NEW CUT HALO 2 LEVELS REVEALED!

Today, we FINALLY have a COLOSSAL HALO W! Courtesy of the Digsite Team, 3 never before seen cut Halo 2 levels have been revealed AND ARE PLAYABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME! So, join me as we go through their levels, their lore and more!
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0:00 - Halo There
1:06 - Some Backstory
2:16 - Level 1: Defense
6:33 - Level 2: Moonbase
14:40 - Level 3: Assault
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[@HiddenXperia]

Halo Ws are so few and far between nowadays I'll take what I can get. Thankfully, this is a truly colossal W!

[@markricheard1870]

*DONT CARE + 343 KILLED HALO + HALO DEAD AS HELL + RIP HALO + BUNGIE DEAD AS HELL + FUCK 343 + FORERUNNERS ARE HUMANITY + PRAISE MARTY!!!*

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

But I’ve released many halo dinosaur mods on MCC and giving halo fans something to play, don’t those count as Ws?

[@timelordmagnums357]

Hey Luc are you going to apply for that Halo developer job. INstallation00 can't do it. I can think of no one better to give us something f'n awesome than you. Appreciate all your hard work. :)

[@bebospartan1173]

The alerts kinda sound like splinter cell chaos theory alert changes. You ever play splinter cell Xperia? I think you’d like them.

[@3ofSpades]

I'm fairly sure scraping the bottom of 20 year old barrels for tacked on mod support for games older than the kids who can't spell win for some reason is reaching harder for long term relevance than that fun spinoff game from 2010 you keep playing when the new game is bad and you still can't do anything better with your time like a shower or play any other game.

[@CJsOutOfRum]

Somehow in 2024 we are learning more about Halo 2 than the future of what 343 is doing with the franchise... WILD

[@markricheard1870]

We already know what they are doing. Halo CE remake and Halo 7.

[@CJsOutOfRum]

@markricheard1870 Rumors my dude. I haven't seen a trailer have you?

[@wowiambest]

343 sucks

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

​@markricheard1870 7 or "Infinite 2" or whatever they call a sequel is a safe bet, but absolutely nothing in the way of confirmation. And the CE remake is a rumor, again with nothing from 343.

[@drazam6608]

​@@wowiambestnot as much as you do

[@thatbr1t1shguy]

Fun fact halo 2 was originally going to have sprint but got cut, do what you will with this information.

[@snippysilver8357]

Hieratic

[@Lizard_X999]

I will cry over this, that's what I'll do with this information

[@kolejohnson2836]

Huh

[@twooffourplayz24]

I wish we had sprint that would have been so awesome

[@Lord_TigerMan]

Halo 2 was originally going to have a Battlefield-type of multiplayer, or at least, they we’re experimenting with that idea.

[@ASapphicKitsune]

A couple notes: The digsite team have said the nests in Moonbase/Data Mine were not flood, they were just small creatures that never fully got concepted. Additionally, these levels aren't really 'cut' per-say. They were never planned to be in the campaign and were simple demonstrations of what the improved Blam! engine would allow Bungie to do. A proof of concept if you will. Of course some of the ideas in these levels might have gone on to later levels, Moonbase/Data Mine personally reminded me of Sacred Icon and I wouldn't be surprised if it inspired AlphaMoon, an actual cut Halo 2 level. Good video though, nice that we are getting some new (old) halo content.

[@Justin-cw7rg]

The moon base level was planned for the game. Some of its geometry was reused in Sacred Icon. Jason Jones, Joseph Staten, and Marty talk about it a bit in their devs react to speed run video

[@ASapphicKitsune]

@@Justin-cw7rg Alpha moon is not Moon Base. It was an Arbiter level and would have featured you fighting to the crashed remnants of Alpha Halo's control room on Basis, Threshold's moon to kill the heretic leader (who successfully escaped the gas mine in a seraph)

[@TheEnclave419]

​@@ASapphicKitsuneGod such a buzz kill, must be real fun to hang around....

