Do you mean between Cairo station and outskirts? It would be weird since the cutscene in this and outskirts is so similar, and the fact that the dialogue between corporal mendez and cortana also happens in metropolis
I like the elements of... "thisness" to this. Like the medical tents, the people getting treated. Makes you feel like you are in an active warzone but it's not like the city is a big BTB map so to speak. There are of course some of that in the game we got but I really like that feeling of being in the world, y'know?
Man halo was ahead of its time this brings back so much memories arguably one of best demos of all time for a game WTF HAPPENED MAN!!!!!! MAKE HALO GREAT AGAIN !!
The Halo 2 E3 Demo looks amazing and needs to be added to Halo MCC! So the Battle Rifle in the Halo 2 E3 Demo played like the DMR in Halo Reach? Pretty cool 😎
We had an Air Force Expeditionary Bomb Squadron deployed to Diego Garcia when this came out. Don’t know what the “405th” is supposed to be but it doesn’t sound Air Force to me.
ive always wanted to play this mission but never got to, fortunately there's a mod to where the old bungie campaign idea was released to the modding community and at least got to use the single shot BR
They had most of the ideas in place that would later evolve into H3:ODST and it is amazing and heartbreaking to look back and see. We used to be a proper community. We played these games in the most trying tomes of the Iraq Campaign and Enduring Freedom. The strifes we faced in New Mombasa, Multiplayer lobbies, couch co-ops distracted us from the strife of reality
H3 ODST dialogue and general goofiness lets it down. It's really weird especially since H3 is really tonally serious aside from a few weird things (To war!) but H3ODST is a slapstick any time Rookie isn't on screen. The animations are weird too. I think this is much more tonally serious than ODST.
Shame it was all smoke and mirrors. I remember watching the Halo 2 demo back when it first dropped and everyone lost their minds. I still love 2 in its current state but imagine if we got this. The lighting makes a world of difference, the melee combo looks so smooth, the BR switching to single shot when zoomed. Too bad bungie's ambitions went beyond the console's limitations.
@angelbryan98 I get that. But bungie made an announcement claiming that the Halo 2 demo was explicitly not smoke and mirrors before showcasing it, courtesy of Sgt. Major Avery Jr. Johnson himself. Only afterwards, when they had to scrap that engine, did they come out and say that it was overly ambitious and the xbox couldn't run that.
This build looks more like something you'd see out of an Xbox 360 launch title. Bungie was really onto something with this. I'm just sad the technology just wasn't there for them at the time.
There's a reason the Bungie era Halo games are always revisited, their music is always reused even for newer Halo games, maps are always remastered in the newer games, everyone knows, regardless of whether or not they want to admit it, 343 Industries and Microsoft alone, will NEVER, EVER make games as good as the ORIGINAL Bungie did.
@@MultiDarkII Well this time around they hired people that do care about Halo, and they’re currently still hiring. Plus in the New Dawn video, you could really feel the passion for the Bungie era of games
dare I say this would've been a better mission than what we got, at least conceptually. I think landing in the city with UNSC still holding ground, rather than New Mombasa being occupied by Covenant already, instead of getting shot down and crashlanding like in Halo CE this would've been refreshing and more interesting. also I think that city-center being more reinforced with marines while maybe Covenant focus their attention on the outskirts would be more interesting as well
Okay, so it's low res, but the area where the Cruiser lands is super interesting, and I wish we had gotten exactly what was shown. Seriously, take a look and imagine the objective being boarding the ship.
@@TheRealQuenny Yeaaaaah, that's probably the weakest LZ ever. Lol. But you're absolutely right, and I completely forgot about that. If you look at what's envisioned here in this demo versus what we received in Halo 3 ODST, it's actually a complete tragedy.
I can see why bungie pre-recorded the demo. Even with large amounts of time to prep and update to minimize glitches, you can still see glitches and the game engine really struggling when you are not perfectly on the rails.
Too bad this was to complicated For them to actually have it in the game. This mission actually feels like an invasion with you being dropped right on the front lines of the defense and counter attack. The outskirts that made it into the game is great but it feels like you are In just a run and gun skirmish until you get to metropolis.
