hangar if all your initial forces die, feel really impactful towards making the game feel like a fight for survival. Just finding corpses around doesn't do it justice.
Hehe bro I'd often revert to the last checkpoint if I couldnt keep as many allies alive as I wanted XD. Like an extra challenge. It's also fun to find out that the allies can sometimes actually come with u way further into the level than you expected and still do their job!
@@JorisWeima Yeah, or there are moments where they won't follow, but if you manually push them past a certain point, they'll continue again. I remember doing some eird stuff like getting a marine filled warthog past the security checkpoint in Silent Cartographer where you see that gold elite, and if positioned a certain way, they'd sometimes survive the wipe that kills them all and even hill him in the cutscene. Or just get a warthog there to roadkill him. There was always something fun to do with them though. Really wish tehre was more focus on the marines. Infinite had a great opportunity for that and they squandered it.
@@ChaosWolf3 Haha thats fun stuff. And yes I fully agree on Infinite!
Rolling with a team of Marines armed with Beam Rifles was always a riot.
@@JorisWeima haha, same. on classic xbox after having beat the game a dozen times on legendary since it was my only game and i was on EI at the time that was the natural next step. Plus contextually, I always figured, you're the master chief, marines shouldn't die when you're around to back em up
10:32 you could already stealth that section, dude.
The ability to use Jackal Shields always struck me as an easy shoo-in feature.
Yeah! I frankly always wanted it in the games!
i know for a fact that my sisters would have dual-wielded them in co-op. they were pretty bad at halo games for a while. those shields would have let them be a tank now and then while i did the shooty parts.
The shields above the radar is something I desperately want the ability to put back. It doesn't have to be the default, but it was perfect because your eyes are constantly glancing there...meaning you look to one spot for both points of info. It's not weird. It was the best IMO.
It was a ui change that made perfect sense!
The BR melee and SMG reload animations are amazing. If they were in the final game they would have set more FPS industry trends for the better
i was today years old when I found out about the h2 melee. Why hasnt 343 added this back to halo it looks so damn smooth
@@Green-IV Expecting 343 to add something WITHOUT some kind of gain behind it...
@@cursedhawkins1305 Yeah money talks but theyre only in that position because of not adding what we wanted in the first place so maybe learning the hard way is what they outta do to fix what they broke to begin with
you reap what you sow
@@Green-IV The problem I see with the whole "not adding what we wanted" when it comes to an entire community is that it can easily alienate that community, I mean look at what happened with Halo 4's launch and the leak prior, people didn't want to believe there was ADS or sprint in the game but the game launches and both of those were in the public release which caused a massive uproar.
@@cursedhawkins1305 Yeah well ADS is sure as f*ck not what we wanted most nor requested, I cant speak for the sweaty nerds playing H4 and H5 all day who wanted the game to play in their favor or at least preference, but as far as I can remember 'what we wanted' consisted of many things aside from the way the sights looked when you zoomed lmao- at least before that became an issue- the fact that it is is again 343s fault. You dont have to add that shit. The reason its all ppl talk about when they do, is because its all they have to talk about. And bcuz thos eppl are newbies they attracted via selling Halo Incorrectly lol
If they were actually adding content to the game, some of these problems wouldnt have so much weight- H5 proved that
pelicans, where tf are they already???
a file browser that works let alone exists in the game- its been roughly 14 years since we had one lol and thats just a quality of life feature
*Also commendations: in reach they gave xp and there o loads for MP, Campaign, and firefight, halo 4 had that feature if I recall correctly
I could go on but my goddamn essay has had you read enough so Ill leave it at that
When I tell people I think cut content would be a great way to monitize MCC I absolutely mean it. Seeing cut content like this would be incredible, can be optional, and acts as a great way to add additional content that's 100% worth paying for.
I weep for the e3 Mombasa streets we never got.
I would literally pay to play the E3 '03 demo. And that earth aesthetic was so much friggin' cooler, and actually felt futuristic.
Yo for real, that demo trailer lives rent-free in my brain
3:20 just gotta throw FEAR out there for melee in a FPS.
I like a lot of what's been done here. Some of the cut dialogue especially is pretty nice, like Cortana's messages about what's going on in High Charity during the infection. However, and hopefully not to come across as rude, I don't think the line Cortana mentions about In Amber Clad being flood controlled worked well. The delivery seemed off, or maybe the audio mixing, and it definitely feels weird that she seems to know immediately that it's flood infested. How does she know? And the cool part of Amber appearing was the mystery of wondering why it's here. A better compromise would have been having her crack the joke about the pilot being accurate with the jump (which would have some later horrific implications when you realize it's flood controlled). But if I had to choose between the two lines, I think the lines they went with on release were better.
