Bungie's ORIGINAL Halo 3 Campaign REVEALED 

Use me as a 'I want to live in the Guardian Forest or Forerunner City' button

Man Halo 3 is my favorite piece of media on the planet and not a day goes by where I don't wish that we got a directors cut with all of these levels fully restored with voiced dialogue and cutscenes.

3:20 it’s just because the covenant occupied earth so the UNSC in essence became “the rebellion” with their own hidden base

“They originally planned for chief to ACTUALLY SHOW HIS CHEEKS to the prophet of truth, in what would have bean (cause his accent) the most ICONIC mooning in all of Halo lore”

The Ark is my favorite location in Halo, it would’ve been so sick to have that Guardian Forest and Forerunner City level.

If Halo 3 ever gets remade, I hope these cut levels get added into the game. Giving us more of the Halo 3 campaign would be so much fun. Guardian Forest, Forerunner City, and High Charity would be so amazing to play.

“We’ll watch Home Alone and give head to Truth.” -Mattress Chef

I was hoping for Halo 3 Uncut.

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I always felt Halo 3 was short by 1 mission. It was a good game but definitely felt shorter than CE or 2, and even Reach. Even ODST felt longer because of the open world aspect.

"Tartarus, Bill Gates has betrayed us".

This is why I pray we get a full remake for H3 instead of just an anniversary reskin like CE and 2. Too much filler for the first quarter and Arbiter is just a sidekick for most of the story.

@5:00 they did make campaign levels designed from multiplayer maps. The building you go into on halo reach new Alexandria is based on the halo 2 map

AREEES!!! GIVE ME BUNGIES ORIGINAL HALO 3 AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!

If forerunner city was to ever be made in a halo 3 remake, damn. My body would levitate so high you’d need the space station to retrieve me.

Although I love the Halo 3 story, I always felt like it was very short.

I would've loved for seeing some Scandinavian area done, to see where Mjolnir armour was made, or tested, sort of a poetic thing, as produce and test a product made in place where name originated from. And I imagine a lot people would've loved having big forest maps, where elites or brutes would stalk you around, having open fights, but also tight spaces thanks to the trees. Could have so much potential

Honestly if they were to actually make a Halo 3 Anniversary but with these extra environments and enemies and missions and whatnot interspersed between things so we have a remaster of the things we got while also getting the cut content along with it I would…..well I would have a lot less of a social life I’ll say that. The guardian forest and forerunner city areas just look so goddamn cool and that whole high charity sequence sounds awesome and let me just say if the sequence with the Stratosentinels looked half as cool as it does in my head just based on the description it would probably be my favorite thing from any video game.

We have a fan made "Halo 2 uncut", we need a Halo 3 uncut next! Restore all this cut content!

Halo 3 is the first halo game I played when I was about 9 years old. Played it over and over again and can’t believe we haven’t got a remake yet

The time limit was the thing that killed it :( I would have gladly waited how long they needed to make this

Wow, besides the cut guardian level, I had no clue this was Bungie’s original plan/idea for the game. This makes sense because I remember how people working at Bungie would describe the game in the forums on Bungie’s website back during the game’s EARLY development. And THIS lines up with the grand scale/“epicness” they would describe. This is much more accurate to what I envisioned/anticipated. I remember on their weekly update postings they’d put out every Friday, they mentioned how most of the earth levels were directly connected and how vast and expansive the game/levels were going to be along with having a drastic increase in the shear size of some of the battles compared to the previous games. I get why they made the cuts and decisions, but my god, this would’ve been fucking incredible.

i feel proud knowing my city was in the game

Halo 3 uncut when?

A bunch of those Forerunner City assets were repurposed for the Reach Forge objects. You can see some of the structure objects from Reach in the screenshots of the level.

I remember an old Bungie guy said they cut the Forerunner City because “we didn’t want to humanize the Forerunners” I’d say the Terminals did that on its own, but I digress. This bandage has been torn off now. You know what this means? If the Leak saying 343 (which has fully new Staff) is remaking Halo 1 to 3, they can finally Add this Cut Forerunner City and the other Cut levels! The Books have made Forerunner Living Spaces sound amazing: Rooms that are Larger on the Inside, Doors that Teleport you to Rooms with no doors, Programmable Metal allowing for full customization. Warden Eternal reveals that Forerunner Ancillas basically see Master Chief and the Spartan 2’s as being the Equivalent to Warrior-Servants. As Warden Eternal refers to Chief as a “Warrior-Servant” while he refers to Agent Locke as merely a “Spartan” Knowing this, when Chief walks into a Forerunner Loving Space, it could “come to life” and Consoles, Furniture and maybe AIs could just appear out of thin air, and disappear when he leaves!

