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The coolest part Halo 2 he didn’t get it Halo 2. If you’re a fan of the series at all, you know exactly what I’m talking about: Show “Earthcity”which was unveiled at Microsoft’s 2003 E3 presentation. This level has not reached the full version Halo 2However, after nearly two decades, a playable construction is in the works, 343 Industries announced today In a blog post.
Just to give you an idea of how awesome this is, here’s my real-time reaction to the news, transcribed directly my boxSlack channel:
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In the cold light of today’s fidelity arms race, you might not get this impression looking at the clip’s lo-fi visuals, but it’s hard to overstate just how spine-tingling Halo 2’s E3 2003 demo was. Two years prior, Halo: Combat Evolved—and this almost goes without saying—redefined the first-person shooter. But that game was set entirely off-planet, on a ringworld called Halo. The “Earthcity” demo showed a look at a broader Halo canon—the primordial ooze for a sci-fi universe that’s spanned decades of games, spinoffs, comics, novels, a canceled film, and a Recently renewed TV series.
The general scenario of “Earthcity” – a human city under attack that you must defend – is repeated in one form or another in the second and third levels. Halo 2. Some of the gameplay features shown in the demo, such as the ability to use two weapons at the same time, are also included in the full game. But the plot details differ. Towards the end of the show, the Master Chief sits on a ghost, a land vehicle typical of the reign, HiThe primary enemy force. Tearing it down the highway at full speed. It crashes, and then the demo switches from real-time gameplay (remarkably impressive for the time) to a cinematic pre-show. Several Covenant Drop Beads will fall from the field, and elites wielding energy swords will appear and surround the boss. Pulls a plasma bomb.
“Betcha can’t stick to it,” says Cortana, the AI leader’s companion.
He says: “You turn it on”.
in The battle aura evolvedIt can be said that the elite with the energy sword was the strongest enemy unit. Facing one or two is usually quite difficult. But Seven? in close the quarter? The demo couldn’t have ended on a cliffhanger. you as a player He knew How much danger the boss is in – and you need to know what happened and how You areHe will fight his way out of it.
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Though there’s no release date, 343 Industries is planning on making the stage playable in PC versions of “modern retail Halo 2.” (Halo 2 was released as a remastered version in 2014, which is also included as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection.) The chance of it being playable on console is totally up in the air, in part due to the high technical hurdles for this endeavor.
“We originally didn’t have a lot of assets lying around for the map from previous analysis of leaked builds and the like,” General_101, a modder working with 343 on this project, wrote. “Just the source JMS files for the BSP and a few scenery objects. However, once the source map files turned up it was only a matter of time before we had all the data we needed.”
Beyond Halo 2’s E3 2003 demo, 343 is working with modders to add a ton of cut content to Halo: Master Chief Collection. For longtime Halo fans, there’s a ton of other fascinating stuff in the pipe, including the original elite models and a number of other renderings that never made the final cut. You can read everything here.
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