10:30 you already can do that in Halo 2 without the mod
3:40 multiple reload animations depending if you empty the mag or not has always been in the game though.
Still want to play that e3 demo of H2😢
8:45 wait that's not the drone driving it, a grunt is in the drivers seat of those cars and the drones are the turrets!! :O
Not gonna lie about that but it's so cool and funny 😀😅
A cool detail is that the opening cutscene to Outskirts is slightly modified. There are now odsts on the pelican, and in the cutscene they actually have a custom animation on them putting their helmet on. It’s a small detail, but a cool one.
Glad to see mod makers making the dreams for halo 2 bungie had a reality.
How do you play this on Steams MCC?
This isn't the 'original' Halo 2 campaign, Halo 2 was radically different in development and there are entire levels, mechanics and story beats which are not very well known and can't be restored.
None of this takes away from the great work Vadam did in restoring details from the cutting room floor, however this is not the 'original' Halo 2 campaign, it is a reinterpretation of the Halo 2 retail campaign.
This video actually opened my eyes to how much we missed out on cut masterpieces
Speaking of which, you should check out the original Star Wars Episode 9 Script.
@@jakespacepiratee3740can I get a quick rundown?
@@gitupmechavvy2569 > As Expected, Palpatine doesn’t return.
> First Order has captured Coruscant, Kylo Ren finds a secret Hologram map hidden by Palpatine, which explodes, forcing him to wear a mask for life support like Darth Vader
> Rey has a duel-sided Lightsaber. Think Darth Maul but blue.
> Rey and her gang has a big fight with the Knights of Ren, she uses the force to read their minds and finds out they killed her parents. She gets so mad she kills them with Force Lightning. Horrified of the Dark Side within her, she sets out on her own to find Kylo Ren.
> Kylo Ren uses the coordinates he got to find a planet that has Darth Plagueis the Wise’s Master, some creepy spider thing. It teaches him how to Force-Drain Life Energy out of things. Kylo then kills him with this power.
> Finn used his Stormtrooper origins to inspire the other Stormtroopers to rise up and help form a new resistance on Coruscant.
> Luke’s Force Ghost talks to Kylo Ren, Kylo tries to swing him away with his Lightsaber and Luke uses his hand AS A FORCE GHOST to catch it.
> Kylo Ren and Rey have a big fight. Rey gets blinded and nearly dies. She talks to Luke and tells him they made a mistake in ignoring the Dark Side, as their fear of it only made it stronger.
> Rey speaks to Kylo through the force and convinces him to stop. He uses his Force Drain powers to heal Rey (eyes back) and reveals her full name is “Rey Solana” Kylo dies himself.
> First Order defeated, Rey Solana builds a new Jedi Order and teaches them to master both sides of the Force to maintain balance.
@@gitupmechavvy2569 sorry that may have been longer than expected. I just think we were robbed.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 no that’s fine, anymore to add? Holy fuck.. I only asked because it was 2am and felt the impending doom coming if I took a minute to look it up followed by the soul crushing agony of what could of been but I merely postponed it… Star Wars is kill
9:52
.... so basically the sound file for the chaingun mounted on warthogs.
The flood juggernaut should have been added because same concept as the MAW you're basically fighting the flood and the sentinels. But for anyone who played that little battle in that room just never felt right. I had expected something more than a small swarm since that room was so open lol
To be honest, I think the coolest thing would have been if the Forerunner Tank level had somehow been restored. I never thought it made sense how Chief just jumped into the water and got plucked out there, meaning anyone could have been grabbed at any time. And apparently, Gravemind had just been holding Chief in his tentacle for like a full day. Having Chief run around the lower levels of that structure that got glassed and use an ancient Forerunner weapon to mow through Sentinels would have actually made a LOT more sense.
I don't think there was enough level even created for it to be restored. I think they had storyboards and maybe some geometry but other than that Forerunner Tank was still just an idea.
