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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

Moonbase feels like a Marathon level.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

2:53🗿

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

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

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” 😢

wish all of these were remade and fleshed out :C

Can you do a halo weapons tier list?

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

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

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

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

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

I love cut Halo 2 content thanks bro!!!

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 😊

I'm not satisfied until I get my FORERUNNER TANK

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

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

that elite came from the moon!

Yes! Cut content from halo 2!!

Awesome!

Yeah, Big W.

I feel your pain punished snake.

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

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

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.

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

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

Coming in clutch for lunch

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

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

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

Thank you for posting this video good sir

8:31 *sarcastic laugh*

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.

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

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

An amogus reference? Huge 2020 flashback

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

Nobody: That forerunner building at 0:29 : 🗿

Assault sounds like a dope ass level

This is nuts

4 minutes ago is absolutely diabolical

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Hmm... Interesting!

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

Halo 2 is my childhood and favorite Halo game

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

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...

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.

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.

i love you hiddenxperia

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Like other people have said these look like test levels not cut levels

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

We still Forerunner Tank "Awesomeness would have ensued"

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

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

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.

This team has done more work for halo than 343 has done.

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

Stop making me feel old, and sad that it was so long ago that I enjoyed Halo2 for so long on my Xbox 🤣😭

My favourite game of all time 🙏