Is Halo 2 the GOAT FPS? 🐐

Didn't mention it was to avoid spoilers about the Arbiter, cause that edition had its manual written from the convenant perspective

I still have my copy signed by Martin O'Donnell. Such a great dude.

I had one of these cases and still regret trading it in to this day, such a nostalgic piece.

I aint feeling old, I'm feeling bricked up

The Golden Age, 1996-2015 for me. I would perform war crimes to get back to 2004 just to feel it all again.

BRO oh my god you peeled that memory off the walls of my mind. I remember staring at that case and asking my dad why it wasn't plastic like the rest. Damn, I wish I still had it

Halo 2 is the greatest game of all time and no one will ever change my mind.

I had this but it rusted so bad i got rid of it. Though it was cool to see master chief with rusted camo XD

I miss the good old days of halo back when bungie still made the games and the franchise was booming

I still have my copy. 💙

i remember staying home from school to play this game lol probably one of the best halo games ever made

Wait a damn minute? I have to look at my box again 🤔…..😮

My dad has one of these with the game inside and a old 7 Eleven free slushie coupon that came with it as part of a promotion lol

I just picked up a Halo 2 steel book for $20. Still had the protective sleeve and all the inside papers. Sleeve kept it in excellent condition. No dings or rust

I have that same display case. We had a whole row of them set up at the GameStop I worked at. It’s the only time I’ve seen a a publisher use steelbook displays to promote a game like that.

She’s in good shape, every case I see has little rust specks all over.

An uncle of mine still has that special edition and it is super special to me since it was the one he used on his classic xbox to finish Halo 2❤️❤️❤️

I feel like a baby, I was born the year halo 2 came out

'04 i graduated HS. On every friday/Saturday/Sunday after work me and all my buddies would meet at our old frien Joe's place where bong rips and beer bongs would commence in-between every match

Dude it new year 2024 it been 20years now Dude us 90s kids are getting old And yet I feel happy I live my life

In 2004 I was about 5 or 6, but seeing that cover at Walmart. And gamestop made me realize that something in that case was amazing.

I still love the Halo games

I remember one time when I was a kid I found the halo 2 guide book and I'd read it for hours even tho I've never owned the game or a Xbox lol

Ahhh the iconic chanting music nostalgic.

Man I remember getting that picking it up from gamestop

To think when Halo 2 came out the 20th anniversary of that year was 1984. Scary. Our childhood is now the classic period our parents used to tell us about referencing Donkey Kong and Pong…..

Fun fact the normal version of the metal case (I'ts not actually a steelbook) is actually more common than plastic case copies

I’d still buy it

I remember having one of these and losing it

My dad used to have the steel book, I miss those days

I have one of those cases, I use it for storing Halo 1, while Halo 2 is obviously in the final release case. Both are pretty beat up but I don't feel bad about it, they've been through a lot with me over the years.

By the way "SteelBook" is a specific brand of metal casings for discs, and not a general name for metal casing. Thus the trademark symbol on their logo in the official cases and on the website. Trademarks are the mechanism used to prevent others from making their products use the same names and iconography as yours.

I got this too from a retro store after i bought it i had no idea it was genuinly the display for the store

F**k you bro. Lol. Fr... that ending was uncalled for. 🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭

I actually have the release steal book to this day. The back side of it has a textile Chief on it and came with a couple of books

I legit clicked on this without knowing it from you Greg! Thumbnail grabbed me and title! 👍

aw man do i miss those xbox 360 days with everyone on voice chat. the true golden days of gaming

I saw this at GameStop once and begged my mom to buy me it but she didn't, I didn't ask for much but even since a kid I knew I needed that halo 2 collectors case

Him: Not the limited collects edition Me reading the box: “limited collector edition “😂

Can you guys believe it, next year will be 20 years since halo 2 came out, crazy…

My brother still has the Master Chief helmet display that came with the pre-order.

I still got a busted up limited edition halo 2 that my dad got right before I was born but the discs are scratched beyond repair lol

I had this. It even had a manual with the proper names for all the covenant

I bought Halo Combat Evolved and Halo 2 Limited Collector's edition for my original Xbox off EBay last night

I have this case!

I remember very distinctly seeing this in Gamestop

I feel for all the people who get nostalgia from seeing this case again, I remember when I had one of these, good times!

You have a crazy collection my friend

You may feel old, but I wouldn’t trade being a teenager in this time for any other time period. The hype and excitement for the impending release of Halo 2 was a once in a lifetime thing. You just had to be there.

I'm feeling upset that I got rid of about twenty if these that I kept when I worked at GameStop, along w games like Rez, etc. 😭

I have 3 of these. Along with like 4 copies of the halo 2 demo. My uncle used to work at Best Buy

I still have the actual special edition case. One of my prized possessions.

Had one of them but my cousin tor it in half. Still have it, and bloody hell, it was tough to dint or break.

I had this version. My brother got it for me for my birthday when I was a kid. The front of the case was dented, so I bet it was only worth the regular price of the game.

I actually own one of these and didn't even know it was rare lol! Filled of dents, scratch marks and dust.

I remember when I was playing on my Xbox 360 back in 2014 I was 7 at that time and thought I was able to play the game after I finished playing halo 3

i recently acquired a limited collector's edition halo 2, and spent a week gushibg about the differences in the manual.

