New Retrospective Article on Halo 2 Development

[Timo]

Who is Chris and what does he do

[Saggy]

Who is Chris and what does he do

Chris Butcher I'm guessing...

[Kornman00]

^ Chris Butcher, one of the engineering leads

[Llama Juice]

Well that was interesting to read.

*puts in Halo 2*

E:/

Hey, just so ye all know, all the maps are free now.. I dunno when they made them all free... but if you wanna grab em, now's pretty much your last chance.

[teh lag]

On a related note:

The Making of Halo 2 - Showing Up Online
Yesterday, Bungie began to fill out its BuTube channel with a bunch of pieces from the Halo 2 Limited Edition bonus disc - if you've never had a chance to watch this disc, here's the first (official) chance online!

• Halo Origins
• Beyond Single Player, Multiplayer, and Live
• Cutting Room Floor Cinematics
• Cutting Room Floor Weapons Vehicles and Characters
• Developing the Game Designing the Levels
• Developing the Game - Visualizing the Story
• First Look Halo 2

There are a few compromises Bungie had to make to put these up; if we find time, we may try and rectify these compromises for them.

Neat stuff in there, if you haven't seen it before. I'm probably in a minority here but I absolutely loved Halo 2's campaign, moreso than H3's and almost more than H1's, so that environment and cinematic overview stuff gets me erect. Then there's also the novelty of seeing stuff that got cut or changed for release...

[Siliconmaster]

Neat stuff in there, if you haven't seen it before. I'm probably in a minority here but I absolutely loved Halo 2's campaign, moreso than H3's and almost more than H1's, so that environment and cinematic overview stuff gets me erect. Then there's also the novelty of seeing stuff that got cut or changed for release...

Nice, thanks.

[Llama Juice]

They put up the team's thoughts and memories of Halo 2's design/production.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.a...news&cid=25650

I'm like halfway through it, thought it was interesting.

Hiding the Scarab Gun on newmombasa and thinking "heh, it'll be forever before they find this!" and then having players get up there within a week by pushing Banshee through the BSP transition from the bridge. Damn. Never underestimate the player.