Game:

Halo 2 (2004)

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Walkthrough

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Only in the last few years did I try any of the sword-fly and sword-cancel tricks after watching "halo 2 legendary segmented speed run commentary" video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyfZnmDhCvk). Most of the tricks in this vid were taken from seeing that. Was not trying to do a speed-run, so these are captures of just a normal run, one play-through with deaths edited out (for the most part), not compiled from many different runs. Focus was on fun, ease (for the most part), speed, and efficiency. Some tricks are hard to learn (like metropolis super jump to scarab), but the payoff of learning them is that you save time in future runs. Grunt Birthday skull is on for this run just because I like watching things blow up.

I usually like to play with sputnik and envy skulls on for the whole game (except no sputnik on metropolis because of the tunnel) for even less confrontation, but in honor of the segmented speed run I stuck with the same rule of only being able to use skulls after picking them up. As well, this is all one run, so no level was started independently and recorded, and all weapons carry over (where applicable).

In honor of the Halo 2 remake (that's now OFFICIALLY coming out as of E3 this week), I'm doing this series of videos that contain most of those cool tricks, but a bit more watchable being in HD. Done on the Xbox 360. Hoping the remake of Halo 2 they keep the original glitches - sword fly and super bounces specifically - even if only in a certain mode, like "glitch mode" or "original mode," and it can be done for campaign only.

The sword fly can only be done on the original unpatched Halo 2 Xbox game. So if you are using an Xbox 360 and have already updated it (most likely), just go into the settings panel and under the device you have stored your game saves and such, delete anything Halo 2 related. Of course, doing so will also wipe out any saves you may have had.

Sword cancel - with the sword, lunge with right trigger after reticle is red, then immediately press X to cancel hitting them, which makes you fly over them quite far. Hitting jump (A) at different times leads to more height/distance. Also being at the very edge of the range of where the reticle turns red with the sword is key to getting the most speed/distance from it.

Sword fly - with sword as second weapon, lock on to enemy with primary weapon when reticle red, hit x, hit y immediately after, hit right trigger immediately after. Easiest for me is to swipe my thumb over x and y buttons, and immediately after swipe hitting the right trigger. Hitting jump (A) during the sword fly will make you rise upwards, hitting it at different times during the sword fly results in different heights/distances achieved.

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