Really sad that Microsoft treated the Digsite team like complete garbage. At least we still possess the leaked Digsite files. Come get me, Phil.

It's a crazy feeling to play an exhibit you remember watching as a kid. It felt great, though it's been known it was extremely scripted, it was also surreal essentially being an actor fumbling all of his lines in an unending bad-ass scene. With that being said it really makes you appreciate it. This was a "Mission in progress.." and looking at it outwardly in (as it was meant to be), it's great. 10/10 would recommend to anyone who remembers seeing the original.

great to experience the E3 demo in our own hands! sad that the digsite team got disolved though...

Someone make this in H2A!!!

Hi new here, I went ahead and gave it a try and I will say.. it was actually amazing to experience it. and for a long time I always wanted to try it out, and step by step, I did had a hard time to run it properly?" But I did managed to get it to work.

and also I try to recreate the move and setting to the E3 Demo and I did recorded it, but I still need to work on playing on mouse & keyboard still. but I did managed to play it with Controller? just needed to aim down and that.

but overall I must say thanks for bringing something awesome for me to try out, and my gratitude to the Modding community and to the Bungie devs and more.

But again thank you.

Still waiting on the absolute chad that is one day going to extend this demo into a full blown mission that feels like it can fit right into the halo 2 campaign. I get chills thinking about how awesome this would be.

wow they really made it sound like they did this and it was in the game , had to read their mile long dev blog or whatever to figure out its in the workshop .

Thank you to the people who helped bring this back from the DEAD , as a child i saw this video alot but never got to play it , just kinda excepted i missed this part of halos history


being able to play this is huge thanks again !

Amazing!!!!

fantastic

👍

Absolute must have in any Halo fans library.

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ah, gotcha. Good luck with the mod.

@Mantis, I was talking about the visual changes. Since Reclamier finally supports Halo 2 MCC Maps, I compared it between it and the E3 version and both of them are the same, but the E3 SMG is higher quality than its retail counterpart. Guess i'll be using the E3 SMG for my Halo: CE Overhaul Mod after all (Especially the Battle Rifle)

AFAIK, the E3 SMG is a basic weapon that technically is a single-wielded weapon that appears to be dual-wielded. There is no dual-wield function in the game engine. You can't drop one of the SMGs, for example. The guns cannot be fired independently either. Otherwise, I think they have a higher rate of fire than in the final game, but maybe that's just me.

I have a question, what's the difference between the E3 2003 SMG and final version of the SMG?

I was expecting this level when I got Halo 2 as a kid. This is so cool!

When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?

outstanding, thanks

YO how are the first person weapon animations far better in the demo and beta than the final version?!?!! wtf were they thinking?! omg bro...

I'm not sure how anyone could find it mid. But each to their own. The E3 2003 demo's literally my favourite memory of Halo 2. It's possibly because I found the finished game a disappointment (I know, it's an unpopular opinion) and would rank Halo CE and Halo 3 more highly in that order.

Obviously, if this interpretation of New Mombasa had made it into Halo 2 it would have been a fully functional mission. This is a sequence of scripted events. Bungie had to get something ready for E3 and didn't need to do more than what was necessary for a few minutes of gameplay.

I'm not sure why Bungie decided against the original New Mombasa but I'd guess after they had to scrap the original engine and all they made for it, by the time they got to New Mombasa in the story, they simply thought a daytime approach would be better. Maybe that's something to do with the Scarab, who knows.

Regardless, Halo 2 was rushed and we ended up getting a half-finished and unbalanced sequel.

Meh I can see why they didn't put that in the game, the demo was mid at best if not broken.

My original soundtracks for Crash Site, Alpha Moon and the E3 2003 credits (in with Alpha Moon) are all now available on most streaming platforms! Just look me up and you'll find 'em.

im going to stay positive and hope they update this soon? sometime maybe.

lost content????

Brings a tear to the eye

I'm 33 years old. I remember watching this preview and reading the different articles in game magazines about the play through as a child. I also remember being really bummed that the scenes were removed from the game.

I can't say how much I appreciate this.

Thank you.

Kure 'Tesum when is the halo ce e3 2000 demo coming

Been waiting so long for this mission, decades. Finally have it. So good.

yeah i feel sorry you digsite too

R.I.P. Digsite

HALO 2 we deserved

a wonderful blast from the past

@loRd_Of this is a bug when playing h2 in a different language. If your game for example defaults to german, then the demo will play english voices, but wont animate the spoken lines. Your default game language has to be english. This fixes the lip sync issue.

absolute gem

@Theghostofreach hes talking about the intro cutscenes theyre suppose to move

@loRD_Of maybe because its the demo

Please update this so I can play it. Thank You in advance!

Don't know if a common problem. The NPCs' mouths don't open when they speak during cutscene.

but when Kure 'Tesum is halo ce e3 2000 released

Since Digsite is pretty much dead, I hope that the tags (Halo CE E3 2000) eventually gets released

It's over

Kure 'Tesum read all of the members posts on their social media(s), digsite is 100% dead

I cant get it to appear selectable in campaigns even with modding allowed. Help!

Rest in Piece, this was the only thing I was looking forward to in Halo

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how do you download??

hell yeah

Kure 'Tesum you mean Digsite is not dead so that means the E3 2000 demo map and the Macworld 1999 and 1998 demo from halo 1 may come back one day

Gg