[@TheBanatter]

​@@TheEnclave419?

[@generalioi8196]

@@TheEnclave419 It's just a correction on misinfo. That's not really buzkill. The nests are not Flood and the geo in this level was obviously not reused for retail.

[@raccoon5824]

Leave it to the mod community to be the only breath of fresh air in the otherwise abysmal 343 decade

[@Brettskei]

Always

[@gub4941]

Coming up on a decade and a half of no good halo games

[@TheEnclave419]

​@@gub4941 Halos dead

[@alaskamark4562]

@@gub4941 Halo Wars 2 was a legitimately good game.

[@gub4941]

@@alaskamark4562 if you discount the nonexistent story and the game mode that only exists to push micro transactions

[@bromodragone8405]

Moonbase could be reworked into a mission that takes place between First Strike and Halo 2's story. Maybe have this be where Chief's Mark V armor gets damaged beyond repair, forcing the UNSC to take him to the Cairo to be fitted with the new Mark VI.

[@JesusIsKing....]

Yeah like when the base is falling apart. genius bruh

[@bromodragone8405]

@@JesusIsKing.... "Good lord look at this. You're lucky we got you back here in time. The plating was about to fail, there's viscosity throughout the gel layer."

[@moisesfavela2189]

​@@bromodragone8405 "Optics, totally fried, and don't even get me started on the power supply."

[@bromodragone8405]

@@moisesfavela2189 "You know how expensive this gear is, son?"

[@moisesfavela2189]

@@bromodragone8405 "Tell that to The Covenant."

[@inductivegrunt94]

The ODSTs rolling in with a Scorpion tank on a moon with low gravity is something I did not know I wanted to see until it happened!

[@cyanspartan1757]

12:12 It's so jarring seeing the Halo CE assault rifle in the hands of the Halo 2 iteration of Master Chief.

[@KC-bi9jw]

3:13 if they ever remake this level, I hope it gives you the option - stay outside and do perimeter defense and clear the LZ, or go in with the marines to retrieve the artifact. Choose your own adventure if you will, both linear and open world

[@StarExplorer1997]

I was honestly impressed with watching the Moonbase footage; hearing original dialogue related to the mission caused me to have my mind blown. 😲

[@falkonsrt6000]

That level defense became the ark mission in halo 3 , most specific the part with the frigate

[@joshjmilli]

Some of the Forerunner interiors presented in these levels remind me of the ‘liminal space’ phenomenon. The empty hallways with particularly placed light sources, it’s actually quite creepy, and cool as a result!

[@Spendingryan]

That first unsc "shield ship" kinda looks like a oni prowler, which have been kinda shown off in two designs before, the blocky almost longsword like one in h4 spartan ops, and the plane-shaped one in halo 5, its a stealth/recon smaller human corvette type ship.

[@4realm8rusirius]

Moonbase feels like a Marathon level.

[@adambelfast1]

You're a marathon level

[@YoBoZ23]

Seeing all the cut content for halo 2 really makes you think how big it could have been. It had so much more potential

[@Wuunderboy]

Bungie was restricted by the og xbox sadly and time constraints

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

I heard one dev compare Halo 2 to being a cathedral. And with all the stuff coming out over the years since, yeah; Halo 2 could’ve been much much bigger and have a much bigger cultural impact If not for the og Xbox’s limit

[@aeronautisch]

@@tyvernoverlord5363 I heard the dev process was described as "assembling a cathedral out of a hurricane"...

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

@@aeronautisch I head that one too, good article as well. The insights we’ve gained into Halo 2’s dev cycle and it almost NOT happening at the last almost year is incredible.

[@gondorianslayer4250]

​@@Wuunderboyit's not Xbox fault

[@CloneCommanderCrater1102]

It's so interesting to me that there are Covenant Spirits being used here, because the Spirit wasn't present in Halo 2 as far as I know, and had its role in the game replaced by the, new at the time, Covenant Phantoms.

