Be sure to keep an eye out for our official Digsite release of Earth City, releasing this November 9th on Steam Workshop (playable) and GitHub (source data and tags). x.com/neoteaika/status/1842726446621745326
No Joke! Crazy to think what we may have gotten if they'd delayed the game a year(almost exactly!) completed it to their original vision and then released it as a 360 launch title. It's hard to say if that would have been better than what we got overall(meaning H3), but very interesting!
Well on other hand Xbox 360 got released year before the competitors so having Halo 2 as launch title wasnt even needed even though ofc it could have boosted early 360 sales even more. Also Im glad that even with its faults Halo 2 got released as part of the best year ever in gaming that was 2004
Honestly, had Bungie opted to make a spinoff series of a more cartoony version of Halo as a side project to keep the Microsoft publishers happy, while they had a devoted team working on the next actual main line halo game, which would’ve been Halo 2, I think it would have definitely been a successful launch on the 360 as well. But Halo 3 would never have existed and would never have became the golden age of Halo to every gamer out there. I think this is a powerful lesson for any game developer studio out there. Learn from Bungie and their mistakes. How they bounced back after Myth, and Made Halo. How they left Microsoft, signed a contract with Activision and made Destiny. And then slowly but surely grinding their own reputation into the dirt. And all of a sudden they are reviving their long lost creation, Marathon. I’m curious to see if they can indeed bounce back again or will this be their One, and Last, Final Effort.
This Halo 2004 City Lights Aestethic is what we need for the next Halo's. The lighting, the Sunset Sky, the cyberpunk-esque kinda style, the textures. THIS is Halo in a Earth enviroment!!
We propably wouldn't have had an odst then. They developed odst in 1 year and had much trouble getting a city like it actually has, don't even want to think about how painful such a mega structure would be to design. Making ODST most likely was a decision because bungie knew that they could manage to do such a small game within a small time period with the already existing Halo 3 engine and with the mega structure odst would have been not in the city at all or at least without its semi open world. (remember, odst only exists because Microsoft forced bungie to do another 3 halo titles)
Wow, I never saw this level of quality before. This looks amazing. It really is a shame Bungie couldn't entirely fulfill their vision for Halo 2. Here's hoping the community can put their heads together to make it happen. Covenant ship, Forerunner tank, Miranda having a grudge against MC, etc. Fingers crossed. 🤞
I think at least their vision for new mombasa was realized in ODST- it features a lot of the design language that started here in the E3 demo, fleshed out with tons of different aspects and setpieces throughout the cityscape.
So, this corrected video was made from my upscale. I interpolated this video up to 60fps using flowframes just so it's easier on the eyes to notice the details. I've been working towards making an upscaled archive of all halo promo media, I've currently done about 90 videos already.
Most of it was wasn't in real-time and the parts that were, were held together with bubblegum and paperclips. When it came out, it was something of a controversy.
This is exactly how I remember it when I was 13 watching this during E3!! Never found a clear quality like this since then thank you for uploading this I feel like a kid again! What it would've been like if Bungie was able to pull this off with the time constraints they had for Halo 2! 💯🔥🔥
Love how helpful all the marines are!!! This is my first time watching the entire demo. Only seen snippets in the Halo 2 Collector's Edition Documentary
The amount of blood in here is amazing, very close to Halo CE levels of blood. I wish we had this in retail. I am surprised most modders did not up the blood amount when working on their mods. That is the first thing I would do instantly.
I wass at the HCS and saw both the demo and recreation. Honestly, the demo that Sketch played looked a little low poly than I remember. Not only that, but this looks better than what they played. And the Digsite recreation looks amazing!
You know if we lived in a better timeline, Halo Studios would get the digsite team to find more shit out about the old Halo 2 and work to release what they have, and try to build what is missing. I'd buy that for $70 fs, but idk if Microsoft would let them talk to Bungie veterans about what it was like.
even if the final game was heavily downgraded in comparisson to the E3 tech demo, damn, the final product was really good and one of the best games ever made (Man, AI in good hands offers us this kind of videos)
Yeah, same. Like, why would you STACK a city like that? I remember watching this as a kid and being really confused seeing that. The low quality back then didn’t do any favors, but I thought it might have been a perspective thing.
