Bungie’s ORIGINAL HALO 2 CAMPAIGN has BEEN RESTORED!

[@TheVengefulVadam]

Thank you so much!! 🥺

[@HiddenXperia]

KING! Amazing job with the mod man, some of the most fun I've had playing classic Halo campaign in a hot minute

[@KrisKlicks]

YOURE THE GOAT!!!!!!!

[@Beregond1861]

This is what makes Halo such a historic game series: people who are willing to go above and beyond the average and assemble such a wonderful work of love to this amazing game.

[@quiksilvr90]

Thank you for your passion! I know the Halo devs probably have the same love for the game, but I hope the corporate overlords see how much the fans appreciate your work and loosen the reigns on 343 devs

[@shitguy7615]

Big G

[@JadeRunner]

They also cut a story element where it was established that Miranda Keyes is angry at Chief because she doesn't understand why he couldn't save her father. ONI kept all information on the Flood top secret and forbade Chief, Cortana and Johnson from telling anyone about it. Consequently, the true circumstances around Jacob Keyes's death were withheld from everyone including Miranda. Apparently Miranda was originally going to be really cold towards Chief until the 2nd half when she encounters the Flood and would have realized it wasn't his fault and that Chief did her father a favor by crushing his skull.

[@chunkynumnums]

That would've been such an interesting dynamic! Then seeing them build more of a relationship into halo 3 would've been satisfying.

[@kassarc16]

All she would have known is the Chief had killed her father, and she was going to get revenge by somehow using him as a sacrificial bomb against the Flood. It's honestly a sub par story idea and better off cut.

[@minimachomestead]

​@kassarc16 The way it was planned, with Miranda tricking Chief and trying to kill him basically, is absolute garbage, I agree. But the way OP described it sounds way better and I would be on board with it. Regardless, I'm happy we got Halo 2 the way it is!

[@Dylan-xx2tk]

Thank god they cut that out. It wouldn't make any sense. I don't know when the expanded media came out that detailed how there were additional survivors from Halo CE (and explained how Johnson escaped), but originally, Chief and Cortana were the only two to make it out of there, with Johnson escaping on his own because plot armor. Everyone else on the PoA died as well. I don't think it would make much story sense, nor would it be fair, for her to be demanding why Chief couldn't save her father when he was unable to save _anyone._ Honestly, she would probably across as a "Del Rio" type character, and I don't think I've EVER heard anyone say he was a good character. I dunno, I figure having that dynamic would just have players hating Miranda and I couldn't see this story arc doing her character any favors really.

[@stevenfriedman2902]

@@Dylan-xx2tk They explained how Johnson survived in a book called First Strike that takes place immediately after the first Halo game. Him and other marines were in a pelican when the Halo exploded and Chief picked up their signal when scanning for other possible IFF tags and docked with them.

[@gmmg8734]

The original original version was going to have even more levels and The Arbiter and Chief banding together to fight Truth on earth at the end! That would've been epic😭

[@John-X]

i can't believe they restored all this content. i wonder what Marty O'Donnell has to say about this, it would be so cool to hear his thoughts about this

[@CreeperPlaysGames373]

Although if that had happened we probably wouldn’t have any more halos which some people would say is a good thing but I’m glad we’re still getting games even if they are… rough around the edges. Plus getting halo 3 odst and reach were indirectly caused by halo 2s rough development

[@DaBoiMoles]

Halo 3 wouldn't have been so good then

[@B463L]

Honestly it sounds like we did end up getting that. Halo 3

[@Pen_Slinger]

So that's why the Outskirts mission has so many snipers and why they're so strong, you were meant to sneak past them while taking out the enemy silently with detection being punished by those aimbot snipers.

[@MOxMOxDAMONSTER]

You could actually get out of the map a tad and run it like the sniper mission in CE. Although you won't have that massive ammo count so you'd be stuck with a beam rifle and sniper. It didn't feel the same but it was close.

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@MOxMOxDAMONSTER yes Truth and Reconciliation

[@tjjordan4207]

Quick! Someone tell the Act Man.

@@MOxMOxDAMONSTER Yeah I remember having to pull that trick with a friend just to get past the courtyard bit on Legendary because the snipers would just spawn in randomly and one shot ya. Same as with Delta Halo, on your way to the Temple you can get out of the map too, only issue is that no enemies spawn and you cannot leave the level unless you drop back into an arena before the last checkpoint.

[@LILAC_CHAOS]

You can just parkour up a pipe to get on top the roofs and get the drop on the snipers

[@ciriak]

25:48 Thoses banshees desperatly trying to destroy a Pelican before it spread the infection even more is a very nice lttle detail

[@L1ttleWarrior13]

There's another one at the very beginning of high charity too. A pelican drops off some carrier forms, but I'd you keep watching, it flies off overhead of your spawn and you can watch a banshee desperately chase it into the lower city, it's so cool

[@Christian-o8t9n]

It's in the bottom left corner for those having trouble finding it.

