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rocketpig on 18 May 2007

With people bitching about the graphics on Halo 3, here's a head-to-head comparison in HD. Make your own decision.





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johnsobas on 18 May 2007

i'm not gonna lie it doesn't look all that different. I don't think it should really matter though, it's gonna be a blast.



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rocketpig on 18 May 2007

Halo 3 is a lot crisper. The textures, guns, and even the Spartans look a lot more detailed. It's not the graphical jump I had hoped for, but it doesn't look bad.




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Rath on 18 May 2007

Its not really a huge jump is it? You can see where they changed it but its not nearly as good as I had hoped.



kber81 on 18 May 2007

Yes, it looks better than Halo2 but... not what I would expect after GoW.



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akuma587 on 18 May 2007

Yeah, Gears of War is going to make Halo 3 look much worse, IMO.



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Legend11 on 18 May 2007


rocketpig on 18 May 2007
Legend11 said:
I think some people were expecting Gears of War graphics (or better for Halo 3 considering it's hype) but to have Gears of War's level of detail, etc, in a Halo game which is much more faster moving and has a lot more characters in multiplayer would have been difficult. I think there would have been serious framerate issues especially considering your character and camera seems to move extremely fast compared to Gears of War. Maybe in 2-3 years when the console is mastered by developers such a thing might be possible, but not now.

I think it comes down to draw distance, really. In what GoW map do you climb up on a ledge and snipe from 1/2 a mile away?

Because, in a game like Halo, that's one of the main aspects of the game. Some of the maps are huge and sacrifices have to be made to do it.

With that said, I hope they add some AA to the final version. 




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sieanr on 18 May 2007

This is the beta, and people forget that the last few months of a games development is where things really come together - especially graphics. Furthermore, the multiplayer is always going to look considerably worse than the single player, and this is true f practically every game. So far I've been more impressed with the graphics than I expected. Things are definitly superior to Halo 2, not to mention it plays far better.



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akuma587 on 18 May 2007

I've seen pre-alpha builds of games on the PS3 that look better than this, namely Ratchet and Clank and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Halo 3 will sell phenomenally well since it is a Halo game, and I have not played in the Beta so the gameplay may be phenomenal, but these graphics are quite a let down considering how much Microsoft has touted this game.



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