After this demo got scrapped… I must admit, from an overall narrative standpoint, I became a little disappointed with the direction of Halo. H2 was still an impressive game in the end, especially considering the full story behind the development… but envisioning a full game on this engine and weapon sandbox, with the dire tone they were pushing between this and the announcement trailer, and carrying it through a full campaign… it would’ve been incredible.
I was really hoping that at some point they'd add all this missing stuff to MCC on Xbox from the PC version (like all of the other Halo Online maps), but at this point I've really come to doubt they're updating the MCC on Xbox ever again
Gotta be honest I'm kinda upset this isn't the true Halo 2 E3 2003 build that Bungie showed off all the way back in 2003, I know it's fucking amazing to everyone but it still bums me out that the true original build is lost to time and this is just a recreation
@@TheRealQuenny Wait it is actually the E3 2003 demo build made by Bungie that they showcased?? D: I thought the entire thing was just entirely remade from the ground up for MCC
@@TheRealQuenny I didn’t know that XD Actually speaking of that mixer stream from 2018, has Digsite said anything about finding those prototype campaign missions from the second beta build 343 showed off in that stream after showing off the E3 2003 demo?? :v I haven’t heard anything about Digsite finding those prototype missions yet and they’re called Earthcity, Delta Temple, Alpha Gasgiant, Sentinel HQ, and Delta control room
They should have delayed Halo 2 one year and made it the flagship release for Xbox 360. They would have been able to finish the game they wanted to make. Microsoft ruins (almost) everything.
I really do think they could have pulled this off if they had a good B-team put together a standalone expansion for the first game. Package it with some new multiplayer maps and the ones from the first game's PC port with new Xbox Live capability, it could have held fans over for another year.
Ash Williams Army of darkness or Josh McGrath / Max Steel or Action Man 1993 or Guts / Gatsu berserk be like John-117 or Noble 6 B-312 or Lord Saladin or Lord Shaxx or Zavala Destiny, Elizaberth Betsy Braddock / Psylocke or Setsuna Meiou / sailor pluto or Kaine or A2 Nier be like Cortana, Duke Nukem rises from the ashes, Groovy Hayabusa Armor and Spartan Nicole-458 from dead or alive, theory or clue Halo is the future from the real life
punch combos were such a good idea...
is that in the video?
@@OccurYTyeah. He meant melee combos, after the brute jumps onto the warthog
@@JDotLoc oh nice! Thanks for helping clarify. i did enjoy the button combos in H2 even if they werent intentional
@@OccurYT no problem and me too
We might finnaly get what we been asking for years but it's so hard to get exited just so many years of disappointment it's just too much to take in.
3:13 in Halo Infinite that would just be the screen flashing white
This.
You forgot the vehicle needs to start glowing red to tell everyone its gonna blow first 😂
Incredible. Had it not been for this E3 demo I don’t think I would’ve been a Halo fan
isnt it insane revisiting a demo that changed your entire life? its so awesome
Man, I wish they added this mission. It would have fit perfect between the second and first mission.
Do you mean between Cairo station and outskirts? It would be weird since the cutscene in this and outskirts is so similar, and the fact that the dialogue between corporal mendez and cortana also happens in metropolis
furry uwu
Uwu squared
I like the elements of... "thisness" to this. Like the medical tents, the people getting treated. Makes you feel like you are in an active warzone but it's not like the city is a big BTB map so to speak. There are of course some of that in the game we got but I really like that feeling of being in the world, y'know?
I love that he waves the SMGs in the air as if to say, “I HAVE IT!”
Man this brings a tear to my eye that we're finally getting this mission im so pumped!
We are?
You're saying we can actually play this??
Halo dig site. 2:17
"Betcha can't stick it" is still the hardest line in all of Halo to this day.
Man halo was ahead of its time this brings back so much memories arguably one of best demos of all time for a game WTF HAPPENED MAN!!!!!! MAKE HALO GREAT AGAIN !!
