Halo 2 - E3 2003 Gameplay Demo Trailer [HD] 

What about halo 3?

@@BUC1001 it was too much for the OG Xbox and it was not able to run it in general so the level got cut from the game sadly

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Why can’t this be a mission 😪

@@WoofWoofWhisper it didn't get cut, it got changed

I noticed that too

I wish you could select fire the BR from burst to a semi auto.

Yes. I was pissed when I actually played the game and realized that had been removed.

@@MattSipka interestingly that was a feature in the halo 2 beta!

That’s exactly what I came here for, to compare halo infinite br’s to hahaha

Technological graphics limitation sucks held them back a lot.... if they had the spirit and creativeness and full control without a deadline.. this game would of been a masterpiece. Sadly they all moved onto other projects or just retired at this point since bungee split up a decade ago

Darkhalo314 Probably didn’t help that the Xbox couldn’t run it.

Drann Nervial it still confuses me on why they couldnt have just saved the engine until the xbox 360

@@valentiyne they did. You have halo 3.

If you guys watch Marty O’donells vidDocs, he explains somewhere that the engine would constantly crash. There’s a vid somewhere that shows the gameplay and how laggy it was

yeah I just noticed that too

They never can 😑

The whole thing was smoke and mirrors and it had be played exactly right for it to work or else it would break

@@rugerjensen22 "OK Billy, when you're running the demo today remember you need to play like you're so drunk you can't stand up and you're blind in 1 eye. If you don't the demo will explode and we'll fire your ass. Now get out there and make us some money Bobby"

@@somelolplayer6199 That was false. The demo works fine.

That's actually the only time the word shit is ever said in a halo game.

*hands up*

the good old days before the new world order came up like these days , before the internet

@@hiphop90s98 ah

@@CryoIsLazy those were the days man now we are just beeing brainwashed to buy into all their stuff they giving us nothing badass and memorable anymore like those games pure CLASSICS

You...you know like none of this made it in to the final game right

Same sometimes i wish i woulda cherished those times more

@@FluidityTheVaper AYe I agree but that shit is sad

@@cirocjones9886 yuuup wish we had a time machine

@@FluidityTheVaper meanwhile: Iraq 2003....

I was in 9th grade. My brother got down work around 11 and picked both our copies up. I played it for an hour but couldn’t sleep. Next day I was tired as hell. Soon as I got home tiredness went away and played all night.

Nickolas Lauritsen I feel like it could be 2004 for like bug fixes and betas. Hopefully it comes out in 2003.

MythicTyrant demo just a demo

I'm still waiting for it.

I love your full campaign channel

Never. This is not included in the game.

I think the doom 2016 created the most hype I've ever seen in my time. And eternal.

It came on a Xbox magazine disc and my buddies and I watched it 20+ times. Lol

@@adamgordon3163 Na

@Arithmetic how is Doom 2016 trash?

I still have the original xbox and halo with this demo on it

its coming in MCC soon!

@@Conner06 no way

ya man check out the halo waypoint blogpost think its called "digsite" or something. Gonna be awesome @@lilbickleymane

​@@lilbickleymanethere actually was a huge mod recently released that was basically the entirety of the cut content restored, with the exception of the Forerunner Tank mission. Single fire battle rifle with custom melee, destructible Phantoms, the Flood Juggernaut, cut dialogue, cut weapons, more allies, etc. HiddenXperia shows it off.

Yeah it’s made by vadam the mod is quite terrible now since vadam got rid of the E3 battle rifle due to the animations for the elite being messed up, which is really shitty since it’s the main reason I first downloaded vadam’s halo 2 uncut mod in the first place.

Can never let the marines drive

OJ or Kat

Moral of the story is never let any A.I. drive

@@StarMarshal I agree, but I think they can drive if it's a scripted event like what is shown in this demo.

Grandma jokes

343 do something right? "Were it so easy"

Me

Wait can we play this soon?

@Mr. Blue when, how, where?

Huh when times were simple

Yep, a Halo 2 that's about defending Earth from the Covenant, an Earth that actually looks futuristic. Not mud huts with wires on them.

@@excaliburr7789 we got ODST at least

It's the fans' faults that you didnt lmao, "wE cAnT wAiT aNoThEr yEaR" they had so much more they wanted to put into the game but noooo, entitled fans had to have it out THEN

@@tropicmix8765 no its not, a lot of stuff the console just couldnt run at a reasonable framerate so it was scrapped.

