Halo 2 Anniversary Cinematic Trailer Released

Written by Brandon Hofer on July 28, 2014

News: Microsoft has released the Halo 2 Anniversary Cinematic Trailer to whet your appetite for the Master Chief Collection on Xbox One later this year.

Over the weekend Comic Con was taking place in San Diego and Microsoft released a new cinematics trailer for Halo 2 Anniversary, which will be part of the Master Chief Collection when it becomes available later this year. Halo 2 was (obviously) the sequel to Halo: Combat Evolved and pretty much expanded on everything that made the first game so great. There was new technological and gameplay advances, enhanced AI, better graphics and much more. That was, of course, the original Halo 2 when it was released on the original Xbox. Halo 2 Anniversary will still be the same game but it will be running two different engines much like Halo Anniversary did. With the push of a button you will be able to see how the game looked when it was originally released on the Xbox as well as how it looks with the Anniversary engine.

The Halo 2 multiplayer is back as well which Halo fans will no doubt play a lot as that is by far the most popular multiplayer suite within the Halo franchise. The other Halo games will have their respective multiplayer components as well which means a there should be around 100 maps to play on and choose from within this Master Chief Collection.

For those who might not be familiar with the Halo franchise, a brief synopsis of Halo 2 is below:

“Halo 2 is a first person action shooter that takes place in the same science fiction universe as Halo, where humans have occupied numerous worlds due to the development of superluminal travel. More than 32 years before the beginning of Halo 2, the outer colony world of Harvest was destroyed by a collection of alien races, called the Covenant. Since then, the humans and covenant have been locked into a bloody war. Shortly before the events of Halo 2, the Master Chief heads to Earth after destroying a covenant fleet to warn of an impending covenant attack on humanity’s home planet.”

Take a look at the cinematic trailer below and tell us what you think. Are you excited for the Master Chief Collection? Are you excited to be able to return to Halo 2?