The ORIGINAL Halo 2 Campaign Bungie WANTED To Make...

Halo 2 had one of the most gruelling development cycles in the history of video games, and as such, Bungie had to cut so much content from it. So, today, we're diving into ALL the content they had to cut from the Campaign - this is The Sad & Secret History of Halo's Best Campaign...

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Cut Level: Covenant Ship
3:37 - Cut Level: Alpha Moon
6:17 - Cut Level: Infinite Succor
8:03 - Cut Level: Forerunner Tank
12:27 - Cut Level: Earth Ark
19:43 - Early Versions of Levels
21:00 - Cut Enemies
26:28 - Cut Weapons
30:58 - Cut Vehicles

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[HiddenXperia]

Today, we take a look at the Halo 2 Campaign we ALMOST got...

[SupersaiyanMagikarp_]

Just imagine if they spent like a couple more years on halo 2

[andydufresnefromshawshank]

So I just heard that the end of Halo 2 was just the end of the human-covenant war. While Halo 3 was a full scale galactic war against the flood

[NotPipi]

Someday I'll animate that original ending

[conorw]

Another thing about the original plan for alpha moon was that the heretics were going to be hunters. Joe Staten talks about this in the Halo 2 Developer commentary. I assume it was cut as fighting only hunters for a whole mission won't be too fun but it's a cool idea!

[noblegamer]

The human-as-forerunner storyline is the entire reason Halo makes sense in the first place. It speaks to the deep sense that humans are uniquely divine (halo, holy, etc) compared to any other species. Bungie created a masterpiece of storytelling for the modern era.

[StrikeAxl]

It's crazy that there are people that still argue that the forerunners and humans being the same species was not the original intent.

[onieyoh]

Humans being the Forerunners always made more sense from everything said originally in the trilogy before it was retconned leaving a bunch of out of place dialogue in the original trilogy.

[mpt]

The Heretic leader didn't think the Arbiter was too far gone. As he said himself before the Monitor interjected, dying at the Arbiter's hands was better than living in disgrace--if he managed to get that far in a single Seraph.

[braven_iss]

THANK YOU for acknowleding that humans were forerunners in bungie's canon. been seeing so many people trying to deny it was a retcon and it drives me crazy.

[painfulcrowd]

this video is proof why i believe 343's halo is seprate from bungie's
mainly 16:26 because i just finished playing halo reach 1 2 3 4 and 5, all in order, and suddenly none of the forerunner stuff made any sense by halo 4

[isisbarfuss]

It still baffles me how back then, games that had a year-long time crunch still led to amazing results, like with Halo 2 and Kotor 2. But nowadays, games that are given way more time end up a huge failure, like with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which had over 7 years of development.

[GamePath]

I remember being disappointed when I noticed the graphics didn't live up to Halo 2's first trailer

[TheVengefulVadam]

Happy to see Uncut continue to get more recognition! Thank you, brother ❤

[The-Black-Death]

Halo 2 will always stand as one of the GREATEST gaming success stories of all time, and yet also serves to show the dangers of deadlines and crunchtime in game development.

[Mostima]

Took you a few years to find that out... but hey I am still impressed that 343 took Frank O'Connor's fantasy for gold and based all their games on 3 of the terminals Franky wrote himself in Halo 3 while ignoring everything that is not made by Franky...

[LoneHerald]

Halo 2 has been and will always be the best halo game to me

Also for the cut content of satchel charges, and the gate/doors the hunters bust through, you were right xperia, cause Johnson says over comms "someone get a satchel on the gate". So clearly you were supposed to interact with the gate, or a marine does

[RiordanOwens]

I would love to see that cutscene of Chief falling to the planet and walking out of the smoke in an upcoming halo game, would be so bad ass

[jcpuga]

The fact that they wrote a poem to the part they cut from the game says a lot about their passion at that time.

[liamwaddleton]

the 18:57 image of HiddenX pointing is my new favorite image to ever come out of one of these videos
great video as always, just wanted to drop this timecode in case folks needed a new reaction image

also the sporadic returns of the "turok mentioned" meme will always make me chuckle. good shit