[@anthonydiaz8774]

The fact that this game had such a rocky development and came out as probably the most successful addition to the franchise is still mind blowing to this day 😂😂😂

[@mnrvaprjct]

343 seems to be trying to repeatedly recreate the tension that brought H2 into existence…. and failing horribly at it everytime

[@CD-Gaming]

@@mnrvaprjct Is that why we still haven't got a Halo 5? Or, with Infinite, would it be 6 now...?

[@TheBig451]

@@CD-Gaming There is literally Halo 5: Guardians

[@CD-Gaming]

@@TheBig451 I've never heard of that game before, I've heard of "5 Guardians", but with the Halo suffix? Are you sure? Nah, I would have seen it in the shops or on Xbox Live!

[@DabroodThompson]

Other than pioneering console multiplayer Halo 2 is not the most successful addition to the franchise. Halo 3 sold better and honestly handled multiplayer better (especially custom games and forge). Halo Reach was also great in its own way, despite having a more controversial multiplayer it was a much more fully realized game than Halo 2.

[@SparrowEmpire]

The shields above the radar is something I desperately want the ability to put back. It doesn't have to be the default, but it was perfect because your eyes are constantly glancing there...meaning you look to one spot for both points of info. It's not weird. It was the best IMO.

[@Arrath777]

It was a ui change that made perfect sense!

[@knightofarnor2552]

"What's next, Grunt Hierarchs?!" "For all I have seen today, I would not be surprised." 10/10 exchange.

[@bigchiefchance]

Definitely reminds me of the two elites who chat during the gondola ride in Quarantine Zone. *Tatarus flights Phantom to harass the humans* Elite #1 "That fool! He'll alert them to our presence!" Elite #2 "Look on the bright side, maybe they'll shoot him down?"

[@timtam2400]

Elites are the best Covenant race hands down

[@michaellane5381]

Hierarch of Monkey business?

[@schlomoshekelbergowitz]

wortwortwort

[@Gille-mm1cr]

They totally predicted YapYap the Destroyer.

[@BigZestyPickle]

The extra survivors on Sentinel Wall would have been such an amazing way to set the levels mood early on. Now that's not to say seeing the scattered bodies and the dialogue of the survivors didn't do a good job. But it really hits that much harder how dangerous your situation is when you gather up those survivors, feeling like you have a good sized and well equipped team, just to watch them all get cut down. Being left alone and caught between two enemies that tore through your allies like they were nothing.

[@omegawarlord]

Time stamp?

[@LovelyDilly630]

Halo 2 will always be one of my favorite video games of all time. The story, the characters and the OST. I honestly couldn’t imagine it being better until now.

[@Freelancer837]

Tbf a lot of this isn't even as good as base Halo 2, so still waiting for someone to make a version that's better

[@JadeRunner]

This mod is interesting but regular Halo 2 will always be the GOAT.

[@theshanamaster]

someone tell marty

[@Railhog2102]

Same, Used to play it ages ago as a kid on the og Xbox

[@ryanhamstra49]

@@theshanamasterhe’s killing the marines marty!!

[@fenderlicious2003]

"it feels like a real plasma cannon" fired a lot of those, have you?

[@Omni-Man]

I remember as a kid trying desperately to get the Wraith's mini-turrets to work, literally hours and hours pressing the most random button combinations refusing to believe I just couldn't

[@aeronautisch]

Also with trying to pilot the Shadow in Metropolis. Or the pelican you could flip in the same level. Or the phantom that's docked at the beginning of High Charity.

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

For real. The fact they have them work for NPCs but NOT YOU is fucking bullshit.

[@alexdenton1174]

My boys, use the Unit Possession glitch to play as a marine or Elite and watch as your wraith can now use the mini secondary turrets. Not perfect but they absolutely work! 👌

[@GingerNingerGames]

I think I'm having a berenstein bears moment because I remember them working, I might be thinking of a halo:CE mod that added the halo 2 wraith though. I also don't remember the needler being bad. So who knows

[@Omni-Man]

@@GingerNingerGames I was certain if they worked for the NPC's they should for me, Nada. Same on the Needler tho

[@brunothehumble]

the fun thing about the jackal shield is that part of spartan training was to have them pick up the shields any time they came across them and in at least one of the books we actually see spartan 3s(i think) picking them up and strapping them on. i remember hearing rumors of the jackal shield supposedly making an appearance in every single game after combat evolved.

[@shcdemolisher]

I just wish it was an actual thing in gameplay, both multiplayer and single. Would’ve been fun to mess with, forcing the enemy to change tactics on the spot, getting rid of enemy fire on you briefly. Urging you to rush them by having the sword and sheild on. Seriously that would be FUN!