@@tropicmix8765 No, it's Microsoft who didn't give Bungie enough time.

they had to start over again in the mid of production and because they didnt have enough time alot was cut

Thank you, Hugh. But... Hugh Mungus what?

Chancellor Banemarck they had to do a hugh mungus cut

Chancellor Banemarck did you happen to get this and watch it over and over again on the original xbox demo disk!? xD ahahahahaa

Chancellor Banemarck this is what made me get halo 2 and then i played it i was like wait what....still a good game however

And then the invasion of Iraq 2003 happened when this trailer was released....

Bungie's admitted to Eurogamer that the Halo 2 E3 2003 presentation was a fanciful snapshot of a game that could never be recreated on Xbox hardware. "The graphics engine that we showed at E3 2003, driving around the Earth city... That entire graphics engine had to be thrown away, because you could never ship a game on the Xbox with it," said Chris Butcher, engineering lead on Halo 2. "Through putting ourselves through hell, we were able to do a five-minute demo of it, but after we came back from E3 we had to admit that this graphics engine was never going to work - it was never going to support the kind of environments that are really important for a Halo game." "So we literally scrapped the entire graphics engine and started from scratch."

You're on!

Reserved for the German press corps apparently

343 is doing many good things with the master chief collection, which is good.

Justin Marks they were gonna add the E3 demo, but it was so broken and they decided not to...

@@fastestbasket4327 where did you hear that lmfao.

@@-Gal4xy- a 343i stream years ago. They tried to put the e3 demo of halo 2 into the MCC, but every time the player took one step off the predecided path, the game would crash. So they eventually decided not to add it in

@@ethanmckernan2773 Is there an archive of this stream?

@@-Gal4xy- idk. Probably somewhere

343 are going to include the level "Earthcity" in MCC nearly 20 years after.

@@dimitarbatchvarov319What? Link something about this?

correct, even the grunts were halo ce models and the elites as well.

It is halo ce. Just a very pretty one with doom 3 tech under the hood. Bless the eternal omnissiah to be John Carmack for that one. Guys like the Chief but an engineer rather than a soldier.

Technically, the SMG has the same stats as the CE assault rifle

The BR was originally a burst when hip firing and single shot while ADS. I think it would have been interesting to have that version of the BR

@@exoticbutters4212 then we wouldn't of had a dmr

@@Bazzable true. But the old battle rifle is an interesting concept nonetheless

@@exoticbutters4212 I agree

I love this game and this is my favorite

Compared to the final version this felt more like a warzone with UNSC Marines carrying their wounded and dead back from combat which is something that happens in real life because I've seen footage of urban fighting which men were being carried back on stretchers injured or killed.

Lol was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂

This looks better than Halo Infinity

@@gamagonzalez368 true

@@gamagonzalez368 Craig: "I know what the gamers like"

@@gamagonzalez368 that's a fact i came here to compare the 2 games and i have to says story-wise infinite is kinda ass but the gameplay is not too bad in comparison but halo 2 was a phenomenal game and my personal favorite !!!

pandaoman I agree yes I technically don’t know but based off of the gameplay trailer with that bit of story in comparison to the other halo game trailers and games makes it seem very lack luster not to mention the crazy amount of plot holes from halo 4 to 5 and 5 to 6 and I’m a gamer I’m not reading those damn books to know every little thing in between even Marty o donnell criticized 343 for that too sorry for all the text hope this helps

This game is awesome

It's the reason why I came and watched it

I wonder if they add anniversary graphics for the level

@@tuomas9024 That would really interesting

​@@tuomas9024 I'd be absolutely amazed if that happened

​@@tuomas9024were it so easy. From what i gather this demo isnt halo 2. Its halo ce. Not sure if the conversion from ce to 2a is necessarily possible. Ce to ce anniversary maybe as they are likely the closest match for compatibility. Real question is if they gave the master files over or not. That way its less a reimagining and more of a recreation of the halo 1.5 build that is this demo.

Same bro... same.

🙏🏻👊🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

wish granted, im here bc it's supposedly being remade

In a lot of ways, ODST plays like Halo 1 and 2. Very underrated Halo game tbh.

