@@C_G33 how old are you ? i remember being excited for the future as a kid , But now that im here i miss the old times. especially when this demo came out. We were so excited for this game.
Surprisingly few (compared to the usual) comments that didnt bother reading Though the ones that didnt read are pretty obvious because their comments are all trying hard to be fummy
That's an understatement. This game was featured everywhere including newspapers. It was so popular back then it was like the second coming of Jesus Christ.
This is a great recreation. I’ll never forget waiting about 1 hour and a half to see this in person at E3. I remember feeling so hyped inside that room for the demo, the first dual wielding was cool but nothing tops seeing Master Chief holding X to highjack that Ghost. We all lost it and clapped so hard.
Like diegomis said, this is the actual restored demo. 343 dug up all the old assets that Bungie had for their games and allowed team Digsite access to it. We've even gotten access to cut content never seen before thanks to them.
I shed a tear when he pulled out the plasma grenade at the end. Didn’t expect that emotional reaction but I’m not surprised. I watched a cam of this demo probably 10,000x before the game came out. Seeing that ending just slammed me back in time so hard.
2004 FPS: Far Cry, Killzone, Counter-Strike Source, Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Unreal Tournament 2004 & Doom 3 2004 Others: Burnout 3 - Takedown, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Metal Gear Solid 3 - Snake Eater, Need for Speed Underground 2, World of Warcraft 2004 with great games
2004 is never gonna be beaten. It was without shadow of doubt the best year ever in gaming and I honestly cant see how we could get as many great games in 1 year as in 2004. Last year 2023 was the best year in gaming for long while but it totally pales in comparison to 04.
wheres Sly 2(band of thieves)Ratchet and Clank Up your Arsenal Jak 3 Paper Mario a Thousand year Door Resident Evil Outbreak 007 Everything or Nothing Headhunter Redemption Van Helsing Rouge Ops Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow Prince of Persia Warrior Within Killzone and many more games?
I always felt bad for Bungie when they made this, all that aspiration made into reality soiled by the hardware/game engine, and the fact that they were able to save themselves till the release is very impressive.
Just got done playing it and wow, breath taking is the only word to describe it. I'm so happy to be a halo fan on PC because we have the 1999 Mac World demo not long ago in MCC, and Halo 2 uncut (which restores lots of cut content in the game files), and now the E3 demo. Its a crime that the console players cant experience all this legendary Halo media!!!
As a PC play I agree (that it's crappy 343 doesn't give xbox users access to mods, at the very least they could give them the ones from digsite). But yeah being able to run around the 1999 Macworld map (or play it since they also turned it into a full blown level with objectives etc) is awesome. Same with this E3 demo of course. I read the next thing they are working on is a cut level from Halo 2 called Alpha Moon. Would love to see the E3 2000 map get released. That was right before MS bought bungie and when Halo was going to be PC (and Mac) exclusive.
@sean8102 is the E3 2000 one where it is a RTS game from above? I'll have to check out the mission you are talking about, do you know the name on steam workshop?
@chipsdubbo5.56 rts builds were from the 90s. E3 2000 was the demo they did with the marines entering the forerunner structure and running into elites.
Geez, it's incredible how fast this demo just brought me back to 2003 ... downloaded this gameplay off Limewire so I could watch it over and over... playing recreated levels in Halo CE Mod Tools with the sound effects from this demo ... Honestly Halo 2 will always be my favorite game but I don't think it ever lived up to the hype we all had for it. That's not necessarily a bad thing though.
2004 for me personally was the golden year for gaming. GTA:SA, Halo 2, Half Life 2, MGS 3, Burnout 3, NFSU2, Metroid Prime 2, Spider Man 2, Prince of Persia: WW, Ninja Gaiden, the first Far Cry, MK: Deception, World of Warcraft, DOOM 3, Jak 3, Crash Twinsanity. My god so many childhood classics.
Well its literally been 21 years...let that sink in 😂 but man those were the good old days of gaming. Now E3 where all biggest upcoming games were first shown is no more, Halo is but a shadow of its former self and so on...
Idk how it makes me feel but i feel like this has been missing all along. Kinda gave me pre release feelings now i can't wait for Halo 2 to release again.