[@NolDragon]

The evacuation of the two pelican pilots by the falcon is such a minor but good detail. And yes, the Flood invasion of High Charity has always been criminally underspoken about. It is a horrifying and tragic event considering the population of the holy city, a lot of them civilians.

[@Spongebrain97]

I remember as a kid being so intrigued by the Great Schism because it reminded me so much of Order 66 from Star Wars. And so hearing Cortana say the Jackals and Drones were loyal to the Brutes while the Hunters allied with the Elites but the grunts were too scared to choose, sounded so neat

[@MegaKrayZay]

Same, but I never understood why have Hunters ally with the Elites in Halo 2, then turned enemies in Halo 3. I can see why logically to have the tanks as enemies play wise, canonically they should’ve remained allies. Unless it was solely for the Arbiter, then learning he sided with Humanity, they turned.

[@Outcastsage9033]

@@MegaKrayZay if i recall correctly during the mission it gets mentioned that only those 2 hunters specifically chose to ally with the elites

[@MegaKrayZay]

@@Outcastsage9033 Yes, and in the level Gravemind, Hunters were fighting the Brutes

[@Outcastsage9033]

@@MegaKrayZay it could just be hunters that were under the orders of the elites and then the hunters you fight in h3 are under the orders of brutes

[@MegaKrayZay]

@@Outcastsage9033 But where were the Hunters that sided with the Elites? The reason why the Grunts were enemies because they remained neutral out of fear, so that makes sense. And Arbiter was yelling at the Drones to rebel

[@firecrakcer001]

When I tell people I think cut content would be a great way to monitize MCC I absolutely mean it. Seeing cut content like this would be incredible, can be optional, and acts as a great way to add additional content that's 100% worth paying for.

[@wiki6799]

I didn’t realize it at the time but when I was coming up and playing Halo 2 as a kid and waiting for Halo 3 to drop I was living in one of the most legendary eras of gaming.

[@josephhernandez2337]

Same man, i was such a fool to let that time pass thinking halo 3 would somehow top it but i dont think any of them quite tops halo 2

[@theveterain1296]

I genuinely felt disturbed at the part where it’s found out the flood spores were inside high charity life support systems, would also explain why the flood spread so fast, because they were inhaling the fungus, genuinely had my jaw dropped to the floor at that one..

[@charizardtrainer626]

The dialogue of Cortana mentioning which Covenant members sided with is cool as hell. Imagine how cool it wouldve been if the Hunters kept their alliance with the Elites through Halo 3. We wouldve been fighting with Hunters along side us AND possibly gotten a new heavy unit for the Covenant as their replacement

[@patrickredington406]

Maybe the Sharquoi?

[@Zerox_Z21]

I think it's more realistic that individuals of each race choose separate alignments, rather than them all acting as a hive mind. So Halo 3 was still disappointing in that regard.

[@FoxySpartan117]

I don't get why more species in different colors weren't dropped off more often alongside marines in ally phantoms.

[@ItsButterBean1020]

@@Zerox_Z21agreed, I think gameplay wise it’s fine but Halo 3 should have done something with this

[@Wuunderboy]

They did keep their alliance with elites. It's just that some never joined the elites at all

[@Gurak_Frostwalker]

The line "oh man, he is so dead" and "and people think I have a big head" are in the OG halo 2.

[@thebrainbuiider]

8:50 correction drones on cars, but not driving cars. Grunts driving cars, you can see their heads peaking out the windshield!

[@jamesmoniz5263]

that is so fricken amazing lol. The idea of driving little sports cards while a drone tells them where to go and shoots

[@jables5895]

10:32 you could already stealth that section, dude.

[@haramsaddam238]

The BR melee and SMG reload animations are amazing. If they were in the final game they would have set more FPS industry trends for the better

[@Green-IV]

i was today years old when I found out about the h2 melee. Why hasnt 343 added this back to halo it looks so damn smooth

[@cursedhawkins1305]

@@Green-IV Expecting 343 to add something WITHOUT some kind of gain behind it...

[@Green-IV]

@@cursedhawkins1305 Yeah money talks but theyre only in that position because of not adding what we wanted in the first place so maybe learning the hard way is what they outta do to fix what they broke to begin with you reap what you sow

[@cursedhawkins1305]

@@Green-IV The problem I see with the whole "not adding what we wanted" when it comes to an entire community is that it can easily alienate that community, I mean look at what happened with Halo 4's launch and the leak prior, people didn't want to believe there was ADS or sprint in the game but the game launches and both of those were in the public release which caused a massive uproar.