It's so sad to see how much potential the original Halo games had which they weren't able to put out either because of time or hardware limitations.. and nowadays we have Halo infinite...

A level based on blood gulch😮😮😳😳! My oh my! If only we got that!! So much stuff they cut out😮!

I loge how instead of a Chieftain they show a Brute Honor Guard with Truth and Miranda here 21:30

Vengeful Vadam needs to make a Halo 3 uncut

I have to get this off my chest. H3's (*20*) year anniversary is literally around the corner! 343 has a monumental title like The Master Chief Collection and we're not utilizing it to its fullest potential, WHY!? Make H3 Anniversary, Put split-screen co-op in H5 and Infinite like it always should have had, add it all on MCC. then you have your entire player base all in one place and you have more time to develop the next main line Halo. I mean am I the fucking crazy person here???

The only thing realistic locations we got was the galaxy in the background of space, indicating that somewhere deep in space the planets or rings exist but a solid theory easter egg because in 1 mission a ODST comments about the galaxy but was cut off like he knows something that we don't.

Yeah, if the CE remake is a success we need this with all the original ideas put back in for sure

4 seconds no views? Bro didnt fall off hes just ahead of the curve :) love you bro

Dude you do such a good job breaking down and explaining such an expansive and complicated missing part of Halo, keep it up!

Halo 3 is my favorite game in the series and it introduced me to Halo in the first place and hearing how the game was originally supposed to be makes me pray that if it were to get a Remake I would love for all those concepts and ideas to be implemented!

Oh my... this original Halo 3 campaign would've really been something else! I doubt we'd get any of this in a remaster, but mods are always on the table for these kind of things. I mean, look at SPV3 👀

Just when you thought Halo 3 was already awesome, then you find it originally was going to be that and even more. This reminds me a lot the Half Life 2 beta, many of the cut ideas are absolutely amazing and it's disappointing they were cut, but in the end we still got an incredible game. We definitely need Halo 3 Uncut.

This game sits as my #1 alongside halo reach

Bungie DID manage to incorporate one multiplayer map section into a campaign level. Rather small but it’s there (ONI: Sword Base/Sword Base from Halo: Reach). If none hadn’t already noticed until now, now that I bring this up.

Yo! We need a Halo 3 original vision cut NOW!

Every cut content video makes me happier about the possible remake of the the series

So tsavo township was probably a complete level that was in between tsavo highway and the storm. In the cutscene for the storm you roll up with a bunch of hogs and marines so you were probably suppose to fight through an industrial town, get reinforcements and then the storm starts

This would have been a spectacular mission cinematic wise for halo 3. I really wish they kept it in!!

That scene you had of the scarab blowing up, how come no one mentions it? Seeing the missile strike the turret and then it supernovas is just perfect.

I feel like these levels sound good on paper but in execution wouldve been either bad or not up to their standards which arguably were pretty high and what gave us such amazing games. That being said I do wanna see them somehow brought to life but I cant really see that happening in an official capacity.

I really hope if they do a remake of the first three games, they take it further and implement these ideas. Imagine spending more time seeing the space battle against truths fleet with the big sentinels. That got me thinking about the cutscene in halo wars 2. Man there's so much potential.

I don't doubt that someone in the community could build this out in the MCC. The amazing community is the one aspect of Halo that has endured all of these years 🙌🏼

the wraith mortar shot at 19:56

Tbh hoping that one day halo modding gets to a a point where someone manages to add these sections into the game.

As long as it fits properly within the story. A lot of things were cut for brevity’s sake, like the back to back floodvoi and floodship levels.

I would've loved to see the E3 trailer demo for Halo 2 as a playable level, sort of like a call back/Easter egg.

I've been bing watching your channel all day! Glad we got another video, I can't wait to get into Halo again!

For your reference, please note the following: The removed content forms Halo's ture lore. ONI intentionally expunged it from its records to safeguard its most confidential secrets.