It's a futuristic thing. Basically showing off humans mastering building megastructures on a nanoscopic degree which is the only possible way to keep structures to that scale that big from falling apart according to the laws of physics. And it's built on several stable platforms that stack by larger layers that branches out like a mushroom or tree.
Yeah, original uploader used an upscaler + frame interpolation. I still find it to be the clearest general version available one scaled down to 480p, though, some artifacts are definitely present. Ultimately just wanted to share a reasonably higher quality alternative to the other footage out there, that closer represents the visual coloring we know the build to actually have, when played directly. Cheers!
I hope 343i/Halo Woke Studios or whatever they call themselves don't try to do this even if it is just a trailer and we never got it. I know they are going to crap all over it.
343 sucks and ruined halo, their games are cartoony and only little kids/nerds think otherwise. 🙄 bungie and the call of duty devs will always be the masters of art, beauty and war!! ✝️😎
@@themindfulmoron3790 Nah, complaining about 343 gets likes. The kids who post this probably never actually grew up with this stuff and just parrot what popular UA-camrs say.
Halo 2 anniversary is cartoony like kids toy land, everything from bungie - destiny 2 and from og cod4 - infinite warfare looks far more realistic and beautiful.
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Be sure to keep an eye out for our official Digsite release of Earth City, releasing this November 9th on Steam Workshop (playable) and GitHub (source data and tags).
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Mod only for pc or xbox free contnent update?
vow this.
@@JuanManuelVargasPereaGamer-i9p sorry? I don’t understand your answare 😅
@@andreapaiola1409 : v
Really feels like this Halo 2 could've led the launch of the 360.
No Joke! Crazy to think what we may have gotten if they'd delayed the game a year(almost exactly!) completed it to their original vision and then released it as a 360 launch title. It's hard to say if that would have been better than what we got overall(meaning H3), but very interesting!
@@0neWhoKnocksyes. People thought this back in the day.
With aim like this, chief would be launched in no time. That I can guarantee.
Halo 2 still the best halo of all
Well on other hand Xbox 360 got released year before the competitors so having Halo 2 as launch title wasnt even needed even though ofc it could have boosted early 360 sales even more.
Also Im glad that even with its faults Halo 2 got released as part of the best year ever in gaming that was 2004
Could you imagine if the game was delayed to 2005 and ended up becoming a launch title for the Xbox 360?
Too long of a wait while Sony was clawing back market share in 2003.
@@Ryan_Christopher unfortunately you're correct, but still would've been awesome 💯
Honestly, had Bungie opted to make a spinoff series of a more cartoony version of Halo as a side project to keep the Microsoft publishers happy, while they had a devoted team working on the next actual main line halo game, which would’ve been Halo 2, I think it would have definitely been a successful launch on the 360 as well.
But Halo 3 would never have existed and would never have became the golden age of Halo to every gamer out there.
I think this is a powerful lesson for any game developer studio out there. Learn from Bungie and their mistakes. How they bounced back after Myth, and Made Halo. How they left Microsoft, signed a contract with Activision and made Destiny. And then slowly but surely grinding their own reputation into the dirt.
And all of a sudden they are reviving their long lost creation, Marathon.
I’m curious to see if they can indeed bounce back again or will this be their One, and Last, Final Effort.
They were ambitious back in Halo 2’s early development. Even though they didn’t stick with the original plan they sure as hell stuck the landing. 🔥
This Halo 2004 City Lights Aestethic is what we need for the next Halo's. The lighting, the Sunset Sky, the cyberpunk-esque kinda style, the textures. THIS is Halo in a Earth enviroment!!
Mombasa being built like that is so cool. And if that had been kept then halo odst would've had that
We propably wouldn't have had an odst then.
They developed odst in 1 year and had much trouble getting a city like it actually has, don't even want to think about how painful such a mega structure would be to design.
