- spesalfred
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Dawn of the Dead video Here
6 Minutes of Hell video here
While bungie was making halo 2, they got a call from Gates or some other high up Microsoft executive that went something like this "hey, we want you to cut halo 2 in half, save some good stuff for the xbox 360, but we also want a second halo to boost xbox 1 sales."
So alot of the single player content was stripped, mainly large battles on earth, and the actual fight to save it, and bungie came up with the covenant perspective and all the delta halo crap. Look at it and it makes perfect sense. The halo 2 announcement trailer shows Earth in a far worse condition than halo 3's announcement trailer. The E3 video for halo 2, shows a huge city under siege, being infested by covenant and ripped apart. Now look at the game of halo 2. We have one level fighting off boarders on a MAC gun, one level running around through the back streets and slums of a city, then driving through a tunnel. And then one level of driving over a bridge, and by the time you are actually in something that could be considered a city, all you do is kill the scarab and leave. Off to play as the arbiter, go to Delta halo, fight some more flood there, go to High Charity, and then stop the Halo from being activated. It seems like they had to undergo a massive story line change, and instead of having halo 2 be the fight to save earth like the promo videos showed, it is just a big time waster. Seeing as how this will be the final halo in this storyline, I am hoping that they won't be pressed for a seasonal release, and will be able to take their time, and put in all the good content they were forced to chop from halo 2.