- HIVPickles
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Does anyone agree? The campaign demo showing off a totally different looking, earlier version of New Mombasa. I know, Outskirts and Metropolis were based on it but the demo still looked dope. Maybe just release it on the X.B.L. Arcade with an online enabled version of H2.
It starts out with Master Chief, Cortana, Johnson, and some O.D.S.T.'s chilling in a pelican as it flys around New Mombasa while Cortana briefs you about the mission. Eventually he lands and passes by some wounded-ass marines and defends there position with a turret similar to the opening on Outskirts. The demo shows off destructible environments as you blow up cars and signs killing the grunts and jackles. Long-Swords fly by and bomb the 5hit out of a giant covenant gun similar to the one you destroy in "The Storm" from Halo 3. Then after killing a bunch of Covenant troops with his single-shot Battle Rifle, a marine hands an SMG and Chief starts duel-wielding kicking some serious ass. Then some marines pick the Chief up on a street corner in a Gauss Warthog (Metropolis) and he mans the turret and starts blowing the Shadow troop carriers. They drive around the City for a while blowing up Ghosts and Covenant troops, then a Phantom flys by and drops off Brutes that eat your marines and The Chief KILLS those FOOLS. And finally he hijacks a Ghost (HIJACKING!!! First time ever in a Halo game!) The demo closes with a cutscene of the Master Chief in a Ghost getting chased down a highway by Phantoms and then it crashes and the brutes in Ghosts chasing him run into a tunnel wall but the Chief ditches his Ghost by hoping out and scratching the 5hit out of his new armor. Then he gets surrounded by Elite Drop pods, stealth Elites pop out and pull out the sexy looking ENERGY SWORDS, Cortana makes a -blam!- comment and Chief decides to bet 5 bucks that he can stick all the Elites with sticky grenades.
If the weren't in "the Mother of all CRUNCHES" and they had some more time, they could have just re-scripted parts of it, changed some of the weapon effects and vehicle physics, added another segment to the mission- maybe were you get a Sniper Rifle and start sniping fools, they could have slipped that mission right in there after Metropolis. You get picked up by a Pelican at the end of Metropolis anyway and start off flying around what looks like the city center in a Pelican in the demo so it could work. The mission would have been called... "NEW MOMBASA"-4th Earth mission that way H2 haters can't -blam!- that they didn't stay on Earth long enough. And at the end of it, Johnson picks you up again and you get on Miranda's ship and dip.