Same. I remember ending up with two copies of halo 2. One was the regular, then later on I begged my parents to buy the limited edition. I thought the limited edition would have the demo lol. At least I didn't have to share Halo 2 with my brother and we could both play online with our own xbox'
Very few "modern" gaming companies will never be able to recreate the epicness that was this demo. From the reveal of brutes to the reveal of hijack back then
absolutely beautiful. thank you to everyone that made this possible. its great to see a memory brought to life from all those years ago that i can now share with my son. ya'll are the best. thanks again
@@carlcast1286 if its not an actual bot its close enough. I see a really weak attempt at self-promotion. And its oddly annoying because the comment technically falls under "misleading information."
Even after waiting and watching the Demo like over acouple thousand times in the past 21yrs, I had always been so excited to try and play the Demo. Im glad that we can finally get a recreated super close version of what it was like. That end cutscene will forever be engraved in my mind.
I’m 28 years old and I played this and it made my eyes water. Where has the time gone? I literally have wanted to play this for 20 years and finally got to do something my child self would’ve wanted so bad.
for a moment i was 12 years old again, i remembered everything this game series used to mean.. I've never seen this lost mission, but there, right there is the spirit of the game we used to love
This made me wonders if Bungie weren't limited by original Xbox hardware, they could have delivered Doom 3 inspired stencil shadow game engine. It checks the cinematic feels when it has proper stencil shadow function.
They definitely could have if they waited for 360. The stencil shadows were cut sometime between e3 2002 and e3 2003. For the 03 demo they had already shifted to shadow volumes instead of stencils, hence why the original demo has softer shadows than 2002.
If development had moved to the 360 I'm sure. Doom 3 did release on the OG Xbox. But obviously doom 3 environments are a bit smaller than the average halo map lol. Plus all the scripting, AI, physics etc of "the sandbox" going on at the same time. I'm surprised they ever thought the OG xbox would be able to handle it. There is a interesting mod for Halo 2 MCC on the steam workshop (and the nexus) called "halo 2 lighting restored". It dose not re enable stencil shadows (haven't seen any mod that dose, I think it was cut to early), but it dose make WAY more of the lights in the game dynamic lights giving the whole game a look closer to this E3 demo.
Plus 2004 saw also such releases as World of Warcraft, Doom 3, Far Cry, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War, Sims 2, Burnout 3: Takedown , Jak 3, Ratchet and Clank 3, Sly 2, Metroid Prime 2, Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars KOTOR II, Fable, Ninja Gaiden.....truly best year ever in gaming, that sadly many gamers seem to ignore/forget when they name the best years in gaming history. To me 2004 is such a year that it can never be beaten unless Half Life 3, new GTA, new Halo as good as Bungie Halo game were, Warcraft IV and few other big games would all release in same year. And such years just dont happen anymore. Years like 2023 is as good as its gonna get
@@Balnazzardi2007 is better, God of war 2, Halo 3, half life orange box, bioshock, call of duty 4, mass effect one, mario galaxy, assasins creed. So many new IP. Also gta4 was supposed to launch in 2007 but got pushed back to 2008.
@@SWOTHDRA even with all that, 2007 is still the 2nd best year for me. The amount of hours I put on Half Life 2, Halo 2 and World of Warcraft alone ensure that 2004 will always remain number 1 for me
Yup, just after making this demo they came to the realization that the launch spec Xbox could not handle the graphics they were pulling here and had to nearly recreate the entire graphical engine hence why its launch was pushed back. Beyond this demo you can see evidence of this in the cutscene where Chief "gives the covenant back their bomb". In that room it still had a large majority of the graphics effects not used in actual gameplay
i was a young piece os cake back then, i went to the Mall just to play a little bit of Halo 2 in the videogame store after school. A experience i will never forget.
I remember seeing this at E3, holy fuck this is nostalgic to replay it again on PC with MCC. Couldn’t wait until I got my copy of the limited Collectors Edition back in 2004.
Gather round, kids. I remember this trailer was an 80mb file and it took forever on my ADSL to download. As someone who played through Halo CE maybe a hundred times on the ol XBOX with my bro and neighbour, I would watch this trailer everyday like an obsessed fan boy who couldn't bare to wait another day for the game to come out. When it finally did come out in fancy its metallic case, it couldn't live up to the hype of my imagination, and it was nothing like the awesomeness of this demo, and then I saw the DVD content of behind the scenes creation where the Devs are glum and frustrated and literally saying "the game is not good" and then I played until the New mumbasa level and I was thinking, holy crap the graphics are worse than halo 1 and the city is so bland. A lot of people love halo 2 but for me halo 2 was this demo.
