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kiefer23 on 13 December 2009
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nightsurge said:
Sorcery said:
Second impressions after watching it in HD and reading some of the analysis stuff:

1) I thought the teaser was CGi when I saw it in SD, but it's not. Bloody amazing visuals, absolutely stellar stuff. The lighting is the best I've seen on the 360 so far, maybe the best I've ever seen.

2) Good, 6-player co-op with classes, way to keep up with the game Bungie.

3) Music is excellent, as usual.

4) Was I watching CGi? Still feels like it. :P

5) This part really is actually pissing me off, but they show Spartan faces and they're all grizzled, normal looking adults. In the books they're just these creepy looking, tall young kids, due to the bone grafts, muscle injections, and so forth. WTF is this shit? I don't like it one bit.

I agree with you on all counts.  I just watched it in HD on XBL and it looks so much better than last night on Spike.  It definitely has Gears of War 2 graphics or better.

As to the last part, I believe they did look like adults by the time Reach happened.  In the original Halo series I believe the MC is at least in his 30's to 40's.  I'm betting they used more normal looking faces so as to keep the whole vision of a perfect human going.  After all, everyone wants their heroes to look good as well

What confuses me, is that so far the 6 spartans are not even including the ones that I remember from Reach.  In the last Halo: Legends video I just saw, it showed Fred and Kelly with the MC, and as far as Reach was concerned, I was pretty sure I remembered Fred, Kelly, Will, and a few others being involved.

EDIT:  Also, whoever said it was right.  There is a 7 formed in the clouds at the end.  Wonder if that is the month the beta will start?  Kinda dissappointing since that's 2 months later than the Halo 3 beta started, but oh well.

MC is 40-41 I believe at the time of Reach.