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In the eighth campaign level Delta Halo, two Kig-Yar Minor enemies wielding Plasma Rifles can be found at the end of the tank section of the level. This is the only instance in the game where enemy Kig-Yar use Plasma Rifles.
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The Mongoose was originally intended to be put into Halo 2, but was cut and later reworked for Halo 3. The Mongoose prototype did not fulfil Bungie's quality expectations for Halo 2.
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"Blow Me Away" performed by the band Breaking Benjamin can be heard as the player approaches the Mausoleum of The Arbiter, as well as during the battle. Though it may sound instrumental, the vocals have simply just been made quieter.
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Halo 2 received approximately 1.5 million pre orders before it's release, making it a platinum seller before it even hit the shelves. It made $125 million within 24 hours of it's release.
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The PC version of Halo 2 was delayed from release due to an image of a man, who was one of the developers, mooning the camera and exposing his bare buttocks in the game's data (in an error report known as .ass).
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There are 21,090 lines of dialogue in Halo 2. Most of these are randomly triggered during combat.
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Halo 2 is the best selling original Xbox title released, with 8.49 million copies sold. That is over 2 Million more than the second best selling game on the system, Halo: Combat Evolved.
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A Soccer Ball is found in the Halo 2 Campaign level Metropolis, hidden in the rooftops. There is speculation that it was used by Bungie to test the physics engine of the game, and that they left it in the level instead of deleting it. It also appears as a Forge item available to place on certain maps in Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4.
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