Cut Halo 2 weapons

This page discusses elements of deleted material and cut content. Some information on the page is sourced from game files and may not be verifiable through external sources. Where possible, such information should be clearly-marked and replaced with a proper external source as soon as one is available.

During the development of Halo 2, a number of weapons were cut from the game's release.

Covenant

Disintegrator

A Covenant counterpart to the UNSC Flamethrower, the Disintegrator is featured in the Halo 2 Beta and can be spawned via modding. The weapons is untextured and fires flame-like particle effects - though in third-person the effects are more akin to a kind of red plasma. The weapon appears to have a cooldown bar of some kind around the reticule, though this is nonfunctional in the beta.

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  The Disintegrator.

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  The Disintegrator in first-person.

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  The Disintegrator firing in third-person.

Human

Flamethrower

Also found in the Halo 2 beta, the M7057 flamethrower first cut from Halo: Combat Evolved and later featured in Halo PC was similarly cut from Halo 2. The weapon was eventually realised in Halo 3.

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  The Flamethrower on Lockout.

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  The pickup text for the Flamethrower has only placeholder text.

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  The flamethrower, as held in first-person.

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  The Flamethrower firing in first-person.

General-purpose machine gun (GPMG)

Although the M247 machine gun is featured in-game as a a support weapon, the general purpose machine gun (GPMG) was seemingly intended to also be available for use as a weapon in first-person. In the launch build of Halo 2, strings in the game files referenced the GPMG such as picking up and switching to the weapon. The weapon was not seen physically until the release of Halo 2 on PC as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, when the GPMG was added to the game's shared directory, allowing it to be spawned in and used via modding.

The GPMG is complete with firing, reload and melee animations, sound effects and firing particle effects, and features an altered model including a removable magazine and a buttstock not found on the original machine gun model.

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  The GPMG on the ground.

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  The GPMG in first-person.

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  Firing the GPMG.

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  Reloading the GPMG.

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  Meleeing with the GPMG.

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  A passenger in a Falcon shooting the GPMG.

Machine gun turret with grenade launcher

In early concept art and builds of Halo 2, the M247 machine gun was attached with an over-barrel 25mm grenade launcher.

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  Concept art of the M247, showing the grenade launcher.

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  An image of a Marine using an M247 GPMG with the grenade launcher attachment.

Silenced SMG

At one point in the development of Halo 2, the Suppressed SMG was intended for inclusion. The weapon features unique firing sound effects and particle effects alongside a suppressor on the barrel, though otherwise appears to inherit all the properties of the basic M7 SMG. The M7S would later make its in-game debut in Halo 2 for Windows Vista as a weapon spawn on the map Example, before being prominently featured in Halo 3: ODST. The later release of Halo 2: Anniversary would see the Suppressed SMG included in the game's updated multiplayer component.

The release of Halo 2 on PC in The Master Chief Collection similarly added the Suppressed SMG to the game files, allowing it to be used through the use of modding.

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  The Suppressed SMG, as it appears in The Art of Halo: Creating a Virtual World.

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  Dual wielding the Silenced SMG (left) and the regular SMG (right).

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  The Suppressed SMG in-game in The Master Chief Collection.