Title says it all, I did some digging and found some pictures of the mission Cortana before it got it's overhauled art style. The pics were taken from one of the old Bungie powerpoint presentations that now have a dead link on their site.

First off, the build of Halo 3 using Halo 2 (these pics are using the Xbox original apparently):









Now here are the pics using the build on the Xbox 360 dev kits:











I personally find the original art style to look better. Anyways just posted this because I don't think most people have seen them and would find them as interesting as I did.

It does look very halo 2. I like it.

and haha silenced smg.
Edited by Spiral on Sep 28, 2014 at 02:56 AM

Does this mean that Halo 3 was originally going to be an Xbox game as well?

They just did the prototyping of the environment on it, the reason H2 was "rushed" was because the 360 was nearing the end of it's dev cycle.

Wow yeah, that looks really great. Amazing to see the graphical performance the 360 gave compared to original xbox like that.

Looks very dead spacey.

It's a shame performance art never comes to fruition.

Holy @#$%. I can't say I'd prefer it over what we got, but dang that looks cool. It's like walking through somebody's super messed up intestines. I know this mission gets a lot of flak from fans, but honestly it's my favorite level from Halo 3.

if only we could turn that into a sp level here, or at least for halo 2
Edited by rcghalohell on Sep 28, 2014 at 02:56 PM

considering some of the talent in the community, I don't see why people here wouldn't attempt to remake it

nice ... didn't do that it was going to be on the xbox

These are cool, I'm surprised I haven't seen them before. If only I could get my hands on that bsp..

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Fascinating! How did you find these?

This isn't relevant to the conv.

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Bungie has a lot of stuff like this in their publications.

This publication gives off a error 404 message when downloading, unlike the others. Luckily I was able to download it from that WayBackMachine (internet archive) thing. It was a really interesting powerpoint and also showed some concept art for the level. If anyone really wants the powerpoint and is too lazy to get it themselves I'll just leave this: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bungie.net//images/Inside/publications/presentations/!Halo3_Flood_Alien_Level_Autopsy.zip

It was also uploaded here back in 2010.

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5119
Edited by 1bobsam1 on Sep 30, 2014 at 11:52 PM

You mean haloey, since it came first. I like how even though it looked amazing for its time, you could still see that this was on like previous gen consoles

No i mean deadspacey. Cuz it looks a wittle like deadspace and resident evil combined.

That actually looks really cool :o

I love how the infection form antennas look sticking out of the ground like that... And the way that they made it look like Infection forms burrowed into the ground looks amazing.