You think the 343 will make a Halo 2 remake sometime in the future. For me, I think it will be really awsome if they did because Halo 2 was so fun and it will be cool to see what it looks like with updates graphics.
I hope they do but I wouldn’t get your hopes up as they’ll be busy with the new Halo trilogy.
I doubt they will but If they did I’m sure it would be cool. I won’t want another Reach graphics updated game. I’d get sick of them. Halo 2 is the most unique looking of them all in my oppinion.
Probably in 2014 for Halo 2’s 10 year anniversary
A Halo 2 remake would be good.
It’s probably the one which needs a remake the most, seeing as the original has those horrid shadows pasted across the screen when you play it on the 360. If they did bring it back, they should consider re-visiting cut content, such as the covenant cruiser (instead of the bomb cutscene); and the Forerunner Tank/Gravemind intro level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGTv86smqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAfUtNr0yw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80ce3dgXa8
Everybody watch those videos because they completely describe my Amazing Halo 2 experience and all the great memories. I really want a H2 remake so bad because H2 was the best Halo game of all time.
I would love a Halo 2 remake. Possibly when Halo 4 comes out they’ll do something similar with Halo CE Anniversary where it comes with the Halo 2 campaign and a bunch of Halo 2 maps for Halo 4 matchmaking.
I wouldnt expect a specific halo 2 remake, i could see a remastered trilogy boxset somewhere down the road, quite far down the road. Probably on the xbox next at the very least.
I don’t expect it to come back.
But man…if it does. I’m glad we get CEA, but H2A would blow my mind.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGTv86smqA
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAfUtNr0yw
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80ce3dgXa8
> Everybody watch those videos because they completely describe my Amazing Halo 2 experience and all the great memories. I really want a H2 remake so bad because H2 was the best Halo game of all time.
These videos bring back great memories, but unfortunately things like this don’t happen anymore and wouldn’t even if they made a Halo 2 anniversary edition. The advent of Xbox LIVE party chat ruined this stuff, really. The stuff like the Elite massacre still happens, but it’s nowhere near as memorable anymore 
I hope the remake, if there is one, will add in leaping again. I want Zealots that not only climb over objects to get to you, but also jump at you.
> I hope the remake, if there is one, will add in leaping again. I want Zealots that not only climb over objects to get to you, but also jump at you.
Sliding Ghost! Sorry to go a bit off topic with this, but when did you get here?!
Also, agreed with that. I miss the old Zealots. All of the iterations following Halo: Combat Evolved are just boring poo. They run as fast as or (if you’re in Reach) faster than you, and just casually slash you in an anti-climactic way, doing little else. They need to be awesome again. The Combat Evolved ones were usually central to the battle, enraged, yet also restrained, as suppressive fire worked on them. Not to mention the leaps.
a Halo 2 and Halo 3 remaster on the next Xbox will be awesome IMO.
Halo 4 will be the last Halo on Xbox 360.
They already stated they don’t intend to remake the series.
It would be silly. Next players would be asking for a COMPLETELY REDUNDANT remake of Halo 3.
Halo 2 STILL has Xbox/Windows Live. AND you can already earn achievements from the game. What purpose could 343 serve by allowing players to score TWO thousand gamerscore playing Halo 2 without DLC upgrades?
I am gonna love th Halo:CE remake however I dont think they should focus on any more remakes for now. I mean seriously, whats next? A halo 3 remake? A Halo:Reach remake? They need to focus on new games rather than the older games. Halo:CEA ftw but after that they need to stop with the remakes for atleast 5 years
Personal preference had me prefer Halo 2 over Halo: CE.
Eventhough we had a few Halo 2 map remakes already, the prospect of a Halo 2 remake makes me excited, perhaps for Halo 2’s tenth anniversary?
I would imagine it something like this: Halo Anniversary will compliment Halo: Reach multiplayer and then Halo 2 Anniversary could compliment Halo 4 multiplayer.
However, I feel like Microsoft won’t green light such a project because it seems that there isn’t as much nostalgia in the community towards Halo 2. I know many people who brush off Halo 2 has the worse game in the trilogy…then again, these are also the people who never even touched the games multiplayer aspect which basically explains everything.
> Personal preference had me prefer Halo 2 over Halo: CE.
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> Eventhough we had a few Halo 2 map remakes already, the prospect of a Halo 2 remake makes me excited, perhaps for Halo 2’s tenth anniversary?