It was all just drafted not actually coded/greyboxed
all that was restored was what was in the game files, whole levels would need basically an SPV3 type deal where they create whole new geometry and then like custom campaigns make new scripts encounters and flags with whoever they can find to voice them, would be neat but also tough and to some jarring
man thinking about all the cpu power you would need to run this all back then, i can see why it was cut. also cortanas comment about the flood having great accuracy kinda lends to the lore they were establishing i think, hinting that the flood is able to easily use whatever equipment it comes across *including* a ship
(16:54) Correction: The Needler wielding sentinel is due to a bug with how squads were set up in Halo, on an old bungie forum post, someone asked about this sentinel on QZ and the Dev mistakenly thought it was one of their cut content and mentions a needler sentinel. The cut needler sentinel and the Needler wielding sentinel aren't related just coincidence! Vengeful Vadam explains it in one of Uncut Videos.
(17:40)Also the elites speaking in unison is just soo good. I kinda wished it wasn't cut.
THIS is what a remaster should be. Adding cut content, updating graphics, making what wasn't possible then, possible now. Bringing the original dream back to fruition. The soulless remasters have nothing on this besides owning the IP, and just by right of passion, knowing, and bringing the dream to life, you have completely and utterly humbled the whole industry of gaming at this point. Bungie was the original dreamer, 343 was the nightmare, TheVengefulVadam is another addition to the dream!
3:12 I remember a game that did this, i THINK it was Area 51 on the ps2 which had chained melee animations. The first attack would be the standard gun-butt swipe you see in other games, but repeatedly hitting the button would result in the player just going to TOWN on the enemy with the rear end of their rifle
The smg is likely to be open bolt and have an empty mag catch for the bolt/sear, therefore not needing to be cycled when a new magazine is inserted - at most it would need a small bump to reset the magazine safety/stop, but even that could be engineered to deactivate with a hard mag insertion.
I was gonna say, I remember hearing Chips Dubbo’s response back in the original Halo 2 game. But I had to wait for a while for Regret to talk, and made sure the marines were alive for that
I am curious, what's different about the "stealth" encounter in the gas mining facility? You can stealth through that section in regular Halo 2, it's hard to do and not really worth it, but can be done.
Great vid BTW! Loving your showcase of the uncut stuff!
I miss being a kid and playing halo 2 for the first time and my goodness the wait for it to be released felt like an eternity
8:51 - drones are riding on top but grunts are driving...
Me: *watching the Xbox Developer Recap video*
UA-cam: New HiddenXperia Video
Me: * immediately changes channel*
Timed it just right 😎
Read the title and clicked so fast 😂😂
Hit that Bell and Notifications hooked it up, baby. 😎
Based
Its crazy that these mods that are just original cuts from the first version somehow feel so much more natural to Halo 2, like they give a definite feel they were meant to be
Looks like the drones rode on top of the cars while grunts drove
3:20 Area 51 on the OG xbox had chained/ animated melee attacks. It looked so good. I remember when the halo 2 e3 ttailer showed it off, too
Finished playing the mod earlier this week with a friend who I met online on Halo 2 twenty years ago. It was awesome. Loved the warthog run
I know its not relevent anymore but killzone 2 at least not sure in 1 but they did do a sort of melee animation where the animation changed if you kept hitting the button.
"Offensively little about" i swear thats the understatement of the century. Hoping to hell and back 1000x that 343 comes to their senses and gives us a horror-survival game set in the streets of high charity as the flood spreads and in the words of hidden himself, "the lights go out."
I would love a Halo 3 ODST style game set in High Charity starting with the great schism and ending with the flood taking control of the station. Maybe as an elite force trying to fight off the other factions, then trying to stop the flood, then getting decimated and having to find a ship to flee the station which is now a lost cause.
@@R462venom absolutely! The potential is lightyears deep!
8:45 To be clear, Grunts are driving the cars. Drones are just acting as their "turret"
That weird BR/DMR hybrid honestly doesn't even scratch the DMR itch. Doesn't have that punch feeling.
This man is the reason soyjacks get drawn
Drones driving cars? Nope those be grunts in those cars.
Except, the legs of Grunts are too short to actually reach the Breaks and Throttle.
I mean, Plasma Repeater in Reach was supposed to mirror the Assault Rifle for the Elites. But it does fall flat in terms of damage, especially in TU rebalance. It looks cool AF though...
In vanilla, the dying elite on Uprising does actually have an animated mouth but this only animates if you melee him first for some reason.
There are actually grunts driving the cars! The drones are just on the roof shooting😂
16:26 Damn, that Kig-Yar is running cutely
20:54 I thought the same. Very very good voice acting.
