Halo 2 multiplayer maps are making a return for 20th anniversary

Xbox Game Studios

For nan 20th day of Halo 2, Xbox is releasing galore of nan game’s multiplayer maps successful Halo Infinite on November 5.

Halo Studios (the caller sanction for 343 Industries) announced Monday that nan 7 maps will beryllium featured successful a playlist called Delta Arena. The maps — Ascension, Boulevard, Canopy, Conjurer, Inquisitor, Serenity, and Beaver Canyon — person been recreated successful Forge by organization members, truthful they characteristic immoderate bully ocular upgrades, on pinch caller names. For example, Beaver Canyon will beryllium listed successful nan playlist arsenic Beaver Creek. The developers person besides tweaked nan gameplay truthful it feels much for illustration Halo 2, pinch higher jumps and friends subordinate collision, and added a caller starting weapon: nan MA5K Avenger.

“Considering each nan subtle quality betwixt Halo Infinite and Halo 2, a 1:1 recreation was ne'er rather successful nan cards, but what we did travel to was that of an amalgamation betwixt nan two, pinch settings that move for illustration bequest Halo, but plays pinch elements of nan modern sandbox,” Halo Infinite designer Evan Colson sad successful an Xbox Wire post.

The blog station besides reiterated a erstwhile announcement that celebrated Halo 2 E3 2003 demo would beryllium coming to Halo: The Master Chief Collection as a afloat playable mod successful nan Steam Workshop.

The demo is champion known for being an tremendous deed erstwhile nan vide0 for it debuted astatine nan expo, but very small of it made it into nan last merchandise owed to technological constraints. Similar obstacles besides pertained to this caller type of nan demo, which was put together by modders acknowledgment to Digsite archive assets. They besides built devices that would let nan porting of those assets from usage successful an motor that doesn’t beryllium anymore. “Even nan original executable is difficult to activity with, arsenic you request an Xbox developer kit to get it to boot, which is successful progressively short proviso moreover wrong nan studio,” elder franchise writer Kenneth Peters said.

Halo: Combat Evolved was iconic erstwhile it launched alongside nan Xbox, and Halo 2 had a batch to unrecorded up to. Thankfully, it was very ambitious, utilizing Xbox Live for nan first clip for multiplayer and pushing nan communicative guardant to go 1 of nan best Halo games ever released. You tin presently play it successful Halo: The Master Chief Collection.