I watched that trailer hundreds of times in high school waiting for Halo 2.
This demo is Halo heaven
It's a shame they couldn't release this exact version in this engine, but it's nice we're getting it in some form at all
honestly it looks impossible. its an amazing concept trailer but translating it into an actual mission and full game would be hell.
@@nobodyspecial4676 well they are releasing it as a mission for MCC, but they're just porting it into the release version of Halo 2.
@@selzzaWwhen???
@@MarkMcdaniels-k9n like a couple of hours ago
The Halo 2 E3 Demo looks amazing and needs to be added to Halo MCC!
So the Battle Rifle in the Halo 2 E3 Demo played like the DMR in Halo Reach? Pretty cool 😎
almost forgot that was the original concept!
Me too ✋🏽
Not really similar at all. Very different fire rates
it will be added to mcc via steam workshop!
2:17
That's a nice System Shock 2 reference with the Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia is an island i think in the Indian Ocean with a Military Base on it, what's the reference with the other game? I never played that one.
We had an Air Force Expeditionary Bomb Squadron deployed to Diego Garcia when this came out. Don’t know what the “405th” is supposed to be but it doesn’t sound Air Force to me.
@@Ryan_Christopher 405th is supposed to be the UNSC Marine Corps Infantry Division or Regiment stationed there (in-game).
Omg 21 years later and we get to finally play the level that help sell halo2!! I was do bummed when it wasnt there but wowiiee 😊😊😊
can't wait to play this
such a cool piece of halo history
ive always wanted to play this mission but never got to, fortunately there's a mod to where the old bungie campaign idea was released to the modding community and at least got to use the single shot BR
This makes me feel again. lmao, so cool 🔥
They had most of the ideas in place that would later evolve into H3:ODST and it is amazing and heartbreaking to look back and see. We used to be a proper community. We played these games in the most trying tomes of the Iraq Campaign and Enduring Freedom. The strifes we faced in New Mombasa, Multiplayer lobbies, couch co-ops distracted us from the strife of reality
It distracted me from my homework mainly
H3 ODST dialogue and general goofiness lets it down. It's really weird especially since H3 is really tonally serious aside from a few weird things (To war!) but H3ODST is a slapstick any time Rookie isn't on screen. The animations are weird too. I think this is much more tonally serious than ODST.
great video… glad your channel is doing so well ^_^
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Man halo was ahead of its time this brings back so much memories WTF HAPPENED man MHGA
Shame it was all smoke and mirrors. I remember watching the Halo 2 demo back when it first dropped and everyone lost their minds. I still love 2 in its current state but imagine if we got this. The lighting makes a world of difference, the melee combo looks so smooth, the BR switching to single shot when zoomed. Too bad bungie's ambitions went beyond the console's limitations.
Every tech demo is smoke and mirrors. The games never look like them.
@angelbryan98 I get that. But bungie made an announcement claiming that the Halo 2 demo was explicitly not smoke and mirrors before showcasing it, courtesy of Sgt. Major Avery Jr. Johnson himself. Only afterwards, when they had to scrap that engine, did they come out and say that it was overly ambitious and the xbox couldn't run that.
@@AnakinSkywakka I know, it was a joke from Sgt. Johnson and Bungie. It's actually impressive that they delivered a game without sacrificing too much.
@@angelbryan98 Right? Despite it all, Halo 2 is still one of my favorite games in the franchise.
Apparently halo games is planning on making it playable for the MCC ( though I am not 100% sure about that )
Gives me goosebumps, such a major flashback when I watch this.
This build looks more like something you'd see out of an Xbox 360 launch title. Bungie was really onto something with this. I'm just sad the technology just wasn't there for them at the time.
its so cool how new Mombasa was supposed to be a hive city
Halo 2 was such an ambitious game. So many great ideas that were just too much for the technology of its era.
There's a reason the Bungie era Halo games are always revisited, their music is always reused even for newer Halo games, maps are always remastered in the newer games, everyone knows, regardless of whether or not they want to admit it, 343 Industries and Microsoft alone, will NEVER, EVER make games as good as the ORIGINAL Bungie did.