@@internetmeta Yeap. Still my favorite right after Halo 2 and Reach

That's because in Halo 2 you crash in Old Mombasa and enter New Mombasa once you cross the bridge which looks more like ODST.

@@ottovonbismarck1375 that moment when a historical figure comes to teach you history about the future

@@schwig44 this is a fucking time paradox We all going to die

hopefully it doesn't get canceled/take too long

@@PrinceMuma Probably will take awhile seeing how the demo was held together with sticks and some glue. For real, the thing was on the verge of crashing thats why the demo had to be played the way it did.

They're making it.

Looks like you’re getting your wish

Vaseline?

@@masterofdisguise1112 I think he is referring to how classic Halo 2 graphics look slightly blurry and distorted.

This mission is most similar to the end of Metropolis.

it was probably scripted for the presentation.

It's definitely scripted, but sometimes developers have to scrap content that worked better in previous iterations due to technicalities. For example, Red Faction Guerilla's destruction did not carry over to future games because the system was incredibly complex to make and was not compatible with newer engines that future games used.

Yeah, It's scripted. Because it's a demo they just follow a way point scripted path since it's only a demo. AI driving still has a way to go even in today's games, but it's definitely improving. I remember playing Halo 2 and they'd crash non stop, lol.

Ten years? Twenty years mate lol

19 years

The skyscrapers also have greater resemblance to their ODST counterparts

Me lol

Same here, and people talking shit about infinite, look at this gameplay of H2 and the H2 now (excluding anniversary) all I'm saying is that Infinite is going to be alright and let's hope for the best.

@@dakudragon2196 i hope you're right. Im just.. concerned.

@@Loganhundred they are. Also interesting fact: those blocky structures are the inner workings of The Halo Ring. Go and look in the last cutscene in HW2 and you'll know.

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One of the reasons why I love ODST, has that kind of art style

I kinda wish we got that version too. I’ve seen one mod where someone got it to fire semi auto like the DMR. I think they also nodded the DMR in Reach to burst fire and I kinda like the burst for that better.

The reason for halo 2’s final product was because they basically scrapped this version of the game and started anew and they were rushed to put the game out, thus the reasoning for the levels making it feel like its not as open and non linear like halo combat evolved because they had time and had the resources to make it feel open world-ish whereas halo 2 they didn’t have luxury of time and they had to cut a shit load of things in order to get us this game.

@@YaBoyA1pha as well as almost basically all of halo 3 was planned for halo 2

Cody Gore and your point?

Microsoft could've released this as a launch title for the Xbox 360 since that console came out in 2005. We could've had this by then.

Guilty as charged.

It really wasn’t. Not Halo 2 at least.

This was scrapped after E3. It's not the real Halo 2

Me either

GamingSpider 115 no there was going to be a completely new mission after Cairo but it was cut. It was going to be boarding a carrier and destroying it, this was replaced by the cut scene with the bomb

Here after the campaign overview :)

nothing today is really that bad - but everything's disappointing - and somehow honestly that feels worse

@@maybetomorrowmaybe Most AAA games look and feel like it's the exact same game over and over again. A lot of "high production" games today are bland as fuck.

@@Dennis19901 right? where did the creativity go? it's like every dev only does the bare minimum any more and it's never about making a game they're actual passionate about - just about pumping out a product

@@maybetomorrowmaybe I blame gaming becoming more mainstream. Most developers/publishers seem to aim for the quick buck. this is indicated by games releasing like a buggy mess and having little to no free after-care. Once the title is out there, it's out there. Pre-order shite seems to ramp up every next generation of games as well. With some games offering pre-order bundles upwards of 200 bucks. Don't forget they all include in-game bonusses as well, rather than just some nifty collectors things. In fact, there are more and more games that offer pre-order bonusses that are exclusively digital. (Nice and cheap for them to sell air). And all the dude-bros that have 2 hours a week to play games just splash money on these shit titles anyway. They play some random AAA copy-paste for a good week before they are tired of it and move to the next pre-order. That's why many indie developers still produce good games. They aren't primarily in it for the buck, but still for the passion. Big game industries are run like a for-profit company and they do literally everything to squeeze out maximum profits.

I remember them dying just as easily in halo reach, but I could be wrong since it's been a long time since I've played that campaign.