[@Green-IV]

@@cursedhawkins1305 Yeah well ADS is sure as f*ck not what we wanted most nor requested, I cant speak for the sweaty nerds playing H4 and H5 all day who wanted the game to play in their favor or at least preference, but as far as I can remember 'what we wanted' consisted of many things aside from the way the sights looked when you zoomed lmao- at least before that became an issue- the fact that it is is again 343s fault. You dont have to add that shit. The reason its all ppl talk about when they do, is because its all they have to talk about. And bcuz thos eppl are newbies they attracted via selling Halo Incorrectly lol If they were actually adding content to the game, some of these problems wouldnt have so much weight- H5 proved that pelicans, where tf are they already??? a file browser that works let alone exists in the game- its been roughly 14 years since we had one lol and thats just a quality of life feature *Also commendations: in reach they gave xp and there o loads for MP, Campaign, and firefight, halo 4 had that feature if I recall correctly I could go on but my goddamn essay has had you read enough so Ill leave it at that

[@benhelms7983]

I still remember beating halo 2 and one of the high council elites survived and was just chillin in middle of the cut scene

[@romywilliam8591]

The grunts on the metropolis bridge are driving the cars with buggers one the top. It was in the files as text.

[@romywilliam8591]

Vengeful Vadam said on one cid the Halo2 Relic was gonna have a shield and drop pods but were cut

[@romywilliam8591]

"in one vid"

[@romywilliam8591]

I remade Relic in Infinite forge and had both of those!

[@romywilliam8591]

Thanks Vengeful Vadam for the inspiration of most of my Relic Remake!

[@River_of_Egypt]

3:20 just gotta throw FEAR out there for melee in a FPS.

[@ChaosWolf3]

MY favorite moments in ANY Halo game was always having a small militia of forces following you and watching them fight. Halo 1, Assault on the Control Room, you could get up to 11 marines to that final moment when you see the hunters chasing them at the bottom of the canyon. Between that and the short bit where you have a marine army at the end of 343 Guilty Spark, I just loved the feel of fighting with a large force and trying to keep them all alive. Loved that stuff in every Halo game. It really makes it feel like a warzone rather than a one man army bashing through everything. Even just moments like in Truth and Reconciliation where Cortana calls in marine support to land inside the covenant hangar if all your initial forces die, feel really impactful towards making the game feel like a fight for survival. Just finding corpses around doesn't do it justice.

[@JorisWeima]

Hehe bro I'd often revert to the last checkpoint if I couldnt keep as many allies alive as I wanted XD. Like an extra challenge. It's also fun to find out that the allies can sometimes actually come with u way further into the level than you expected and still do their job!

[@ChaosWolf3]

@@JorisWeima Yeah, or there are moments where they won't follow, but if you manually push them past a certain point, they'll continue again. I remember doing some eird stuff like getting a marine filled warthog past the security checkpoint in Silent Cartographer where you see that gold elite, and if positioned a certain way, they'd sometimes survive the wipe that kills them all and even hill him in the cutscene. Or just get a warthog there to roadkill him. There was always something fun to do with them though. Really wish tehre was more focus on the marines. Infinite had a great opportunity for that and they squandered it.

[@JorisWeima]

@@ChaosWolf3 Haha thats fun stuff. And yes I fully agree on Infinite!

[@ToastyMozart]

Rolling with a team of Marines armed with Beam Rifles was always a riot.

[@jerkjoker1]

@@JorisWeima haha, same. on classic xbox after having beat the game a dozen times on legendary since it was my only game and i was on EI at the time that was the natural next step. Plus contextually, I always figured, you're the master chief, marines shouldn't die when you're around to back em up

[@gianfrancovolpe6202]

Would like to see the Arbiter mission on the first Halo's moon,or the level after Cairo Station on the covenant ship as originally planned. That is something that is very unlikely to come out.

[@ClarkKentai]

The ability to use Jackal Shields always struck me as an easy shoo-in feature.

[@shcdemolisher]

Yeah! I frankly always wanted it in the games!

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

i know for a fact that my sisters would have dual-wielded them in co-op. they were pretty bad at halo games for a while. those shields would have let them be a tank now and then while i did the shooty parts.

[@Nomad3656]

The needler sentinel actually fits super well, it seems like a technology the covenant might copy from the limited archives of forerunner tech

[@indyHalo]

Never put anything past this community for better or worse: Halo is Life

[@OutcastSpartan]

Bungie's Halo is life, the shit 343 produces doesn't count.

[@alastor-yw7og]

​@@OutcastSpartanbut atleast the community is salvaging halo 4 and somewhat with halo infinite

[@OutcastSpartan]

I disagree, Infinite was awful for me.@@alastor-yw7og

[@Monster-wi4jv]

​@@OutcastSpartanHalo 4 > Halo 3, H3 was garbage, stop crying about Bungie.

[@howmanybabiesdidNestleKill]

Halo is Dead.

[@justinhall6671]

The dialog of cortana and Chips in the under water section on regret was in the final release, I use to listen to this dialog all the time on this mission growing up. It was never cut.

[@jace_519]

he lidally says that

[@HiddenXperia]

The greatest game of all time just got even greater...

