This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief Sierra 117, and you're listening to podcast

Unlocked, the world's number one Xbox podcast. Now, finish this fight. Master Chief, out.

Welcome friends to the 444th episode of podcast Unlocked, the world's number one Xbox show.

Yes, that is the ultimate palindrome. I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined by Destin Lagary.

Bam, hey everybody. It is. And Miranda Sanchez.

Thank you, Master Chief, for the intro. As always, Steve Downs. Always happy to hear from him.

Hope you better get used to that because it's going to be here every week. That's just how it is.

He's moved in. We've got a lot to cover this week. There's just a ton of new stories.

I want to start with some housekeeping notes. First, once again, a reminder,

specific to this audience, the Xbox audience. The new episode of IG Unfiltered is with

Marcus Lato, longtime bungee veteran, the longtime art director. He went on to become the

game director of Halo Reach, which is many people's favorite Halo. And he literally created Master Chief

himself. So we get into an hour's worth of great stories. Check that out on IGN, on YouTube,

or on your favorite podcast service. Also, on a similar Halo, we note, Halo 2 anniversary is out

on Master Chief Collection for PC now. So I don't know if Miranda or Destin have, if you've got a

chance to look at it, I have not yet. But it held up really well the last time I looked at it.

Yes. I've been playing a ton because I've been collecting the skulls so we can get new

screenshots for our guide. So I'm playing solo legendary. I forgot how hard solo legendaries

for Halo 2 does it well? I'll be here for a while. So some of those skulls are quite tough.

Yeah, for me, I just did, I did reach on PC, but I didn't do too on PC. It's buttery smooth.

It's good. It's just, they definitely have bungee has definitely improved their N343

shooting mechanics overall. They learned a lot from those early games. And it's really cool.

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