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Halo 3 is coming out in 2 months, what we saw today in the MS conference is pretty much final. It's past Beta version now, it's reaching final form, Killzone creams Halo in the graphics department at least but obviously that is nothing next to gameplay.



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Wow it does look good for a console game.

I wish they'd show more gameplay though.



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So Respear if this game is coming out in February/March 08 which a lot of rumors are saying that, you don't think there will be significant improvement on this still?



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Quickdraw McGraw said:
Amazing. I was having doubts, but it truly does look impressive.
I'm interested in hearing more about how the weather is going to be utilized, definitely some potential there.

An issue or two (The way the "leaders" mouth moved seemed irregular, small complaint that will probably be cleaned up to say the least) that keeps it from the level of the pre-rendered video, but getting this close is definitely a great accomplishment.

 Yea, that bothered me a little bit. 



Also if you notice when the ship gets shot down and starts to crash building appear and dissappear in the city. And there is heavy use of LoD and this game appears to use constrained areas to increase polygon count. It looks like Court yard street street courtyard. It remains to be seen if there are any truely wide open areas



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BenKenobi88 said:
Wow it does look good for a console game.

I wish they'd show more gameplay though.

Thank you. And yes I wanna see as much as possible.

Edit: Yeah the main leader's mouth flapping was weird, they should fix that. Usually I complain about mouthes not opening enough in characters in games, but that guy was opening too much for the stuff he was saying hehe 

 



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BenKenobi88 said:
Wow it does look good for a console game.

I wish they'd show more gameplay though.

 I guess it was one of those things where you just had to be there, lol. Yea, some more gameplay of what they showed to those 150 people would be nice. 



ckmlb said:
So Respear if this game is coming out in February/March 08 which a lot of rumors are saying that, you don't think there will be significant improvement on this still?

Bug wise Oh yes. graphically I can see them tweaking a lot of effects and taking care of the cutscenes to ensure they are smoother. At Visual Concepts most of the graphics were down Pre Alpha and then they started working on extra stuff like the Crib changing that stuff around. But the meat and bones of the games stayed the same.

Stuff like reflections and stuff were added later. One of the coolest bugs(NCAA) I found was stepping out of bounds and all of a sudden my reflection rose and I fell through the floor and crashed the game. This is most likely what they will be working on. Also in MLB I found a bug in a few stadiums where you could run your player outside of the field and keep running until you were nowhere to be seen. I think you can still do that with the Replay feature in Yankees stadium but I don't know never played the retail versions.



IllegalPaladin said:
Quickdraw McGraw said:
Amazing. I was having doubts, but it truly does look impressive.
I'm interested in hearing more about how the weather is going to be utilized, definitely some potential there.

An issue or two (The way the "leaders" mouth moved seemed irregular, small complaint that will probably be cleaned up to say the least) that keeps it from the level of the pre-rendered video, but getting this close is definitely a great accomplishment.

Yea, that bothered me a little bit.


 Oh hey, the squad leader's voice reminded me of that one guy from the third Matrix movie, lol. 



ckmlb said:
BenKenobi88 said:
Wow it does look good for a console game.

I wish they'd show more gameplay though.

Thank you. And yes I wanna see as much as possible.

Edit: Yeah the main leader's mouth flapping was weird, they should fix that. Usually I complain about mouthes not opening enough in characters in games, but that guy was opening too much for the stuff he was saying hehe 

 


Well as long the action keeps going for a game I don't mind. I like cutscenes and hate CGI and am willing ot overlook stuff like this.

 

This game looks good for what it is. However still an FPS on a console with a dual analog controller is not enticing to me.