Man, I really wish they could patch this into the console version of MCC. I don't play steam myself. But I've been a Halo fan since the beginning with CE. Fingers crossed they can do that at some point.
If you have a pc and happen to have gamepass you can download the mod off nexusmods and play it that way. Halo 2 can run on some pretty potato hardware. But the lighting hacks we did to make it look like the original demo will cause framerate drops on lower end hardware when in cutscenes.
I remember when those rocker gamer chairs with the built in speakers were coming out, Sears had a a demo unit with this playing. my parents let me watch it 3 times in a row. by that i mean they left me alone and christmas shopped while i zombied out on the chair. they actually got me a rocker chair for christmas that year, never used it once lol
Its crazy how much better the lighting engine was in the e3 demo build. The lighting in the shipped version of h2 and in this mod looks so much less complete. Really paints a picture of how the game was intended to look...
Do you remember the chills from grabbing your copy of Halo 2 sitting down and just spending hours on the most joyous crying state of adventure in your Teenage or adult life lol. All I remember is sweaty palms and dam jackal snipers when I think of Halo 2 especially on legendary. Can't wait to get back in the fight though whoever left.
It's gone. Not needed anymore and the big companies (Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo first) realized they didn't need E3. They could just stream a even whenever they wanted. And it's true.
"What you good people are about to see is an operation in progress. This is a real-time feed! No smoke-and-mirrors, pre-recorded bullshit!" What a way to say "all footage recorded in-game".
Low poly means that the number of shapes in the wireframe of the character textures is set to a minimal for compensation of rendering time. N64 has a lower poly look than Xbox, but both were Low Poly consoles.
I remember watching the original demo gameplay on a demo disk (remember those?) from one of those classic video game magazines. I swear I thought the game looked close to real life back then lmfao
I remember this being the most cinematic thing I'd ever seen in a game besides Half-Life 2 at the time. I was so disappointed when I finished Halo 2 and this stuff wasn't even in the game. Now I'm old.
Indeed, the pre launch hype for Halo 2 and Halo 3 was insane. That kind of stuff just doesnt happen anymore, the 90s and first decade of 2000s were the golden years of gaming
In the past we longed for the future, in the future we long for the past.
we hope the feauture from the past
Very true, sad but true
I dont recall ever personally longing for the future or an overwhelming vibe that most people did.
Capitalism destroys the future so we're forced to look back to the past.
@@C_G33 how old are you ? i remember being excited for the future as a kid , But now that im here i miss the old times. especially when this demo came out. We were so excited for this game.
Can’t wait for it to release! 2003 is going to be an exciting year for gaming.
2004
Man don't say that I'm already in tears 😭
For real! We're also getting Half-Life 2!
@@abdulazeemshaikh8314I know right? Hopefully it comes out someday and doesn’t take forever,but man these new games are amazing
Halo 2 released in 2004... what is your point? are you having revisionist history or something?
Amazed at how people clearly did not read the description. Kudos to the modding team that recreated this demo.
@@AndreTheBarbadian if there’s one place more ignorant than IGN themselves, it’ll be their UA-cam comment sections lol
People just click on IGN videos to chat nonsense for likes
Surprisingly few (compared to the usual) comments that didnt bother reading
Though the ones that didnt read are pretty obvious because their comments are all trying hard to be fummy
Seeing this gameplay in Full HD or 4K even feels off. It's like a fever dream.
Its just a recreated mod
@ReverbRising I'm very much aware of this.
Right? It's like it should only exist on pirated camcorder footage as I first saw it
“Betcha can’t stick it”
“You’re on”
Unreal goosebumps everytime
@ashtoncrosby3517 the only thing more epic than the demo now being released, would be finding out what happens next
This game was the talk of the town once upon a time.
That's an understatement. This game was featured everywhere including newspapers. It was so popular back then it was like the second coming of Jesus Christ.
The fact the files were found for this demo, then worked on to be actually playable is nothing short of magical.