[@chillgiver]

yes sirrrrrr

[@protozoanpro]

Sorta controversial but Halo 3 >

[@Beregond1861]

"No, I think we're just getting started."

[@lostbankai6521]

​@protozoanpro somehow not controversial at all, but halo reach >

[@KazooieX1]

@@protozoanpro halo 3 was good but NOWHERE near as good as halo 2

[@KrankuSama]

This isn't the 'original' Halo 2 campaign, Halo 2 was radically different in development and there are entire levels, mechanics and story beats which are not very well known and can't be restored. None of this takes away from the great work Vadam did in restoring details from the cutting room floor, however this is not the 'original' Halo 2 campaign, it is a reinterpretation of the Halo 2 retail campaign.

[@tomahawkm4687]

The mod community is going to keep the franchise alive. They will practically mod Halo's life support

[@ThommyofThenn]

Correct and we are already doing it my friend! Keep it up and BELIEVE!

[@beeman4266]

​@@ThommyofThennAll I've ever wanted was the books recreated as campagins by modders. You think that's possible? Some of the best moments happened in the books.

[@iforgotmyname1885]

the next halo game will be a mod.

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@iforgotmyname1885 exactly

[@RocketCouch]

​@@beeman4266Don't know if this is any help, but I was at an arcade a while back and they had a Halo game that followed the novel's story pretty well. Game play was a little wonky, but still, it worked out ok I think.

[@jamesmoniz5263]

one small point. I don't think allied brutes were cut cause of dev time. I think it was cut because it didn't fit the theme and impression they wanted to give you of the brutes. The brutes during no section of the game are your friend. Even before the schism the brutes are antagonists to the arbiter. They are the ones who band him, and are never portrayed as friendly in any way to him or any of the elites at any point. I think same *kinda* goes for jackals, but we just got 1 level with them as allies for shock value and to make us feel like part of the covenant. I think having Tartarus (the most antagonistic person in the entire covenant from the arbiters pov) be the closest thing to an ally we ever see from the brutes is on purpose.

[@southpaw117]

Exactly. It's the same reason we didn't fight any humans as the Arbiter as well. He's still part of the Covenant, fighting to annihilate the human race and to help activate the rings. We play as him under dramatic irony until the end of the game where he finally accepts the truth about the rings and the Covenant. It would be against our motivations and goals in saving the galaxy to kill the race we're primarily trying to protect, even if we are doing it from the opposing side.

[@theputnamto3468]

*sgt johnson* "where are you going arbiter?" *arbiter* "giving the coventant back their bomb"

[@Maddog1911]

The fact that drones driving cars makes sense because they are experienced with machines

[@xyreniaofcthrayn1195]

I weep for the e3 Mombasa streets we never got.

[@excaliburr7789]

I would literally pay to play the E3 '03 demo. And that earth aesthetic was so much friggin' cooler, and actually felt futuristic.

[@briansvedin1788]

Yo for real, that demo trailer lives rent-free in my brain

[@chaneterzaro5388]

If I had a nickle for every groundbreaking early 2000's fps sequel that had the entire game scraped and development restarted from the begining, I'd have two nickels.

[@RecoveringLoLAddict]

almost 20 years of halo 2 damn I feel old

[@vincentsgaming]

23 years ago now since halo 1 in 2001

[@aaronsmith4940]

We are old that's why

[@feralprocessor9853]

Right off the bat, the player wielding Jackel Shield 🛡

[@Baba_Lysaga]

This video actually opened my eyes to how much we missed out on cut masterpieces

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

Speaking of which, you should check out the original Star Wars Episode 9 Script.

[@gitupmechavvy2569]

@@jakespacepiratee3740can I get a quick rundown?

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@gitupmechavvy2569 > As Expected, Palpatine doesn’t return. > First Order has captured Coruscant, Kylo Ren finds a secret Hologram map hidden by Palpatine, which explodes, forcing him to wear a mask for life support like Darth Vader > Rey has a duel-sided Lightsaber. Think Darth Maul but blue. > Rey and her gang has a big fight with the Knights of Ren, she uses the force to read their minds and finds out they killed her parents. She gets so mad she kills them with Force Lightning. Horrified of the Dark Side within her, she sets out on her own to find Kylo Ren. > Kylo Ren uses the coordinates he got to find a planet that has Darth Plagueis the Wise’s Master, some creepy spider thing. It teaches him how to Force-Drain Life Energy out of things. Kylo then kills him with this power. > Finn used his Stormtrooper origins to inspire the other Stormtroopers to rise up and help form a new resistance on Coruscant. > Luke’s Force Ghost talks to Kylo Ren, Kylo tries to swing him away with his Lightsaber and Luke uses his hand AS A FORCE GHOST to catch it. > Kylo Ren and Rey have a big fight. Rey gets blinded and nearly dies. She talks to Luke and tells him they made a mistake in ignoring the Dark Side, as their fear of it only made it stronger. > Rey speaks to Kylo through the force and convinces him to stop. He uses his Force Drain powers to heal Rey (eyes back) and reveals her full name is “Rey Solana” Kylo dies himself. > First Order defeated, Rey Solana builds a new Jedi Order and teaches them to master both sides of the Force to maintain balance.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@gitupmechavvy2569 sorry that may have been longer than expected. I just think we were robbed.