Maybe I'm just weird, but a cutscene with the Arbiter killing Tartarus like he did to Truth in Halo 3 seems kind of cool.
It's actually insane how much cooler this is than Vanilla H2.
This is so beautiful! Halo 2 was already one of the best Halo games, and Vadam made it so much better. Absolutely beautiful! So much stuff cut now returned, it's just so amazing.
27:30 grunt hierarchs💀
The beauty of Halo coming to PC at it's finest.
18:28 this is what I’ve always wanted, my only wish for Halo 2 was to have a Arbiter mission where you fought against the UNSC. Especially when you know they were present in the mission.
I didn’t know what Xbox live was as a kid. The amount of times I played through halo 2, countless. I imagine playing through this mod again almost makes the game feel “new” again. One day I will have a PC and experience this beauty
actually in metropolice, its grunts driving the cars while the drones just sit on the roof.
I have said and always will say, the modders of our Halo community is why this game continues to thrive, not 343 industries....Love to all of the modders out there for halo that have made it fantastic for us to play bringing our imagination or in this case cut content to life ❤
I mean I agree but you also need to give 343 some credit while yes it’s not the same they have added some pretty nice things to the halo franchise and they were also the ones to give the info and any surviving source code of most cut content to our modders
I disagree. I wouldn't be playing Halo for the first time ever this month if it weren't for Master Chief Collection on Steam... made by 343 industries. But we'll see how I feel about them once I reach Halo 4! 😂
@@Wolficefang 🤣🤣
I loved playing Halo 2 as a kid, and seeing the cut content come back to life is heartwarming.
The power of fan work is really something. Noticed it since CE time.
There was a lot of cut content, it’s really cool seeing it in the light!🙂
I refuse to believe the Master Chief is uncut
Wtf istg i remember all of the cut Cortana dialogue from High Charity not being cut
-Thel: "There was only one ship."
-Regret: "Are you sure?"
-Thel: "Yes."
-Mercy: "WHY WAS IT NOT DESTROYED WITH THE REST OF THEIR FLEET?!"
-Thel: "It fled, as we set fire to their planet. I followed with all the ships in my command."
-Regret: "When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?"
-Thel: "Blinded?"
-Regret: "Paralyzed? Dumb-struck?"
--Thel: "NO."
-Regret: "Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the sacred ring and *desecrate it with their filthy footsteps!"*
-Thel: "Noble prophets, surely you understand that once the parasite attacked- (The court bursts into an uproar at such direct and personal questioning of the hierarchs themselves).
-Mercy: "There will be order in this council!"
-Truth: (enters between Mercy amd Regret and gently raises his hand to command order in the court) "You were right focus your attention on the Flood, but this demon, this Master Chief..."
-Thel(now seeming more desperate to implore that he and the other prophets see the true reasoning of the nurerous, immense, untested, unknown and unpredictable threats and variables he was facing at the time of the Forerunner facility's destruction): "Once I had learned the demon's intent, *there was nothing I could do."*
("He's a traiter!" and many other unsavoury remarks about the Elite Zealot once again erupt from the sides of the great room, causing the imposing Brute Chieftain Tartarus himself to impetuously laugh at the rising political and social unrest from all who would consider themselves his 'betters', yet he does not.)
-Regret(in private to Truth): "Noble prophet of Truth, this has gone on long enough! Make an example of this *_bungler!_** The council demands it!"*
-Truth: "You are one of our most treasured instruments. Long have you lead your fleet with honor and distinction, but your inability to safeguard Halo was a colossal failure."
-Prophet of Objection(voiced by the great Bob O'donnell himself😁): "Nay, it was HERESY!"
-Thel(takes a moment to observe the room's social turmoil before calmly considering how best to respectfully speak up for himself in such a cinvoluted and bureaucratically charged circumstance): "I will continue my campaign against the humans."
-Truth: "No! You will not."
(Truth gestures to inform the Chirftain and his Brute guards that they are to now take Thel into custody. They move to do so, but Thel postures so as to inform them all that he most certainly _will not_ be lead out of the chamber by force, in front of the High Council or otherwise. The Brute Guard, Thel and Tartarus all exit the hall together, the Zealot pondering what sort of reprimands he must now endure in taking responsibility for his previous actions on the ring world.)
-Truth(as the others are proceeding from the hall): "Soon the Great Journey will begin, but when it does, the weight of your heresy will stay your feet, and you shall be left behind."