This is a great recreation. I’ll never forget waiting about 1 hour and a half to see this in person at E3. I remember feeling so hyped inside that room for the demo, the first dual wielding was cool but nothing tops seeing Master Chief holding X to highjack that Ghost. We all lost it and clapped so hard.
it is not a recreation it is the actual level but restored
Like diegomis said, this is the actual restored demo. 343 dug up all the old assets that Bungie had for their games and allowed team Digsite access to it. We've even gotten access to cut content never seen before thanks to them.
haha u old
Well it's more of a port. It's using the original assets but they had to bring it to an entirely different version of the H2 engine
I shed a tear when he pulled out the plasma grenade at the end. Didn’t expect that emotional reaction but I’m not surprised. I watched a cam of this demo probably 10,000x before the game came out. Seeing that ending just slammed me back in time so hard.
2004 FPS: Far Cry, Killzone, Counter-Strike Source, Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Unreal Tournament 2004 & Doom 3
2004 Others: Burnout 3 - Takedown, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Metal Gear Solid 3 - Snake Eater, Need for Speed Underground 2, World of Warcraft
2004 with great games
@@CJAIME01345S you forgot a couple games lol
Fable 1
2004 is never gonna be beaten. It was without shadow of doubt the best year ever in gaming and I honestly cant see how we could get as many great games in 1 year as in 2004. Last year 2023 was the best year in gaming for long while but it totally pales in comparison to 04.
@@deadpatronus Ops
wheres Sly 2(band of thieves)Ratchet and Clank Up your Arsenal Jak 3 Paper Mario a Thousand year Door Resident Evil Outbreak 007 Everything or Nothing Headhunter Redemption Van Helsing Rouge Ops Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow Prince of Persia Warrior Within Killzone and many more games?
I always felt bad for Bungie when they made this, all that aspiration made into reality soiled by the hardware/game engine, and the fact that they were able to save themselves till the release is very impressive.
A lot of divorces happened just for us gamers to enjoy Halo 2. 😔
Bungies rushed games shit on 343s 7 year development 500 million dollar waste management they call halo infinite
@@skettinbutter3635 Lol no.
Not only are you delusional about quality, you don't even have any facts.
@@amosdeguzman9980nah bro is right
@@nhinged H's using a fake leak. He's already showing he's not smart.
Just got done playing it and wow, breath taking is the only word to describe it. I'm so happy to be a halo fan on PC because we have the 1999 Mac World demo not long ago in MCC, and Halo 2 uncut (which restores lots of cut content in the game files), and now the E3 demo. Its a crime that the console players cant experience all this legendary Halo media!!!
As a PC play I agree (that it's crappy 343 doesn't give xbox users access to mods, at the very least they could give them the ones from digsite). But yeah being able to run around the 1999 Macworld map (or play it since they also turned it into a full blown level with objectives etc) is awesome. Same with this E3 demo of course. I read the next thing they are working on is a cut level from Halo 2 called Alpha Moon. Would love to see the E3 2000 map get released. That was right before MS bought bungie and when Halo was going to be PC (and Mac) exclusive.
@sean8102 is the E3 2000 one where it is a RTS game from above? I'll have to check out the mission you are talking about, do you know the name on steam workshop?
@chipsdubbo5.56 rts builds were from the 90s. E3 2000 was the demo they did with the marines entering the forerunner structure and running into elites.
@@chipsdubbo5.56it was a third person shooter by the time the macworld 99 and E3 2000 showcase happened. I think it stopped being an RTS by 97
Happy 20th Halo 2. I’ll never forget the lead up to the release of the game in 2004. It was an event.
I’ll never forget the moment when he first dual wielded that SMG… pretty sure that was the first time my jaw actually dropped in gaming 😭
@@everything_purp lol yes and finally using the energy sword
@@everything_purp lol yes and finally using the energy sword
Never thought I'd see my gamertag in an IGN video. From the bottom of my heart, thank you guys so much for everything
Epic
The music was so epic! And just by watching this again you can feel that warmth from that era. This was truly a different time we took for granted.
The past has become more relevant than the future....we did not know we were living during the peak and golden age of gaming in the 2000s
There were few E3 showings that left as big of an impact, this was one of them.
This is like halo 2 meet halo 3
That’s basically what Halo 2 was meant to be but so much was cut because Bungie had to release the game in 2004.
I am glad to have witnessed this back in the day
it sure confused me back then when the demo i saw was not really in the game i played
Geez, it's incredible how fast this demo just brought me back to 2003 ... downloaded this gameplay off Limewire so I could watch it over and over... playing recreated levels in Halo CE Mod Tools with the sound effects from this demo ... Honestly Halo 2 will always be my favorite game but I don't think it ever lived up to the hype we all had for it. That's not necessarily a bad thing though.
