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Halo 2 Anniversary Comic Con Trailer Reveals Newly Remastered Cinematic Footage From Academy Award Nominated FX House [VIDEO]

Halo 2 Anniversary Comic Con Trailer Reveals Newly Remastered Cinematic Footage From Academy Award Nominated FX House

Over Comic Con, 343 Industries put out a bunch of new information relating to the upcoming Halo: The Master Chief collection, which gathers all four direct Halo games into one next gen package.

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In addition to remastering the gameplay, 343 is working with the studio, Blur, on upgrading the cinematic content for Halo 2 and have just released that work in progress footage. Let's be honest, Halo 2 may still be fun to play but visually, it has not aged particularly well.

The video is in celebration of the Halo 2 anniversary, which will have its 10th birthday party a mere two days before Halo: The Master Chief Collection hits stores on November 11.

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The remastered trailer takes some of the iconic moments of the original Halo 2 and gives em the old HD treatment. Cortana looks great, the Arbiter looks real and mean and Master Chief himself has a weight to him not always presence in games. It looks impressive as anything. One kind of wishes they would go back again to the original Halo and upgrade it a second time, as a lot has happened in the three years since the Halo Anniversary.

343 also released several screens of the updated Zanzibar map, a perennial player favorite. While featuring no in game action, such as combatants, the level of detail on the map is quite stunning. I am getting thirsty just looking at the screens.

Blur, the studio in charge of updating the cinematics, is a very well regarded graphics firm. Their work includes Batman: Arkham Origins, one of the very great League of Legends trailers and you know that amazing credit sequence from Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo? That's them. They've also worked on several parts of Halo 4, as well, so this is not their first rodeo.

Check out the Halo 2 Anniversary trailer below!

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