[@ShadowPhoenixMaximus]

And here I thought the only puzzle in Halo was which grunt to punch first in a firefight

[@SHMOUSEY86]

This just makes me excited to see the reimagined Delta Halo in the upcoming Ruby's Rebalanced H2. Gonna be really cool to experience that game for the 'first time' for the first time since I was a kid.

[@anthonychase6906]

If it was never gonna be in the game, I'd call it a test level, considering it was never "cut" from the game

[@Wuunderboy]

Exactly

[@TheIrishTexan]

If they made a stealth game, I'd want it to be based around one of three things. You play as the ODST again, you get to be part of the headhunters or the original Spartan 3s before they had shields and stuff and were sent on suicide missions, or you're a Sangheili Spec Ops unit during the Human Covenant War, tasked to hunt down human VIPs, sabotage defenses for an impending invasion or clear out forerunner facilities the humans have set up labs in. Or anything along those lines.

[@themanfromjupiter910]

man as a kid i lived for this kind of missing information in halo. i love videos like this where you cover all of the cut content and easter eggs in halo

[@HemisphereCinema]

So satisfyitng seeing halo 2 elite models again. Stealth system sounds like Dishonored.

[@TexasDinoHunter]

10:20 I feel you. I remember playing those levels in reach and ce and being “oh cool a stealth mission” then being equipped with a weapon that sounds like God’s wrath and being “oh so not a stealth mission” 😢

[@jordonturner9559]

Can you do a halo weapons tier list?

[@arbiter4]

please do a video on the halo 2 restored lighting !!

[@adamsmasher9738]

We are more excited for news about a game that’s almost 20 years old than infinite

[@MintBlitz]

2:53🗿

[@Meekaltheonly]

I just got done watching the halo 3 cut levels video, and then this comes out a couple hours later

[@FelipeNiclvs.]

wish all of these were remade and fleshed out :C

[@ToaDrakua]

The way the article described the Proto-creatures instantly reminded me of CE's cut keelbugs.

[@orangeporridge1553]

What they should do to incorporate these cut levels into the remakes is remake the campaigns as we know them, and once you’ve completed them, unlock these side missions where you play as marines and or ODST’s (like you should for the moonbase remake) as events playing out during chief’s story peripherally

[@Criticmasterz]

Man we need all the cut content of halo 2 in a remake

[@sevbaileyify]

These are the kinds of levels I always felt were missing from Halo 2 ❤️

[@S1337theoddoneout-ip9xc]

9:57 It does feel like Halo meets Portal and they have a baby, and the baby is beautiful.

[@chipsdubbo5.56]

I love cut Halo 2 content thanks bro!!!

[@knickknackpattywack]

I'm not satisfied until I get my FORERUNNER TANK

[@ThatOV1]

This is cool, but i hear that "Blow Me Away" in the background, kinda funny because i was just listening to that. Good job

[@Stratonetic]

You can see a lot of remaining geometry in Halo 2 from these level designs and its very apparent that Bungie really wanted to keep a lot of their original ideas, I'd like to point out how that moon level seems like just a very early version of quarantine zone, both in the wasteland's design and also the corridors, I imagined seeing a sentinel enforcer encounter, as it's mowing down flood with it's darts you're staring through the window above studying it and then you would eventually make it to that chamber to fight it.

[@tylergreen1639]

Seeing you look at that ODST with the assault rifle and admiring for a moment is too real

[@arbiter4]

The beginning of the Assault level reminds me of the RE4 remake chapter 13 where you (somewhat) stealthily invade the island

[@ThommyofThenn]

Amazing!!! Those first 2 images have a distinctly Halo CE vibe! Really interesting how they strayed from that look to the more monolithic more refined look. I can understand the streamlining to make it run at anywhere near an acceptable level. But it's very gratifying to see something concrete from an era that is largely mythical. This makes me believe we will get a forerunner ship map one day 😊

[@ddayki]

Surprised I haven't seen anything in the comments about his mention of the moon being haunted at 8:27. That one got me.