[@gitupmechavvy2569]

@@jakespacepiratee3740 no that’s fine, anymore to add? Holy fuck.. I only asked because it was 2am and felt the impending doom coming if I took a minute to look it up followed by the soul crushing agony of what could of been but I merely postponed it… Star Wars is kill

[@AresN7]

I like a lot of what's been done here. Some of the cut dialogue especially is pretty nice, like Cortana's messages about what's going on in High Charity during the infection. However, and hopefully not to come across as rude, I don't think the line Cortana mentions about In Amber Clad being flood controlled worked well. The delivery seemed off, or maybe the audio mixing, and it definitely feels weird that she seems to know immediately that it's flood infested. How does she know? And the cool part of Amber appearing was the mystery of wondering why it's here. A better compromise would have been having her crack the joke about the pilot being accurate with the jump (which would have some later horrific implications when you realize it's flood controlled). But if I had to choose between the two lines, I think the lines they went with on release were better.

[@ginhalo2765]

Glad to see mod makers making the dreams for halo 2 bungie had a reality.

[@nelsonr1467]

How do you play this on Steams MCC?

[@B0ssb3ar]

“Permission to leave the Scarab?” “For what purpose Arbiter?” “To give the brutes back their bomb.”

[@TheLastArbiter]

I’ve always wanted a “directors cut” version of Halo 2 with the extra missions, original ending from the storyboard, and assets. This is the closest we will get. Pretty cool we can do this now. I think it’s amazing that the Halo 2 we got is one of the best games ever and it’s just a shell of that it was meant to be. I love the Halo 2 from our timeline tho

[@TwizTeDxNinjAx]

8:45 wait that's not the drone driving it, a grunt is in the drivers seat of those cars and the drones are the turrets!! :O

[@RicardoPerez-rz8pu]

Not gonna lie about that but it's so cool and funny 😀😅

[@damonh7572]

Still want to play that e3 demo of H2😢

[@FaultyParadox]

THIS is what a remaster should be. Adding cut content, updating graphics, making what wasn't possible then, possible now. Bringing the original dream back to fruition. The soulless remasters have nothing on this besides owning the IP, and just by right of passion, knowing, and bringing the dream to life, you have completely and utterly humbled the whole industry of gaming at this point. Bungie was the original dreamer, 343 was the nightmare, TheVengefulVadam is another addition to the dream!

[@nicholasapodaca9886]

All this stuff probably got cut for performance. There is no way an OG xbox could render 3 scarabs at once.

[@MartinGonzalez-vv6vv]

Me: *watching the Xbox Developer Recap video* KZbin: New HiddenXperia Video Me: * immediately changes channel*

[@HiddenXperia]

Timed it just right 😎

[@grinchiestgrinch7289]

Read the title and clicked so fast 😂😂

[@MartinGonzalez-vv6vv]

Hit that Bell and Notifications hooked it up, baby. 😎

[@zonnodon163]

Based

[@EvilNeonETC]

Chaos breeds innovation. 343 lacks this chaos because they keep firing every contractor who's eventually figured it out. 😂

[@angryretailbanker5103]

To be honest, I think the coolest thing would have been if the Forerunner Tank level had somehow been restored. I never thought it made sense how Chief just jumped into the water and got plucked out there, meaning anyone could have been grabbed at any time. And apparently, Gravemind had just been holding Chief in his tentacle for like a full day. Having Chief run around the lower levels of that structure that got glassed and use an ancient Forerunner weapon to mow through Sentinels would have actually made a LOT more sense.

[@SeriousRyno]

I don't think there was enough level even created for it to be restored. I think they had storyboards and maybe some geometry but other than that Forerunner Tank was still just an idea.

[@user-ns4zm8qe9p]

It was all just drafted not actually coded/greyboxed

[@Xeno-The-Wanderer]

all that was restored was what was in the game files, whole levels would need basically an SPV3 type deal where they create whole new geometry and then like custom campaigns make new scripts encounters and flags with whoever they can find to voice them, would be neat but also tough and to some jarring

[@kainey]

10:30 you already can do that in Halo 2 without the mod

[@bertio100ify]

The burst carbine is probably my favorite part of all of this, by far my most favorite gun in Halo besides the CE shotgun!!

[@mushroomfish300]

A cool detail is that the opening cutscene to Outskirts is slightly modified. There are now odsts on the pelican, and in the cutscene they actually have a custom animation on them putting their helmet on. It’s a small detail, but a cool one.