This brings back memories and makes me want to go back and play Halo 2!
20 years ago we would’ve never thought that a demo would be more rememberable and better than 90% of AAA games today
2004 for me personally was the golden year for gaming. GTA:SA, Halo 2, Half Life 2, MGS 3, Burnout 3, NFSU2, Metroid Prime 2, Spider Man 2, Prince of Persia: WW, Ninja Gaiden, the first Far Cry, MK: Deception, World of Warcraft, DOOM 3, Jak 3, Crash Twinsanity. My god so many childhood classics.
Even Project Gotham Racing 2 Mechassault 2
@marvinrodriguez7971 PGR 2 came out in 2003 bro. Mechassault 2 was a good game but not iconic as those i stated above, in my opinion
@DodoRibeiro-ts6po I know But the DLCs of PGR2 happened & came out in 2004 tho
So still counts as 2004 too
@@DodoRibeiro-ts6po yo it's my birthday today bruv
12th of November
@@marvinrodriguez7971 Happy birthday man, enjoy it 🔥🔥🔥
I didn't know Halo at the time, but watching this on TV as a kid I really wanted to play it. Feels like a lifetime ago.
Well its literally been 21 years...let that sink in 😂 but man those were the good old days of gaming. Now E3 where all biggest upcoming games were first shown is no more, Halo is but a shadow of its former self and so on...
Idk how it makes me feel but i feel like this has been missing all along. Kinda gave me pre release feelings now i can't wait for Halo 2 to release again.
I remember being gutted when this section wasn't part of the release game lol
Same. I remember ending up with two copies of halo 2.
One was the regular, then later on I begged my parents to buy the limited edition. I thought the limited edition would have the demo lol.
At least I didn't have to share Halo 2 with my brother and we could both play online with our own xbox'
9:04 Goosebumps. Nostalgia. 🥲
I can still hear the cheers from the crowd when they first saw dual wielding...
Only footage I had from this for years was the Halo 2 bonus DVD. Gonna be great to finally test it
When things were simple and we had fun 😢😢 good times brothers
I can't wait till 2003
Very few "modern" gaming companies will never be able to recreate the epicness that was this demo. From the reveal of brutes to the reveal of hijack back then
This brings back so many memories playing Halo2 with buddies little brother. He was a fanatic
So happy they were able to get one of the most legendary E3 missions for all of us to enjoy. Brings a tear to me eyes
I was literally a new born the year this demo came out, and this better animation than 2024 animation
really goes to show that it's talent, not graphics that matter
This is huge, this demo was what made and still does make, Halo larger than life, so dope to see this
It’s so great to see it in fine clarity, instead of so blurry
"YO!! DEMO BeOTCH!"
absolutely beautiful. thank you to everyone that made this possible. its great to see a memory brought to life from all those years ago that i can now share with my son. ya'll are the best. thanks again
Wow! Halo will have a sequel?! Can't wait to play it!
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@@MonkeMan374-pj9xx Ey pops. Bots don't work that way. It's difficult to tell what's a bot from a real person. You that heavy?
@@carlcast1286 if its not an actual bot its close enough. I see a really weak attempt at self-promotion. And its oddly annoying because the comment technically falls under "misleading information."
@@MonkeMan374-pj9xx It’s just someone’s making a joke. Most likely not a bot.
@@MonkeMan374-pj9xx Do you not know what a joke is?
Yo that music at the start is so nice with the flute.
Even after waiting and watching the Demo like over acouple thousand times in the past 21yrs, I had always been so excited to try and play the Demo. Im glad that we can finally get a recreated super close version of what it was like. That end cutscene will forever be engraved in my mind.
Damn I loved this demo, I have longed for that single fire battle rifle my whole life
it's playable man
I’m 28 years old and I played this and it made my eyes water. Where has the time gone? I literally have wanted to play this for 20 years and finally got to do something my child self would’ve wanted so bad.
No way im missing this midnight launch😤
for a moment i was 12 years old again, i remembered everything this game series used to mean.. I've never seen this lost mission, but there, right there is the spirit of the game we used to love
So cool that Halo got a sequel. It’s nice that Microsoft has a mascot now.
Halo 2 one my favorite epic games to come out for the original Xbox back in 2003
1:57 I wanted to grab my controller! 😭
This made me wonders if Bungie weren't limited by original Xbox hardware, they could have delivered Doom 3 inspired stencil shadow game engine. It checks the cinematic feels when it has proper stencil shadow function.
