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Posted by: HundredJono
It's most likely have gotten erased forever.
Halo 2 almost never happened, remeber that.Of course they keep things like that. Bungie has servers that hold 500+ terabytes of data, I don't see how hard it would be to keep a 2 GB build. True, Halo 2 didn't almost happen, but it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for any company to just go and delete it and forget it ever happened.
Posted by: privet caboose
Bungie stated in a somewhat recent interview that they still have that E3 build laying around the office, but they'll NEVER give it out to the public because it just isn't ready to be played by the public. This ^^^, except I think the main reason the public can't play it is simply because they can't really give it out, for both I think it would be Microsoft confindetial, and it simply can not be played with a regular XBOX.
I assume we are talking about the E3 2003 build where Cortana said "Betch yeah can't stick it". E3 2004 I believe was all multiplayer.
Bungie (like any other company out there) keeps builds of everything they've ever developed. Typically when a game even gets canceled, companies keep the last builds of games before they get canned.
Usually, it's locked behind heavy encryption, on a hard drive local to that computer, that can't be access on any network, behind a computer that is hidden behind a locked vault door, and the only person that can access that vault is the company CEO (aka any prototype Sonic build that Sega ever produce, they are known to destroy every copy of a prototype build until there is one copy. Who knows how many protos were made?).
Point is, companies always keep builds of whatever game they develop. The build of Oni from Macworld 2000 that had multiplayer, still exists. The Halo CE E3 2000 build, yup, still exists. A working build of Phoenix the day that it got cut, you betch yeah. The Halo 2 E3 build from 2003, definetly exists somewhere behind locked doors. Any chance the public will see it. Never. Then again, it wasn't made for a retail XBOX and only playable on a debug kit, or modded XBOX that runs like a debug kit.
Is there a build of Halo that exists on the PC/Mac the day before Bungie was acquired by Microsoft. Absolutely. If you put so much work into it, why not keep it? Plus, you always see videos (like in the most recent Bungie ViDoc) of early conceptions of Halo where they talk about the early days of Halo. They probably recorded all that stuff a few weeks before that ViDoc came out.
Anyway, yes that build of Halo 2 from E3 2003 exists. Will anyone ever get to play it again? Not unless you work at Bungie. I'd more curious to see the rest of the campaign levels that existed after that 2003 E3 build.