Making ODST most likely was a decision because bungie knew that they could manage to do such a small game within a small time period with the already existing Halo 3 engine and with the mega structure odst would have been not in the city at all or at least without its semi open world.
(remember, odst only exists because Microsoft forced bungie to do another 3 halo titles)
@@SilverViper1000And thank God they did. Gameplay, story, ost, atmosphere was miles better than Reach.
Ah that city in the intro finally looks like it's intentional and not a glitch!
I really love the dialogue in this demo better than the final game. “Hey, Parsons, is it clear?” “You tell me!” always makes me smile.
Stencil shadow halo 2 looks pretty cool!
Wow, I never saw this level of quality before. This looks amazing. It really is a shame Bungie couldn't entirely fulfill their vision for Halo 2. Here's hoping the community can put their heads together to make it happen. Covenant ship, Forerunner tank, Miranda having a grudge against MC, etc. Fingers crossed. 🤞
There's a mod for MCC called "Halo 2: Uncut" that adds a lot of cut content you should check it out!
I think at least their vision for new mombasa was realized in ODST- it features a lot of the design language that started here in the E3 demo, fleshed out with tons of different aspects and setpieces throughout the cityscape.
It's still one of the best games of all time
Watching it over and over again when I was younger I could have sworn it was as clear as it is today!! This came out perfect!!
This probably wasn't running at 60fps but I'm sure some Bungie developer somewhere is flattered.
So, this corrected video was made from my upscale. I interpolated this video up to 60fps using flowframes just so it's easier on the eyes to notice the details.
I've been working towards making an upscaled archive of all halo promo media, I've currently done about 90 videos already.
The game ran at 30 on the original Xbox
Most of it was wasn't in real-time and the parts that were, were held together with bubblegum and paperclips. When it came out, it was something of a controversy.
There were no 60 fps games on the original Xbox. I'm pretty sure the 360 also ran on 30 fps
@thomasjones3206 untrue most racing and sport games ran at 60. Red dead revolver, darkwatch, and Ninja Gaiden Black as well, to name a few.
That game looks amazing, I hope it comes out soon...
I'm in tears.
#BringHaloModsToXbox #MartyODonnellShouldComposeHaloUnrealRemake
Insanely cool! Thanks for doing this!
This is exactly how I remember it when I was 13 watching this during E3!! Never found a clear quality like this since then thank you for uploading this I feel like a kid again! What it would've been like if Bungie was able to pull this off with the time constraints they had for Halo 2! 💯🔥🔥
Love how helpful all the marines are!!! This is my first time watching the entire demo. Only seen snippets in the Halo 2 Collector's Edition Documentary
Really cool bit of trivia. Wasn’t aware of these video differences. Thanks for the writeup.
I feel like I’m watching an old cartoon THANK YOU SO MUC
I like the actual opening cutscene much better, but the wounded soldiers in the tents... It's a shame this didn't make it into the final game.
The amount of blood in here is amazing, very close to Halo CE levels of blood. I wish we had this in retail. I am surprised most modders did not up the blood amount when working on their mods. That is the first thing I would do instantly.
Even if the Modders could, would it been possible?
I wass at the HCS and saw both the demo and recreation. Honestly, the demo that Sketch played looked a little low poly than I remember. Not only that, but this looks better than what they played. And the Digsite recreation looks amazing!
21 years later this still gives me goosebumps, so much better than what actually made it into the release build.
The materials have a nice pop to them. Everything looks more alive. What Halo 2 could've been
That ending still gives me goosebumps.
You know if we lived in a better timeline, Halo Studios would get the digsite team to find more shit out about the old Halo 2 and work to release what they have, and try to build what is missing. I'd buy that for $70 fs, but idk if Microsoft would let them talk to Bungie veterans about what it was like.
This is the Battle Rifle we should've gotten..
No way. Besides, we eventually got the DMR with Reach.
Anyone else remember the trailer being on Halo CE's disc in the extras section? That got me so hyped for Halo 2!