They definitely could have if they waited for 360. The stencil shadows were cut sometime between e3 2002 and e3 2003. For the 03 demo they had already shifted to shadow volumes instead of stencils, hence why the original demo has softer shadows than 2002.
If development had moved to the 360 I'm sure. Doom 3 did release on the OG Xbox. But obviously doom 3 environments are a bit smaller than the average halo map lol. Plus all the scripting, AI, physics etc of "the sandbox" going on at the same time. I'm surprised they ever thought the OG xbox would be able to handle it. There is a interesting mod for Halo 2 MCC on the steam workshop (and the nexus) called "halo 2 lighting restored". It dose not re enable stencil shadows (haven't seen any mod that dose, I think it was cut to early), but it dose make WAY more of the lights in the game dynamic lights giving the whole game a look closer to this E3 demo.
Mannnn the Halo 2 score is still SO good. I remember watching this demo on repeat for months on end until the game finally released 🥲
This whole season of gaming was legendary. San Andreas, Halo 2, Half Life 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines all in just a three week span
Plus 2004 saw also such releases as World of Warcraft, Doom 3, Far Cry, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War, Sims 2, Burnout 3: Takedown , Jak 3, Ratchet and Clank 3, Sly 2, Metroid Prime 2, Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars KOTOR II, Fable, Ninja Gaiden.....truly best year ever in gaming, that sadly many gamers seem to ignore/forget when they name the best years in gaming history.
To me 2004 is such a year that it can never be beaten unless Half Life 3, new GTA, new Halo as good as Bungie Halo game were, Warcraft IV and few other big games would all release in same year. And such years just dont happen anymore. Years like 2023 is as good as its gonna get
Fable
@@Balnazzardi2007 is better, God of war 2, Halo 3, half life orange box, bioshock, call of duty 4, mass effect one, mario galaxy, assasins creed. So many new IP. Also gta4 was supposed to launch in 2007 but got pushed back to 2008.
@@SWOTHDRA even with all that, 2007 is still the 2nd best year for me. The amount of hours I put on Half Life 2, Halo 2 and World of Warcraft alone ensure that 2004 will always remain number 1 for me
The demo looked so much better than the final game. 👍
Can’t wait to play the “demo mod”!
Yup, just after making this demo they came to the realization that the launch spec Xbox could not handle the graphics they were pulling here and had to nearly recreate the entire graphical engine hence why its launch was pushed back. Beyond this demo you can see evidence of this in the cutscene where Chief "gives the covenant back their bomb". In that room it still had a large majority of the graphics effects not used in actual gameplay
Or just install the "Halo 2 restored lighting" mod from the steam workshop. Makes the whole game have this kind of lighting.
@sean8102 That does add back in the dynamic lighting and such but doesn't do necessarily all that was in the E3 build
I can't count how many times I watched this while waiting for the game to release back in 2003. Best E3 presentation of all time
oh yeah its gamer time
R.I.P Killzone & Haze ⚰
i was a young piece os cake back then, i went to the Mall just to play a little bit of Halo 2 in the videogame store after school. A experience i will never forget.
I remember seeing this at E3, holy fuck this is nostalgic to replay it again on PC with MCC. Couldn’t wait until I got my copy of the limited Collectors Edition back in 2004.
Damn for a sec there i thought we done went back in time 20 years
This year has been a massive W and this is a add on
Gather round, kids.
I remember this trailer was an 80mb file and it took forever on my ADSL to download. As someone who played through Halo CE maybe a hundred times on the ol XBOX with my bro and neighbour, I would watch this trailer everyday like an obsessed fan boy who couldn't bare to wait another day for the game to come out. When it finally did come out in fancy its metallic case, it couldn't live up to the hype of my imagination, and it was nothing like the awesomeness of this demo, and then I saw the DVD content of behind the scenes creation where the Devs are glum and frustrated and literally saying "the game is not good" and then I played until the New mumbasa level and I was thinking, holy crap the graphics are worse than halo 1 and the city is so bland. A lot of people love halo 2 but for me halo 2 was this demo.
20 yrs later i got to use the 3 hit melee combo. wild feeling
IKR. That was one of the first things I tired after download this.
Man, I really wish they could patch this into the console version of MCC. I don't play steam myself. But I've been a Halo fan since the beginning with CE. Fingers crossed they can do that at some point.
