Resistance 2 vs Halo Reach [Lens of Truth]

[binary solo]

Doobie_wop said:

binary solo said:

What's the point of this comparison? If it's visually best exclusive FPS showdown then why isn't it KZ2 vs Halo: Reach? I'm assuming Halo: Reach is the visually best exclusive FPS on 360, maybe I'm wrong.

Besides I always thought Halo was about the gameplay and Bungie never tried to max out the visuals.

Seems like a comparison with no real point to it.

It's just for fun. It's interesting to see games pitted against each other randomly and just like the Uncharted 1 vs Enslaved comparison, it's a pretty interesting topic. 

Also, Halo: Reach isn't the best looking FPS on the 360, it's performance suffers at some points and it's visuals are far more about art style than it is tech. 

They also specifically mentioned in the article that Killzone 2 would be a pointless comparison, because everyone's already analysed the game and it hasn't got much competition. They felt that Resistance deserves a go and so they pitted it against a comparable game.

Resistance 2 was never touted as a visual powerhouse, neither was Halo: Reach, it's just for fun and it's just as much about performance, than it is visuals. This isn't a competition about which is the better game, just which is the better running and looking game.

Uncharted vs Enslaved makes at least a semblance of sense, because both are on PS3. And in some respects it's a measure of whether 3rd parties have managed to grasp Teh C3LL as well as ND had way back when Uncharted:DF came out.  So there's a point to that comparison, some value in the assessment, and some truth about the progress of game developers in the result. R2 vs H:R (not to be confused with HR) doesn't have any of that useful potential.

I don't see the point in comparing the graphics/visual performance of 2 exclusive games on different machines, neither of which are examples of the technical pinnacle on either machine.

Note: I didn't surmise/ask whether Halo: Reach was the visual pinnacle of FPS on 360, I wondered whether it was the visually best Xbox 360 exclusive FPS. I can't think of any other FPS 360 exclusives, but I don't really know the 360 library.

Of course the fact that multiplat FPS are technically better on 360 shows the difference between the 360 approach to exclusives and the PS3 approach to exclusives.