[@MathiasLopez-lw5yo]

Yes! Cut content from halo 2!!

[@stewart9293]

Lol it took me way too long to get the "Haunted" ghost joke... then I laughed probably harder than I should've

[@UltraSpartanProductions]

Awesome!

[@GreatestKidsMC-zf1ti]

This is sick.I'd love to play this!

[@Ben_of_Langley]

You know I'm not one for stealth levels but to be honest the way that sounded in like how the level would play out it just sounds sick like I'm all for that because it sounds really fun

[@Skoopa92]

Bungie had so much ambition with the old games. It'd be so cool to see more insane sandbox things like this in future games. Like go crazy make a level where you can call in and command troops like a hybrid of Halo wars and FPS Halo

[@TortugaAW]

The fact that 343I has an Digsite team is... amazing.

[@michaelspetalieri8132]

Yooooooo!!!! Can't wait to play these

[@andresbravo2003]

Yeah, Big W.

[@legitimatetexan7626]

Thank you for posting this video good sir

[@TheChadPad]

At least you got your stealth missions with ODST! I think more stealth missions would be awesome in Halo. I’d like to see a survival Flood horror game, using stealth to sneak past

[@TheSpecktre]

Moonbase was definitely my favorite. But I completely managed to miss the proto creatures, so that was a little mind blowing to me. I messed around in the levels, but managed to miss most of what you're talking about, so I'm glad I watched this.

[@NobleSlip]

love that we are still learning new things from this nearly 20 year old game!

[@nightlydata2181]

All of these sound like they'd be PERFECT for the infinite sequal that builds more on Zeta halo & wutnot.

[@Revamped117]

Coming in clutch for lunch

[@BuTtClOuD]

This part 17:00 is very reminiscent to Sierra 117, the first mission in Halo 3. Could be a stretch but it seems like they reused some of the art direction from this cut mission for designing that mission. Maybe.

[@e3k701]

13:14 This reminds me of the level under Sword Base in Reach.

[@Hadgerz]

Nobody: That forerunner building at 0:29 : 🗿

[@4dxl]

I already said this on GeneralHeed's video but I really like that mesa biome. I wish we would have seen more of this environment in the final release

[@bromodragone8405]

8:31 *sarcastic laugh*

[@HighCharityYT]

that elite came from the moon!

[@rb_memorablerexog8589]

they should really add these "Lost levels" to mcc like maybe finish the levels based on the ideas and release them as extra levels that most likely wont be cannon but would be fuckin awesome to play and see

[@friendliesttaco1258]

Perhaps moonbase can be worked on using the existing mp map of waterworks as the underground described in the video being a cavern reminded me alot of waterworks. And the middle portion of the map being kinda like a forerunner construction site with raw materials sounds like the gas mine mission with all those treadmills moving those exploding canisters.

[@TheSharkKing45]

Would i be wrong to say.. with the amazing work the Digsite team is doing, could we , in theory, have "definitive versions" of these older Halo games at some point in time?

[@crabbuckets7506]

I feel your pain punished snake.

[@I-Dcompany]

The year is 2004. You're hyped up about the midnight Halo 2 release and it came out bombing gunz a blazing. We can all say it ... Blew us away...

[@santiagovargas6777]

An amogus reference? Huge 2020 flashback

[@arizona-hunter6684]

It would’ve been sick to have the single shot E3 Battle Rifle with a suppressor available. Vadam if you’re watching this add a silencer to the BR.

[@hairy-dairyman]

Unreleased levels would be an epic way to drive engagement with the mcc

[@luismolina2425]

The moon level would be great right before “Delta Halo”. Go to the moon, get some artifact or activate something 🤷🏻‍♂️ and the go down the halo and finish whatever you started on the moon. Matter a fact get to “Delta Halo” like the 3rd lost mission

[@Wuunderboy]

Its not a cut level. It was just a test level it was never going to be added

[@lmclelland2172]

Isn’t that room used in the heretic level in halo two I think that’s what it’s called where you have to chase down the heretic guy and he has a ship 12:09

[@3ofSpades]

I thought they were done with mcc? Surely by now, they would've been releasing something new as opposed to digging up a bunch of corpses. A halo 5 pc port or maybe the dig site team can start digging up and remaking something that actually needs it like halo 4. That whole game felt like a rough draft that needed another year in the oven.