If you have a pc and happen to have gamepass you can download the mod off nexusmods and play it that way. Halo 2 can run on some pretty potato hardware. But the lighting hacks we did to make it look like the original demo will cause framerate drops on lower end hardware when in cutscenes.
I remember this day. Also thought the graphics were so good that I wondered how it could get much better from this. Same with RE1REMAKE GC
Legendary game and best Halo in the franchise.
This is my personal fav halo game of all time and my fav game overall
I remember when those rocker gamer chairs with the built in speakers were coming out, Sears had a a demo unit with this playing. my parents let me watch it 3 times in a row. by that i mean they left me alone and christmas shopped while i zombied out on the chair. they actually got me a rocker chair for christmas that year, never used it once lol
Im from the future and I can say that this game was a certified smash hit!
Joe Staten was voice acting of Grunts? nice!
ahh memories
Its crazy how much better the lighting engine was in the e3 demo build. The lighting in the shipped version of h2 and in this mod looks so much less complete. Really paints a picture of how the game was intended to look...
Do you remember the chills from grabbing your copy of Halo 2 sitting down and just spending hours on the most joyous crying state of adventure in your Teenage or adult life lol. All I remember is sweaty palms and dam jackal snipers when I think of Halo 2 especially on legendary. Can't wait to get back in the fight though whoever left.
plz return back E3
It's gone. Not needed anymore and the big companies (Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo first) realized they didn't need E3. They could just stream a even whenever they wanted. And it's true.
I think they are just 1 hit wonder. Dont think sequel will work
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I bet whatever company takes over halo after them doesn't suck and makes games way better than bungie ever could
@@skettinbutter3635I bet you're a smart person.
@@amosdeguzman9980 the fact it went over your head worries me
@@skettinbutter3635 The fact you think I'm not being sarcastic worries me.
😢 I miss an amazing experience in HALO game
Damn when i was a kid i used to wish to play that e3 now thanks to the modders i'm witnessing childhood dreams
"What you good people are about to see is an operation in progress. This is a real-time feed! No smoke-and-mirrors, pre-recorded bullshit!"
What a way to say "all footage recorded in-game".
I CAN'T WAIT FOR HALO 2 TO COME OUT.
Remember this demo on Halo CE on the original Xbox. I always thought i could play through it.
Omg halo 2?, noooo way, I’m sooo excited.
now....Dear Ubisoft? Can we have your E3 Demos please? :D
This. I wanna try out their E3 Demo of Future Soldier.
I remember the hype about this game i love halo 2
Wow! This looks so realistic! I can't wait!!!
Thanks to the Digsite team for this.
I dare the modern game companies to build any kind of low-poly game with as much atmosphere and immersion as Halo 2.
fym "low poly" lmao Halo 2 was cutting edge and pushed graphics when it came out
Low poly means that the number of shapes in the wireframe of the character textures is set to a minimal for compensation of rendering time. N64 has a lower poly look than Xbox, but both were Low Poly consoles.
@@clonecam117thefilthycasual6Halo 2 wasn't cutting edge. It had terrible lighting.
I remember watching the original demo gameplay on a demo disk (remember those?) from one of those classic video game magazines. I swear I thought the game looked close to real life back then lmfao
I still remember that night halo 2 launched. And I remember playing halo 1 outside the GameStop trying to win a free copy of the game.
Peak Halo, 2000s went hard bro
IGN ready to give it a SIX and a HALF!
Finally!! 20 years later :')
As a kid, I had no idea what was going on but it was so fun. I'm sad they didn't have the demo guy from the original come back tho
I remember this being the most cinematic thing I'd ever seen in a game besides Half-Life 2 at the time. I was so disappointed when I finished Halo 2 and this stuff wasn't even in the game. Now I'm old.
People don't realize how big of a deal this was at the time.
Indeed, the pre launch hype for Halo 2 and Halo 3 was insane. That kind of stuff just doesnt happen anymore, the 90s and first decade of 2000s were the golden years of gaming
@@Balnazzardi exactly. Now it's just pre-download and nothing else
Oh how far we've come
Smh, Chief only needed one line to be a badass. Now he needs an entire monologue about his feelings..
Looks good, when is it coming out again?
They took their time to release the demo! 😂
This was never meant for the public, it's just a nice treat for fans.
I didn’t know that, thanks for telling me!
I was so mad this mission wasn't playable growing up.
God this hit different