Halo 3: Official

[Kbu Chan]

Saw this on GameHead last night, it could easily be mistaken for Halo 2.

[Joust Williams]

Which, if true, would still make it the best looking game on the Wii, which you love.

So go away.

[epmode]

Saw this on GameHead last night, it could easily be mistaken for Halo 2.

Don't be silly.

I mean, I'm not too impressed, but I would never mistake it for Halo 2.



edit: Fuck, didn't notice it was kbuchanan.

[Brand X]

lawl.

[Advocate]

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.

I wanted to say this last night.

No one really notices when your head is getting blown off by a Shotty in da face. Or a Spartan Laser to the chest. Yeah sure you'll look around at first. But when the battle kicks in ... you'll be more worried about getting blasted.

The point of Halo games are the multiplayer and how well it works for a console. I know your on Crysis's dick and all, but give this shit a rest.

[Frogacuda]

I didn't say anything about Crysis.

Anyway, better shots to compare:

Halo 2
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Halo 3:
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Yes, Halo 3 clearly looks better, but they're closer than they ought to be, and at a quick glance, yes you could mix them up.

[Tommy Tallarico]

I wanted to say this last night.

No one really notices when your head is getting blown off by a Shotty in da face. Or a Spartan Laser to the chest. Yeah sure you'll look around at first. But when the battle kicks in ... you'll be more worried about getting blasted.

The point of Halo games are the multiplayer and how well it works for a console. I know your on Crysis's dick and all, but give this shit a rest.

Gears and UT3 seem to be doing fine without having to look like shit to match up to some idealistic hope of it's-too-intense-for-graphics apologetic rationalization.

[George]

Saw this on GameHead last night, it could easily be mistaken for Halo 2.

Honestly, no. Go back and play Halo 2. The art direction is so similar, but your memory of how Halo 2 looked is a bit skewed because of all the media for Halo 3 you've been seeing forever. In addition, the physics of body motion and melee attacks are significantly different. Bodies fly backward if you kill someone with a melee attack. Dust flies up from grenade explosions, etc.

Some of the differences are subtle but if you were to look at the two games side by side you'd be hard pressed to say there's no difference.

[epmode]

Anyway, better shots to compare:

Without resorting to GAF-style bullshit, it is probably best to stick to actual in-game screenshots of Halo 2 than something like that (ultrahigh resolutions, ridiculous antialiasing, etc).

Still, Frog's right. It's very much an incremental upgrade. I'd be more disappointed, but I didn't think Halo 2 looked particularly good in the first place.

edit: Maybe they spent all this time working on online co-op, rather than the graphics, ololol.

[Nomi]

I'll defend it because yeah, playing between the two in the same day, the H3 beta is a lot better looking to me. And it's the beta, I sort of expect it to look more polished as a final product. Valhalla in particular just looks a lot better in action than, say, Coagulation.