>>4602362There were a few species cut out from the game. There was a moving Gravemind on the last cheif mission that was hard as fuck to kill, spent 10 minutes trying to kill him on easy.
Another was the engineer species, its in halo 3 odst and reach. It just had no reason to be in halo 1 or 2. They were cut out twice. They only appeared once on my copy of halo 2, Cortana acknowledges them for a second and then enemies come at you again.