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> I would imagine it something like this: Halo Anniversary will compliment Halo: Reach multiplayer and then Halo 2 Anniversary could compliment Halo 4 multiplayer.
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> However, I feel like Microsoft won’t green light such a project because it seems that there isn’t as much nostalgia in the community towards Halo 2. I know many people who brush off Halo 2 has the worse game in the trilogy…then again, these are also the people who never even touched the games multiplayer aspect which basically explains everything.
Yeah, i would honestly love a remake as I highly regard my 8800 games of Halo 2 to be the best gaming times of my life.
But I would also really enjoy if they took a lot of from Halo 2 in making Halo 4 
> They already stated they don’t intend to remake the series.
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> It would be silly. Next players would be asking for a COMPLETELY REDUNDANT remake of Halo 3.
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> Halo 2 STILL has Xbox/Windows Live. AND you can already earn achievements from the game. What purpose could 343 serve by allowing players to score TWO thousand gamerscore playing Halo 2 without DLC upgrades?
What kind of reasoning is that? Do you know how many games have both PC and Xbox 360 versions, each worth 1,000 gamerscore without downloadable content? Quite a few. Plus, the 2,000 gamerscore gamers could have for Halo 2 total would is not justification for not at the very least porting Halo 2 to the Xbox 360. The problem with Halo 2 right now is that it rarely exists to any playable capacity. Online multiplayer only exists in one place: Windows Vista or Windows 7. The problem with this is very easily illustrated: Do you know how long it took me to install Halo 2 to my computer? Three days. I couldn’t tell you the total amount of hours, but Halo 2 Vista is absolutely riddled with install errors, and rarely installs properly without having to essentially perform surgery on your computer’s software. I personally had to remove a variety of system essential-type files for Halo 2 Vista to even consider running. I had to remove them manually, out of hundreds of files, to discover which six or seven were the ones causing the problem. This basically meant removing all the files, booting up Halo 2, seeing it worked fine, adding a file back in, booting up Halo 2 to see if it messed up the running, and so on, through hundreds of boot-ups. This was, again, after days of trying countless other solutions I found online. The real catcher is that Halo 2’s stability on my system is still not guaranteed after I found this solution. Many people have found a solution that works for them for a matter of days or weeks, but then their copy of the game drops into an unworking state once again, without visible reason.
So the Vista version of Halo 2 is just horrible. I speak from experience there. Don’t even bring it up as a viable alternative to Halo 2 on the original Xbox. It’s riddled with unsolvable install problems that Microsoft claimed many years ago to be “working out”, only to never actually work them out. On top of that, the game’s system specifications are unusually high for a game that looks runs and looks so bad. That port just wasn’t built well.
As for the Xbox 360 emulation, that is also a rather incomplete experience. To name one issue, many people are stuck without any of the downloadable maps. I am one of those people. Further, the Blastacular map pack is not retrievable at all to me (not on Xbox 360 nor Vista), even if I were to find and buy the multiplayer disc again. So even if I were to get a group of a few friends together for a LAN party or even a local multiplayer session, my experience is limited to the shipped maps, which isn’t as fun, you must admit. Plus, the campaign on the Xbox 360 is so flawed. There’s a certain level, early in the game, that has a cutscene which “imprints” an image of something on your screen permanently. By imprint, I mean this: Think of staring at the sun, and then trying to look at things head-on. It’s difficult, right? It’s like that in Halo 2 from this cutscene. You could be at the end of the game, and the imprint will still be there, too. It doesn’t ever go away. So the Xbox 360 emulation is still a bad alternative, whether we’re talking about multiplayer or campaign.
As for just playing it on the original Xbox, that’s impossible for me. I sold mine years ago to invest in an Xbox 360, and I’m simply not willing to find and buy one again simply for the purpose of playing the Halo 2 campaign. That’s the definition of “not worth it”. If you could still find these consoles new, it might be a better deal. But you can’t, so this is a third and final bad alternative.
So, you see, in addition to the overwhelming demand for a port of Halo 2 to the Xbox 360, there is also kind of a need for it for fans of the game. There is simply no good, reliable way to play Halo 2 right now. It’s borderline unplayable to anyone not able or willing to dig around their PC or play with a huge blinding imprint on their screen all game. It only makes sense to port the game to the Xbox 360, to eliminate these rather dumb issues with trying to play it somewhere else.
I hope so! Halo 2 FTW!!!