Halo 3: Official

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Xboxyde has some HD videos up, and I don't know what Tain is talking about saying the game is just an upscaled version of Halo 2 with better textures, because the game looks damn good. It's not Gears quality good, but it has some solid fucking next gen visuals. I suppose it could have been that he was seeing it on an SDTV, or that he may just be blind.

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It looks like Halo 2 if Halo 2's level geometry was of the same quality as the models, I guess. "2.5" is a little harsh, and I'm not saying the Xbox could do it or anything, but it looks pretty plain to me. I'm sure it'll be gorgeous once Bungie implements all of the things they were talking about.

And yeah, the SDTV crapped things up a bit.

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Originally Posted by Nomi

And grenades are weak now. There went my technique.

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That sounds like Halo 2 when it was first released. I'll wait to play it to see how it feels, but I have a feeling after the game is actually released this will be changed with a patch like it was in Halo 2.

Just curious, I can't tell from the videos, but does this thing run at 60 FPS? Or is it just stuck at 30?

30.

That's inexcusable if true.

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Originally Posted by Tain

It looks like Halo 2 if Halo 2's level geometry was of the same quality as the models, I guess.

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I gotta back Tain up. The level geometry is very blocky, and that's disappointing.

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Originally Posted by Brand X

Xboxyde has some HD videos up, and I don't know what Tain is talking about saying the game is just an upscaled version of Halo 2 with better textures, because the game looks damn good.

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Here's the link to said HD videos. Now that TVersity has been patched, you can use it to stream the videos to your 360 and get a better picture of what the public beta will look like.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I gotta back Tain up. The level geometry is very blocky, and that's disappointing.

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That's how the buildings always have been due to the art direction. The Halo series has always had a very geometric and blocky style for all of its architecture. And I don't think it's a surprise at all that Halo 3 would have the same art style as the previous 2 games, so to be disappointed by it means you were really just expecting something that was really never going to happen.

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Originally Posted by Brand X

That's how the buildings always have been due to the art direction.

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It's not just the architecture, Cap'n. The cliffsides are blocky as hell, too. As are the trees, and everything else in the game. It doesn't look terrible or anything. Hell if it was a launch game, it'd be damned good. But now that next gen has hit it's stride it seems disappointingly meh, visually.

Just as an observation, I had fun crouching around and zooming in on a lot of the environment. They added some great water effects... Ff your dead body falls into the water, you hear everything distorted as if you're submerged, water flows around you when you walk in it, water slows down the electrically-run Mongoose, etc. They added in some decent plant life on Valhalla in particular, it makes it look pretty scenic at a few points.

I'm also digging the weapon placement. They're not in stupid, out of place locations. Guns are leaning up against objects that seem more appropriate, so it's not a case of 'oh hey there's a shotgun out in the middle of nowhere.'

Distant fire sounds are also amazing. I got a real kick out of them; it really does a great job of giving the impression of a battle going on, and you can tell where there's fire going on exactly by the sounds. If I had 5.1 maybe it'd be better, but I think it sounds great. That was really impressive to me on my first match.