They'll just hire people who hate Halo.
Well, don't got to worry about 343 anymore
@Can_O_Peas It's still too early to tell. Hopefully it can turn around.
@@Can_O_Peas lol u think hiring people that dont understand halo AGAIN and changing the company name makes a different?
@@MultiDarkII Well this time around they hired people that do care about Halo, and they’re currently still hiring. Plus in the New Dawn video, you could really feel the passion for the Bungie era of games
A shame this never made it into the actual game, it was so good! I watched this so so so so many times on the Game Magazine DVD it was on.
That’s going to change November 9th.
dare I say this would've been a better mission than what we got, at least conceptually. I think landing in the city with UNSC still holding ground, rather than New Mombasa being occupied by Covenant already, instead of getting shot down and crashlanding like in Halo CE this would've been refreshing and more interesting. also I think that city-center being more reinforced with marines while maybe Covenant focus their attention on the outskirts would be more interesting as well
whenever i think about h2 i think about this build where they had it on g4 on comcast used to love g4 gameplay vids on ondemand
3:07 a 2003 demo has better explosions and physics than Halo Inifnite. I enjoy Infinite but feels so janky, plastic, & flat.
The Longsword bombing run would’ve been cool to have in any halo game, I’m surprised it never got used in game, just in the cutscenes
Best you get are shortswords doing it regularly in Halo Wars 1
Halo Reach Tip of The Spear when a Frigate and Longswords pull up to take down several Scarabs
No no lo puedo creer ya lo están jugando ❤
Dig site needs to release this on the workshop..
@@BrennanTheContentWhisperer November 9th
@@TheRealQuenny wait????? OMFG I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THATS WHAT THIS VIDEO WAS FOR OH FUCK YES
This is so good
No lo puedo creer ya lo están jugando!
Okay, so it's low res, but the area where the Cruiser lands is super interesting, and I wish we had gotten exactly what was shown. Seriously, take a look and imagine the objective being boarding the ship.
we actually see exactly where the carrier first dropped off in Uplift Reserve in Halo 3 ODST
@@TheRealQuenny Yeaaaaah, that's probably the weakest LZ ever. Lol. But you're absolutely right, and I completely forgot about that. If you look at what's envisioned here in this demo versus what we received in Halo 3 ODST, it's actually a complete tragedy.
I can see why bungie pre-recorded the demo. Even with large amounts of time to prep and update to minimize glitches, you can still see glitches and the game engine really struggling when you are not perfectly on the rails.
The best demo ever needs to be remaster it
this is awesome
Surreal
Too bad this was to complicated
For them to actually have it in the game. This mission actually feels like an invasion with you being dropped right on the front lines of the defense and counter attack. The outskirts that made it into the game is great but it feels like you are In just a run and gun skirmish until you get to metropolis.
They should remake the original story idea. With all the cut content
I’d give anything to play this demo now.
I’d pay good money 😂
they got this but they dont have 1.453 of mcc
Is this being played on an original xbox?
yep, the exact same one
@TheRealQuenny the same one from 2003?
@@YouNoMeDawg yes, as well as the same one from the 2018 mixer stream
@@TheRealQuenny that's nuts. They need to give us that xbe
@@YouNoMeDawg they are probably going to include all the other halo 2 stuff dumped from the Xbox when it comes out
You can still see some Halo CE in this, if that makes sense.
yeah, i think this demo was built off of a very stripped down pre-halo 2 BLAM engine.
After this demo got scrapped… I must admit, from an overall narrative standpoint, I became a little disappointed with the direction of Halo.
H2 was still an impressive game in the end, especially considering the full story behind the development… but envisioning a full game on this engine and weapon sandbox, with the dire tone they were pushing between this and the announcement trailer, and carrying it through a full campaign… it would’ve been incredible.
Is this coming to MCC for Xbox?
@@jesustrieseverything710 no sadly
Probably just rumors nothing else .