[@chrismescudi6594]

I miss being a kid and playing halo 2 for the first time and my goodness the wait for it to be released felt like an eternity

[@PineappleZach666]

Drones driving cars? Nope those be grunts in those cars.

[@griffingower1883]

Except, the legs of Grunts are too short to actually reach the Breaks and Throttle.

[@takenking2311]

It is terribly unfortunate that this is not on the Xbox version of the game, I would love to play this. 😢

[@kriticalitygaming1048]

Good news is that you only need Halo 2 Anniversary to run it, not all of MCC. Just bought it recently for 10 bucks, not too bad for the opportunity to play Halo 2 on my laptop with mods while I travel.

[@nelsonr1467]

​@@kriticalitygaming1048how do you play this? On Steams version of MCC?

[@kriticalitygaming1048]

@@nelsonr1467 yes, you need Halo 2 Anniversary on steam

[@sakkra93]

Agreed, If this was on Xbox I'd play the hell out of it, even if 343 released it as the original Halo 2 campaign or something.

[@nojuanatall3281]

PC master race ftw.

[@Mis73rRand0m]

The smg is likely to be open bolt and have an empty mag catch for the bolt/sear, therefore not needing to be cycled when a new magazine is inserted - at most it would need a small bump to reset the magazine safety/stop, but even that could be engineered to deactivate with a hard mag insertion.

[@kevlar870kevinkisik9]

Looks like the drones rode on top of the cars while grunts drove

[@cameronhenderson1905]

This mod is really cool but its missing one thing, forerunner tank because awesomeness would ensue

[@MegaKrayZay]

I was gonna say, I remember hearing Chips Dubbo’s response back in the original Halo 2 game. But I had to wait for a while for Regret to talk, and made sure the marines were alive for that

[@alanger5288]

Sometimes content is cut cause it's simply not good. Drones driving cars is an example of this I'd think

[@Lanmind90]

Finished playing the mod earlier this week with a friend who I met online on Halo 2 twenty years ago. It was awesome. Loved the warthog run

[@BreadPitt7]

3:40 multiple reload animations depending if you empty the mag or not has always been in the game though.

[@dr._breens_beard]

"Offensively little about" i swear thats the understatement of the century. Hoping to hell and back 1000x that 343 comes to their senses and gives us a horror-survival game set in the streets of high charity as the flood spreads and in the words of hidden himself, "the lights go out."

[@R462venom]

I would love a Halo 3 ODST style game set in High Charity starting with the great schism and ending with the flood taking control of the station. Maybe as an elite force trying to fight off the other factions, then trying to stop the flood, then getting decimated and having to find a ship to flee the station which is now a lost cause.

[@dr._breens_beard]

@@R462venom absolutely! The potential is lightyears deep!

[@Born...]

Love this mod, and yes a lot of content has been restored. But we are nowhere near done yet. We still have the entire 3rd act to recreate. Can't wait for this but this is going to be an insane amount of work.

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

That weird BR/DMR hybrid honestly doesn't even scratch the DMR itch. Doesn't have that punch feeling.

[@PM4K]

22:24 always loved that you can be invisible but not the energy sword, and the enemies just do not see a floating sword lmao

[@doootuz]

Until we get the dig site E3 mission it has not been restored…. However Vadam’s mod is incredibly awesome

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

That’s what I thought this was based off the notification….

[@morphius747]

did he do the update so we can hold shields? I think I tried a while ago but to no avail

[@spongeborgtheford4971]

And forerunner tank and covenant ship

[@cringecouple6229]

I wonder if it can be restored

[@TheEvilLordExdeath]

Was that actually playable and not a demo reel?

[@Ranger_Brutus]

The Needler Sentinel actually wasn't cut, I countered it a couple of times on the original Xbox and at least three times on MCC, but it was a rare thing and it only dropped a regular needler

[@jamesabel9745]

I legit thought I was going insane. I could have sworn that I remembered that from when I played Halo 2 on the og Xbox, but I had recently replayed it on MCC and hadn't seen them in it

[@horrorpleb249]

YES, THE ICONIC ONE IS REVIEWING AN ICONIC MOD. TRULY AN ICONIC VIDEO!!!

[@solsticenight1600]

The flood juggernaut should have been added because same concept as the MAW you're basically fighting the flood and the sentinels. But for anyone who played that little battle in that room just never felt right. I had expected something more than a small swarm since that room was so open lol

[@colincampbell3837]

Maybe I'm just weird, but a cutscene with the Arbiter killing Tartarus like he did to Truth in Halo 3 seems kind of cool.

[@Ratich]

8:53 it's actually a grunt driving a car with a drone on top

[@inductivegrunt94]

This is so beautiful! Halo 2 was already one of the best Halo games, and Vadam made it so much better. Absolutely beautiful! So much stuff cut now returned, it's just so amazing.