[@FastbeeNotabee]

My favorite game ever gets cut content? What timeline am i living😱

[@Whyyyyyyyyyyyy552]

All games have cut content. Its not unusual.

[@aBadWizard]

I don't understand this comment. Halo 2 has always had cut content... Wtf are you smoking?

[@FastbeeNotabee]

@@Whyyyyyyyyyyyy552 i know that but halo 2 of all games is the most fun and interesting imo (i overreact no mater what halo game tho😅)

[@lyrimetacurl0]

​@@FastbeeNotabee jackal snipers 😂

[@ray8413]

The real questions are . when are we getting Alpha moon,E3 demo and depending on how much it was prototyped. The cut halo 3 campaign maps in the Halo2 engine like the cut flartbiter mission

[@izzy9722]

Assault sounds like a dope ass level

[@flipyapd2321]

Halo 2 is my childhood and favorite Halo game

[@Caboose_1337]

4 minutes ago is absolutely diabolical

[@madcat789]

Still waiting for the Covenant Ship level, where you steal a Wraith and go nuts.

[@135x]

This is nuts

[@TheRealQuenny]

ngl i would love to see some more metal gear stuff from you

[@IanBPPK]

I wonder that the artifact was inspired by or related to the ones in Halo: First Strike

[@Kameron-Nin64]

Halo2 was always one of my favorites I’m so glad it’s still getting the attention and respect it deserves😎

[@simarpreetsingh1830]

Will you do a full 'what if' story on Bungie's original idea for Halo CE where Cortana reaches her rampancy and becomes the main antagonist of the story, I always wonder how the trilogy would turn out to be

[@Mote.]

I'm embarrassed it took me so long to decide to play Halo 2 campaign again. I haven't played it since it came out. Its so damn fun, as are all the Bungie Halos.

[@SupaFly-gx1zo]

It's so weird thinking how many times Halo tried to implement wildlife just to eventually just scrap it all. We got Rhoas and the big weird things in Reach and that's it. But there's Engineer's in CE, blind dogs in 2, whatever they planned for Infinite, all cut and given up on. We really got such a different version of Halo than what Bungie initially tried to make.

[@menkster5813]

I think Moonbase would best fit in after the arbiter missions and before you descend to Delta Halo. Like you make the jump with Regret's ship and head to moonbase, then down to Delta Halo. Otherwise it couldve been after the cut covenant ship mission.

[@mateozulu1877]

Hmm... Interesting!

[@deepfriedsausag3442]

i love you hiddenxperia

[@Slappy985]

If the Covenant want to erase this particular part of my history, that's FINE BY ME.

[@additivewolf]

Maybe for the 20th anniversary the dig site could release a certain e3 03 level…👀

[@xLordxHades]

Is it just me or does the shield ship in defense have the same profile as the Icebreaker sniper from Destiny 1? Funny

[@onieyoh9478]

I'd love a SPv3 style mod for Halo 2.

[@derekteter982]

Mann I always wanted a Halo moon level and I thought H2 was perfect for it. I could also totally see an H3 standoff style moon variant. Wish they messed around more with gravity stuff especially for fiesta.

[@V1PEGASUS]

Fun fact Halo 2 was supposed to bring your parents back together but got cut. Do with that what you will.

[@ethanmichael712]

Glad all of this was cut. Master Chief fucks, he doesn't sneak.

[@shaunmursalim7315]

If only 343 would finish the campaign with all of these cut gameplay and mechanics in MCC guess we’re just gonna have to see what the new company is going to do with the cry engine 3

[@luckeyjake14]

Those creatures seem more like moon Barnacles.