I was really hoping that at some point they'd add all this missing stuff to MCC on Xbox from the PC version (like all of the other Halo Online maps), but at this point I've really come to doubt they're updating the MCC on Xbox ever again
343/Halo studios finally brought back dual wielding!
You were always able to duel wield in halo 2
WAIT!!
So there is currently a playable version of this demo that they could release if they wanted to??
november 9th
The dude that says "Hostiles right" sounds irritated
I wish they kept the ability to dual wield while carrying a rifle
I Know spartan are better human but having battle rifle in one hand is pretty weird and not very precises
@@DESTY-N7 no I mean as shown in the video. Chief places the two smgs on his leg's magnetic holsters then equips the battle rifle as his third weapon.
343i just crying at the fact that a demo got more cheers than anything they've ever made
Idk man I heard more cheering for the unreal engine demo at HCS
If I ever become uber wealthy, I would pay Microsoft for a console with this build on it. Heck, I would pay them just to play it.
@@Turtle3000 they are releasing the original files for the demo as well as a playable rebuilt version on steam on November 9th
@@TheRealQuenny that’s so awesome, and iconically on Nov. 9th! 20th anniversary!
Wasn’t this coming out to mcc soon?
yeah its coming out on november 9th for the steam workshop (sadly still no xbox mods)
7:22 🤭 he really just kept going, too bad they didn't ever introduce brutes better. Could have had the revolt in the HALO 3 instead of HALO 2.
3:27 :,)
Gotta be honest I'm kinda upset this isn't the true Halo 2 E3 2003 build that Bungie showed off all the way back in 2003, I know it's fucking amazing to everyone but it still bums me out that the true original build is lost to time and this is just a recreation
nah it is, i have the recreation in the video in the desc
@@TheRealQuenny Wait it is actually the E3 2003 demo build made by Bungie that they showcased?? D:
I thought the entire thing was just entirely remade from the ground up for MCC
@@RedthegamingZoroark yes, it's also played on the same Xbox they showed off in 2018 mixer stream
@@TheRealQuenny I didn’t know that XD
Actually speaking of that mixer stream from 2018, has Digsite said anything about finding those prototype campaign missions from the second beta build 343 showed off in that stream after showing off the E3 2003 demo?? :v
I haven’t heard anything about Digsite finding those prototype missions yet and they’re called Earthcity, Delta Temple, Alpha Gasgiant, Sentinel HQ, and Delta control room
@@RedthegamingZoroark there did tease that were gonna release some other halo 2 things alongside the demo on mcc
Remember when 343 said they were working on adding this to mcc. Ahh.............
Bullshit
they literally are. see you November 9th.
i made a video of the footage of the restoration they are gonna add, which they showcased live
wow people still cheering for dual wielding. Man they need to get their priorities straight at that studio.
we also heard more cheering when they revealed halo studios at the event
They should have delayed Halo 2 one year and made it the flagship release for Xbox 360. They would have been able to finish the game they wanted to make. Microsoft ruins (almost) everything.
I really do think they could have pulled this off if they had a good B-team put together a standalone expansion for the first game. Package it with some new multiplayer maps and the ones from the first game's PC port with new Xbox Live capability, it could have held fans over for another year.
is this IN ENGINE, dude?
nah its same stripped down engine they showed off in 2003
Ash Williams Army of darkness or Josh McGrath / Max Steel or Action Man 1993 or Guts / Gatsu berserk be like John-117 or Noble 6 B-312 or Lord Saladin or Lord Shaxx or Zavala Destiny, Elizaberth Betsy Braddock / Psylocke or Setsuna Meiou / sailor pluto or Kaine or A2 Nier be like Cortana, Duke Nukem rises from the ashes, Groovy Hayabusa Armor and Spartan Nicole-458 from dead or alive, theory or clue Halo is the future from the real life
Miss you so much in the new halo era Marty O’Donell 😢
Landing safely? Cringe
We need Halo to go back to how it was. H4 and 5 sucked. Infinite is better than both but it’s still not Halo.
I don't think Infinite is better. the game is too childish there literaly no blood and explosion are just not good as og games..
THIS IS SO GOOOOOOOD