My wife got me one of these not a display copy but a legitimate copy and I must say fucking love it.

I remember halo 2 being the most buggy halo out there My brother and i would actually go back to playing halo 2 bc it was fun messing with the bugs that were never discovered by the internet

I have one and in the case was the developers talking about how halo two was made, and showing pictures and stuff and video of them talking

As a 31 year old that still remembers play the NES back in the day as a kid this definitely makes me feel old especially since I grew up playing the NES, SNES, PS1, N64 original Gameboy, PS2, XBOX, GameCube, Game oh advanced, gameboy advanced SP, Xbox360, PS3 (I was a really spoiled kid since I lived with my grandma lol😂) and I still have all these systems to this day and more including a Nintendo Switch, Xbox series S and Series X (the series S is my sons) PS4Pro, Xbox one S, PS5 3DS I’m a bit obsessed with video games and Pokémon lol that’s literally all my man cave is down to the pillows I’ve even got my wife into loving Pokémon and videos games I keep them all safe and clean and in good condition in my man cave I don’t let anyone in there not even my son unless I’m in there also lol. But anyways I still remember playing halo 1 for the first time on my original Xbox when I was a kid and thinking this game is amazing then I got halo 2 and I really was amazed then when I was in 10th grade my grandma got me the halo 3 special edition Xbox 360 and I was stunned at how much fun I had I’d spend hours in forge with my friends just goofing off with elephant lol

Still have my og limited collectors edition case I got from a thrift store when I was like 10

Man I got just the normal steel book but no disk

few years back I happened to get one of these for $20 from a guy on craigslist that had a box full of them. wish i had got a few more

that's a beautiful piece right there 😂 I'm ngl a few other yters collect rare versions of these games

It’s crazy I had the steel book as a kid when I was growing up lol and now look worth so much and I probably traded it in for peanuts

i still have mine alongside the old books and my old 360hdd with my saves

Funny, I actually have that case as I was the game rush manager at blockbuster that set up a gaming tournament that the winner won a copy of the Legendary edition of Halo 2. When blockbuster went out I literally was given multiple games they were gonna throw away and it along with 10 mint copies of Castelvania symphony of night PS1. Wonder if it's worth anything now. 🤔

I saw one of these for $20 at a games store that I passed up. A few months later i look it up on amazon and its $200. I kick myself every time I think about it

I wish I still had mine.

2004? That’s when I was born. We’re both 19 years old.

I actually own a pre order promo version of halo odst and when I got it actually has a functioning code card to

This is a year younger than me

I have one of these (and one for the regular edition with a different cover). I got it from my Toys R Us a few months before launch.

I’ll never forget my dad coming from the store saying they sold out of halo 2 then pulls out this silver case and says just kidding!

I found one of these in a bin at a gift shop in the mountains of colorado along with other og xbox games, id still have them all if my house hadnt been robbed😭

I have one of those, didn’t know it was rarer though. I got the last steel book at GameStop.

I won this collector's edition by winning an Snk vs Capcom chaos Blockbuster tournament, like the two time Dr Disrespect

I remember my parents walking in and handing me the limited collectors edition and the first thing I did was watching the sound test DVD of the grunt and elite

My grandpa messed mine up and now the case is being held together by duct tape😭 (besides that and the disc for halo 2 itself being scratched, everything else inside is in good condition

I remember a kid at school eons ago gloating about owning the special edition and everyone else just looking at him saying they had it too, I was the only one with the standard edition from memory and still have that exact same copy to this day

I remember having missed school to play this game when it came out, my mother was not too happy about it lolll

My dad had the same box case from halo 2 when i was young but it was the released version of it

Yo I had one of those cases for halo 2! Disappeared in my many relocations, but damn I wish I’d kept that box

Damn, I want to say I still have it with the clear sleeve over it. What a time to be a gamer. I almost feel bad for kids these days growing up playing fortnite and cod war zone.

I still have my limited collectors edition of halo 2, I lost the plastic sleeve that came with it.

That's a display steel book. I remember picking mine up at blockbuster and waiting 2 years for that game to come out.

I’m not feeling old I’m feeling young, halo 2 released November 9th 2004, 2 years and 3 days after my bday… god damn and halo is my favourite franchise I did not realize I was literally just a baby while halo 1 and 2 released.

I have that case and the collectors edition too. Loved that game

I loved this era of gaming I had multiple of these. But I thought it would be worth a lot more lol. Looks like it goes for 7-10$ loose and mabye 100+ if it’s sealed.

I was never allowed to play Halo until my Younger Brother convinced my mom to let me Get the OG Halo Games off EBay for my original Xbox last night he said he's an adult and showed her some Trailer's

I remember my grandma and grandpa got me the collectors edition from sams club. Good times

I have the limited collector's edition and the Spanish limited collector's edition from Spain very rare.

I was 21 years old when this came out 2004

I got a steal on that one at the swap they gave it to me for $4 it came with original papers inside along with that a coupon for 7/11 for a free slushee

Man my Halo 2 steel book got drenched in water during a move about 10 or so years ago. Rusted it to shit. Still makes me mad to this day.

Tbf a display version of a limited edition collectors varient is in of itself rare

I still have my case, Along with Halo CE's, but not 3. Halo 3 is the only case I have missing, as I have every other halo case.

I used to pack bowls on this.