Now 343 Industries has re-discovered the Halo 2 E3 demo, and the official Halo Twitter account wrote late yesterday that they are going to play it once again to show the stuff we got to see but never experience: Even though we got to visit New Mombasa in Halo 2, the part we got to see in the E3 demo was never used in the actual game. The console simply couldn't handle the graphics and Bungie had to scrap everything to start it over, which led to an infamous period of crunch for the developers in order to make the deadline for the game in November 2004. And, as it turns out, ahead of the Xbox's capabilities as well. The demo was absolutely stunning and showed hugely detailed worlds in New Mombasa with cool features that were way ahead of their time. The development of Halo 2 was one of the weirder ones, as Bungie rushed to make a gameplay demo in time for E3 2003.
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