11:53 I can't look at this anymore without seeing Offensive Bias

A couple years ago my mother-in-law visited the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Voi, as part of a Conservancy group as she is an environmental attorney. I further cemented the fact to her that I wasn’t worthy of her daughter, when I started nerding out over the fact of where she was, and what she was close to in Halo.

I like it. Bungie's last ride with Master Chief. They should've made the campaign as large as possible. I always thought Halo 3 was just cut content from Halo 2 with some filler and culminating in the defeat of the Covenant and the flood. This is amazing, thanks for sharing

You had me at flood scarab

Imagine Halo 3 being only levels on earth, where Chief makes his way from his crash site to Voi, and then in Voi a few levels of clearin anti air and a few levels clearing the flood from earth, and then some epic cutscebe when Unsc and shipmaster ships arrive at Ark after entering the portal. And then halo 4 would have been an end to the halo bungie series, of Chief hunting down Truth on the ark, and well, finishing rhe fight

Some quality editing!

Glad you've flushed these levels out. For the past several years I've been sketching ideas for my hypothetical Halo game. Mine would follow a team of Spartan IIIs like noble team after H3 but, before H4 in the outskirts of UNSC space. The game would open with my Spartans, "Gallant Team".Who would be inspecting the ONI listening site, Ellipsis Station just above the world of Periphery IV. While abourd Ellipsis Station they are informed by the stations crew that they went radio silent when ONI probes detected Covenant ships passing in the vicinity once an ancient foreign object was recovered and accidentally triggered by ONIs agents. Soon after this revelation a Covenant fleet appears in space above the planet and are engaged by UNSC forces. While engaging the "Covenant" forces onboard the station you start to realize theses "Covenant have seemingly never encountered humans before!? While enacting Cole Protocol on Ellipsis Station and the grounside site, Tycho Station, you learn they are the "Ascendent". A sect of the Covenant that have been forcefully expelled by the Covenant for blasphemy against the High Council. Later the player discovers through playing as an Ascended Elite known as "Thovu the Faithful" that the leaders of the Ascendent known as the "Sublime" hate the Forerunners and believe them to be the enemies of the ones the Sublime worship. There's more but, suffice it to say learning about these cut levels a couple of years ago inspired me to work elements of these levels into my game concept. Now I just have to get into programming and modding. 😂

They should honestly remake the whole series with all the ideas bungie wanted. It would probably be the best approach

Modders watching this about to do gods work for us

If they do remake Halo 1,2 & 3 they should remake the games as they were level by level so you can still enjoy the game experience as it was originally created, and then as an option you can select the extended version where they add in all of the cut content/levels to create a second more complete experience of the original visions for the campaigns. That’s how I’d like to see it done…Am I right Marines!?

I even had idea to use a level based on Guardian as a kid. Good times

18:38 and there comes 343 with Halo 4, the didact, and a whole ass trilogy of books to give everything away about the forerunners

This is a great video. The designer of the forerunner city level share this pictures on Twitter. Someone commented "I don't like this design. The architecture looks too human". I responded that this was the intention. Humans were forerunners in the original Bungie plans. I got a like from said designer, implying that they agreed with me. I can't wait for your video regarding Bungie's original plan regarding your forerunners. There was a clear indecision/difference of opinion regarding what to do with the forerunners within Bungie at the time. Too many people say "the forerunners being a different species was clearly the original intent", but in a world where contact harvest exists, written by the lead story writer of the original trilogy, we know that the decision was never cut and dry.

A bunch of modders should get together and recreate this campaign near 1 to 1 it would be epic

Guardian Forest and High Charity are my absolute holy grails of cut Halo content, and I would absolutely LOVE to get a faithful restoration of them, even if it was just partial.

instead of Halo CE remake, they should've recycled these ideas and just replace the Chief for a different character so it can take place during the events of Halo 3 or maybe before/after around it (kinda like ODST)

The campaign that we got for halo 3 was perfect, a monumental task that bungie had to prove to all of us, and still came on top, and is the best game bungie ever created!😃

I can’t tell if I would rather have the full Halo 2 (which means no Halo 3 at all), or the full Halo 3.

Imagine if halo 3 got the spv3 treatment and have some stuff bungie wanted.