[@oakularoregon6623]

I assume the SAW and the Promethean Light-rifle from Halo 4 was the predecessor of the carriable LMG and the 3 round burst Covenant Carbine from Halo 2. Very neat, I love it!

[@supasteve5882]

There are actually grunts driving the cars! The drones are just on the roof shooting😂

[@acey6991]

That VTOL looking falcon looks sick!!!

[@MrEsphoenix]

It always surprised me they didn't add some of the cut features and missions when they remastered the game. I think halo 2 was one of the OG broken promise games, but it got away with it because it was still an amazing game and didn't need fixing post release.

[@Arrath777]

I'm not sure it really got away with it. At least in my group lol. 8 of us went to the midnight release and all played through the campaign in co-op duos. Come morning when we're all close to wrapping up the campaign, there were successive bursts of displeasure when we realized we hit the ending. There had to be more! We thought, anyway. We passed tf out and dug into multi-player when we woke up so the wound was lessened, but still.

[@gundamwarrior]

Man, 343 should just retroactively go back and readd this stuff innately to the game and do a pass for it on the HD side of it. This looks far better of an experience to not be official in the end.

[@kingofhearts3185]

Ever since I saw c3 sabertooth's videos on Halo 2 I couldn't help but wonder what game we would have gotten if it was delayed a year and came out as a launch title for the 360.

[@shcdemolisher]

God knows how the world would be if it was released for the 360.

[@riordan3]

Those gas creatures are cut engineers, which made their way into odst and reach

[@scploc3947]

The falcon looks more like something out of aliens to be honest, it's awesome

[@sebastianvalles9619]

The elite at 21:58 just needed to be in the game it’s always tripped me out how we hear one and don’t know who’s talking I always assumed it was the 2nd dead body but after he finished talking the brute patrolling killed him. This mod is just amazing

[@SauceyLips]

I didn’t know what Xbox live was as a kid. The amount of times I played through halo 2, countless. I imagine playing through this mod again almost makes the game feel “new” again. One day I will have a PC and experience this beauty

[@ImperialGuardsman2]

9:52 .... so basically the sound file for the chaingun mounted on warthogs.

[@roberttong8877]

The power of fan work is really something. Noticed it since CE time.

[@trossity9930]

It's actually insane how much cooler this is than Vanilla H2.

[@iangilbertson3622]

I have said and always will say, the modders of our Halo community is why this game continues to thrive, not 343 industries....Love to all of the modders out there for halo that have made it fantastic for us to play bringing our imagination or in this case cut content to life ❤

[@crimsoncrusher3223]

I mean I agree but you also need to give 343 some credit while yes it’s not the same they have added some pretty nice things to the halo franchise and they were also the ones to give the info and any surviving source code of most cut content to our modders

[@Wolficefang]

I disagree. I wouldn't be playing Halo for the first time ever this month if it weren't for Master Chief Collection on Steam... made by 343 industries. But we'll see how I feel about them once I reach Halo 4! 😂

[@iangilbertson3622]

@@Wolficefang 🤣🤣

[@watchncarry9593]

Thanks so much for putting this all together and covering all the differences between this and the cut version

[@HeWhoComments]

On the topic of fluid melee animations: in Crysis 3, if you keep hitting the melee button, Prophet will begin just punching with his fists after hitting a few times with the weapon in hand. It’s not quite the same as the BR animation in this video, but I thought it would be worth mentioning

[@electrobob992]

The beauty of Halo coming to PC at it's finest.

[@TheNightWolfeX]

I've actually played this mod to Delta Halo, (working on a Halo series for my channel) And I have to say this mod is phenominal! The semi-auto, 1 shot BR did feel wierd at first, but once you get used to it, it can make quick work of most enemies. Overall Vadam outdid himself with this.

[@slippytrippy8122]

3:20 Area 51 on the OG xbox had chained/ animated melee attacks. It looked so good. I remember when the halo 2 e3 ttailer showed it off, too

[@sircamelot3501]

I remember that mission with the militia covenant against the flood and managed to actually save everyone except one grunt but unfortunately after that gondola part it seems the AI just break and refuse to do anything (I have no idea if it was a bug or intended for I was unable to replicate the result)

Yeah I did that too, no matter what the AI just doesnt want to work after that

[@johnathonyoung4799]

I’ve had it happen a few times before

[@austinfuller8323]

Its crazy that these mods that are just original cuts from the first version somehow feel so much more natural to Halo 2, like they give a definite feel they were meant to be

[@filipelouro1482]

Love this! Makes me feel like an exited child again! The only thing we need now, to ‘complete’ Halo 2, is the cut missions. Imagine, with AI we can mimic the voices without needing the original voice actors, and with the talent of our Halo community we have the skill to make the levels, cutscenes and animations, I think tho