>>(Scene shifts to the Cairo MAC gun station in ordit around earth, in the armory with Chief, the Gunnery Sergeant and his southern accent)
G.Sgt: "The plating wus abowt to fail, there's viscasity throughout the gel layer. Optics? Totally frad. And let's not even talk about the po'er supply. You have any idea how expensive this gear is, son?"
-Master Chief: "Tell that to the Covenant."
(If you've actually managed to read this far down, then I sincerely thank you for your time and attention. May you and your loved ones find peace, joy and love within the void. And may the good will of all the peoples of Middle Earth and the Force be with you all. God bless.)
5:23 no you don't I can play this in 720p 20-60fps just fine fine with a laptop equivalent of a Geforce 210. Heck I tested a GT 1030 with G-Sync thanks to DP 1.4 as a late inclusion, I got 3440x1440p 120-144hz. That is absolute perfection, especially since Halo 2 is just begging to be used in ultrawide. It is heavily and inadvertently designed for 21:9 from my personal testing. Keep your GTX 1050/1650/RX 6400 guys, it'll do Halo 2 Cartographer 4K just fine.
Would love to see this with the remake style
they cut the dialogue because it's redundant. You can SEE what's happening to High Charity, you don't need it parroted back at you.
when you mentioned melee animations chaining together, i was immediately reminded of a Halo clone that came out in 2005 called Area-51. it was definitely one of the games of all time but all of its weapons had 3-hit melee combos you could do by holding the melee button. i just thought that was interesting
That was a really decent one-off shooter! Great voice cast too
Another beautiful video to watch for my nightshift while playing mcc on my rog ally keep up the amazing work Spartan
Would like to see the Arbiter mission on the first Halo's moon,or the level after Cairo Station on the covenant ship as originally planned. That is something that is very unlikely to come out.
At the start of Uprising, where Arbiter discovers the slain Councilors, I usually thought it was Arbiter himself who was delivering that first line about the Brute's betrayal, a bit of talking to himself under his breath out of shock.
I think I once suspected it could have come from the first seemingly dead Elite you find, but chalked it up to animation limitations of the time. An Elite fittingly motionless after being left for dead, with only enough life left to give you a warning, without even the strength to prop himself up.
A beltload of Jackal Shields was how Spartans fought before MJOLJIR got its own shield generator.
There’s a grunt driving the car with a drone mounted on top
Bungie itself stated that they had originally intended to include more missions in the campaign . One of them was right after Cairo Station where Chief was going the destroy the Covenant capital from the inside ( instead of giving the covenant back their bomb as it was in the final products cutscene) . The second cut level was an extra chief mission called “ forerunner tank “ , and you were literally driving a forerunner tank until you reached the Gravemind . Also the last mission would had been taking place in New Mombasa like in Halo 3 .By Combining all this content together you get to see that Bungie had some BIG PLANS for this game .
That restoration already has been done. It's called Halo 3: ODST.
Pretty cool all around, they're nearing the point of getting everything mechanically working that was intended for the the game.
The next big hurdle and possibly the biggest outside of a whole cut level are the Stencil Shadows.
That would be insane to see game wide!
If I had a nickle for every groundbreaking early 2000's fps sequel that had the entire game scraped and development restarted from the begining, I'd have two nickels.
This sounds like it's so close to making the complete Halo 2 experience. Now, if only the rest of the audio would dim when Cortana or other characters are talking.
8:50 it's so much better than drones driving cars... ITS GRUNTS in the driver's seat!
you can literally see his speech impediment lol
Chaos breeds innovation. 343 lacks this chaos because they keep firing every contractor who's eventually figured it out. 😂
" _HALO 2 is the greatst video game ever created!_ "
*LAUGHS HARD FOR 40 SECONDS* - Oh shit, you're serious?
It's nowhere even close.
Chips Dubbo has fought and died through several battles but always manages to come back
The line where chips dubbo says "he is so dead" is in the og halo 2. I just heard it while playing it last night
4:30. Oh wow, we are very different. The Repeater is my favorite weapon in the game, using it with the infinite ammo skull feels so freaking good to use. That and the spartan laser are my favorite weapons to combine with infinite ammo.
Can't believe they uncircumcised Halo 2
8:44 Wait, what? That is awesome! 😂 They are able to cling to vehicles in the base game though, so I see it.
This excessive unessesary commentary is really testing my patience.
8:44 them grunts and drones have drip