I sincerely want them to bring back the menu screens. I miss those menu screens. They were only possibly outdone by valves evolving main menu screens that changed through out the game but the loading screens. I still remember having a copy of halo 3 that was having issues running and noticing the halo finish building right after I installed it trying to get the game to run. Halo 4's loading screen felt disappointing in comparison as halo 3 acted as a clear marker. also I knew so little about halo that I actually thought the pillar of autumn was in halo 4 . I feel embarrassed about the misconceptions I had

My dream Halo Game is a full remake of Halo 2/3 put together as originally intended wit most of the cut content reinserted & the rest can be reused for Future installments like Halo 7

I wish someone would recreate these levels as a mod.

you know, it'd be pretty cool if they were to remake Halo 3, instead of changing the direction of the campaign, have a small elite side squad venturing into remade cut levels similar to the arbiter missions of H2

Dude Guardian Forest is somewhat made in the Minecraft Xbox One Edition and Halo Mashup, it’s so cool

Halo 3 and RS are my tied GOAT games. I really hope we get a Halo 3 remake, according to the original ambitious specs, at some point in the future. We got OSRS, anything is possible!

Okay so if Halo CE's remake is an utter banger then I will honestly hope that 2 and 3 get remakes and that they're MASSIVE!

Tsavo Township sounds like the first campaign level of Reach. At least that's the way I imagined it'd be laid out.

The ground shots of forerunner city look a tad mass effect inspired specifically halofied ilos tbh. Though if 343 decided to finally take a break and create a stand alone side story tangentially set on the ark post halo wars 2. A set of spartan 4's come across the forerunner city and with a team of onboard scientists ply it's depths and networks for some tech to re engineer into existing unsc tech etc etc.

Halo 3 is a game that makes me feel the same way Fallout: New Vegas does, in that it’s one of my favourite games of all time but god damn do I wish it got another year or so of development time cause with more time it could have been substantially better.

Hopefully if the CE Remake is successful and reimplements Cut Content, we can get the Same Treatment for 2 and 3, maybe Reach.

I don't know about you but forerunner city is exactly Ilos from mass effect 1. You finally discover the truth of the protheans by experiencing their desolate lost city

All of this makes me want to keep waiting for Halo 3 anniversary in 2027 even more. I guess a fan of the franchise can only dream for it

I feel like the cut earth levels were warranted since I never thought the levels on earth (besides the storm) were nearly as interesting as the once’s on the Ark. Also I would have kept Guardian Forest and Forerunner city except they would be combined or they would both take place between The Ark and The Covenant. Stretching out the city section would completely destroy the pacing of the Covenant’s final section because Truth is about to fire the Rings so there is no time to explore the city. I would keep High Charity how it was.

it’s interesting that the final mission would’ve been the covenant cruiser by the portal. in a way, the original halo 3 e3 teaser showed people the intended ending without anyone even knowing. i wonder what made them do that

we better get a Halo 3: Uncut like they did for Halo 2

Man I’ve had a script saved for YEARS I got randomly that’s so close to this

Interesting about the ripping out of guardian eyes and using them as weapons. They ended up recycling that concept in Destiny by the players (guardians) doing that to some Vex units.

Man, i hate trting to look at the back of my hand and see the entire Halo 3 campaong

3:20. It seems more likely to me that the name “Rebel Base” is a reference to Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Crow’s Nest as it is has a somewhat similar theme to the Hoth battle anyway: base has been discovered by the overwhelming enemy force, time to evacuate it while holding off the enemy as long as possible.

there are some different ideas and changes and things in a super early halo 3 alpha, the first campaign playtest build, sadly the data was so fragmented that the missions couldnt be saved at all, but the main menu was able to be saved and the video cutscenes, most of it used concept art, someone actually uploaded all these too on youtube, lots of small things were changed and the strato sentinel makes a surprise appearance

I knew you were making video when i saw you in theater mode for H3 😂

Thank you, HX. My goodness this would have been glorious and…all time on the list of game experiences. Yeah, if they have remaster they need to retro the story with all of this.

Hopefully the rumored remake sells well so we can get Halo 2 remake and halo 3 Remake

Has anyone at bungie/343 ever cofirmed the name of the replacement ring... I've heard people call it 08, I've heard 04B, and the one from halo wars 2 was 04C

I think the Rebel Base level is just referring to Crow’s Nest. I pretty sure its a just a Star Wars reference and not a reference to Innies. But thats just what I got

It is only a matter of time before some beautiful modders add this original cut to mcc on Steam