MGO is not HD

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cleveland124 said:

ckmlb said:
Ugh this crap again? Halo 3 is not HD, COD 4 is not HD, MGO is not HD...

Who cares if it's under 720p if it looks great? COD 4 is one of the best looking games and both Halo and MGO look great.

Don't even try to start saying this is not a huge leap over anything on PS2/Wii/Xbox, the difference is astronomical. The other day I was over at a friend's house and he was playing Halo 3 on an SD TV, the snowy multiplayer map (Valhalla I think it's called) and it looked beautiful, absolutely stunning both the snow and the sky.

720p, 650p, whatever. All I know is how great these games look, even on a standard tv. The jump from last gen and from Wii is huge.

720p, 650p, whatever is all 480i on a standard TV.  So I don't know what your seeing that makes it so much better than a gamecube or xbox.  The true standard is how good games look on a 1080p TV.  Because then you have to stretch the image. 

As others have said, resolution isn't everything. I used the same TV to play NES to PS2 and I'm pretty sure the graphic quality increased. Games on PC run at high resolutions all the time but that doesn't gaurantee it looks good. I played PS3 games on a SDTV for almost a year and I assure you I could tell the graphics were much better than on my PS2 or Wii.