This was included in some halo one copies
Thanks for this. Been watching this badass demo every now and then since I was a kid. I've never seen it look this clear before, damn fine work.
Fuck i haven't seen this game since 2007.... One of the best games ever made, 100%.
Pretty sure I still have the disc that came with Xbox Magazine that has this on it. Great upload!
WHOA LOOKS SO GREAT 💖
This how I looked at halo 2 when I was a kid
Man how in the earth you found this? holy crap. I wonder this Same from another games, such as valve software games.
Gorgeous.
ITS AWESOME
buy now.
Yay I'm helping 😄
Imagine a Halo 2 remake, but whit the original idea.
AWESOME
even if the final game was heavily downgraded in comparisson to the E3 tech demo, damn, the final product was really good and one of the best games ever made (Man, AI in good hands offers us this kind of videos)
I hope digsite can get this working!
I need the single shot BR
It would be dope if someone recreated this in Unreal
THANK YOU
blessed
How does this compare to the demo video on the Halo 1 soundtrack DVD?
Wow buen trabajo :)
#BringSplitScreenToPCHalo
Never understood the floating city
Yeah, same. Like, why would you STACK a city like that? I remember watching this as a kid and being really confused seeing that.
The low quality back then didn’t do any favors, but I thought it might have been a perspective thing.
It's a futuristic thing. Basically showing off humans mastering building megastructures on a nanoscopic degree which is the only possible way to keep structures to that scale that big from falling apart according to the laws of physics.
And it's built on several stable platforms that stack by larger layers that branches out like a mushroom or tree.
That's what people back than imagined futuristic cities. I am glad they in the end picked a humanity which isn't as futuristic but brutalistic.
Would like to see it remaster this year or next
#Fire343 , then hire you guys, cuz this is a banger. 🎉
Como es posible que esto se vea mejor que el producto final?
Amigazo, esto tenia que entrar en la Xbox original.... Un sistema muy limitado....
So wait is New Mombasa supposed to be floating or something ?
Why they didn´t include this level in the final game? And why nodoby leaks this build?
I dont remember this scene...(?)
What is the name of the halo 2 song at the end
🙌🏼
coloured corrected?
Was it upscaled with ai? Theres some weird artifacts here n there
Yeah, original uploader used an upscaler + frame interpolation.
I still find it to be the clearest general version available one scaled down to 480p, though, some artifacts are definitely present.
Ultimately just wanted to share a reasonably higher quality alternative to the other footage out there, that closer represents the visual coloring we know the build to actually have, when played directly.
Cheers!
@@NeoTeAika It does look quite clear
SEMI AUTO BR
Halo 2's campaign really was supposed to be something special, wasn't it.
Smoke and mirrors
I hope 343i/Halo Woke Studios or whatever they call themselves don't try to do this even if it is just a trailer and we never got it. I know they are going to crap all over it.
343 sucks and ruined halo, their games are cartoony and only little kids/nerds think otherwise. 🙄 bungie and the call of duty devs will always be the masters of art, beauty and war!! ✝️😎
Can we get ONE digsite video without someone complaining about 343? Just once? Can we not just appreciate a good thing for once?
@@themindfulmoron3790 Nah, complaining about 343 gets likes. The kids who post this probably never actually grew up with this stuff and just parrot what popular UA-camrs say.
how else would you react if your precious thing was raped, mutilated, and desecrated not only one, but thrice?
@@sanctumscream372 what popular youtuber even said what i say! Lmao
@@JustinBallard117Basically every popular Halo UA-camr right now
Halo 2 anniversary is cartoony like kids toy land, everything from bungie - destiny 2 and from og cod4 - infinite warfare looks far more realistic and beautiful.
How ya feel about infinite warfare now?
@@grahamhill676 its amazing.
@@JustinBallard117 Are you autistic?
Halo 1, 2 and 3 were all cartoony and colorful as heck... So what are you complaining about? :P
@@Kaboose666 stylized not cartoony, halo infinite and the rest of 343s garbage is what you call cartoony.