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First Ever Halo 3 reviews, one is perfect but both agree gfx look like Halo 2 in HD

Here we have news of the first ever two Halo 3 reviews. The Official Xbox Magazine of Australia awarded Halo 3 a score of 10/10 despite citing that the graphics of Halo 3 look similar to Halo 2 but just in HD. Elsewhere, the official Xbox Magazine of Brazil awarded it a 9/10 again stating it looked like Halo 2 in HD but all in all it is a fantastic game. Spread the word and DIGG THIS!!!

Quotes from the first ever Halo 3 reviews

* OXM Australia 10/10 - "the graphics are basically just Halo 2 in HD" (via Gamespot.com members quoting the review)

* OXM Brazil 9/10 - "Master Chief, born from the massive destruction created by human knowledge, finally found a personal reason to finish the fight" ''Halo 2 in HD'' (via Gametrailers.com forum member quoting the review)

 ==> Feel free to add other review.
If the average comment about Halo3's visual is something like "good but not amazing",
I doubt Halo3's visual are only "Halo2 in HD"...

+ feel free to tell us if this is only "rumor" then we can close the thread.

+ try to not flame too much

how can anyone say "the gfx look like halo 2 in HD" and still give it a 10? still, i wonder if this will top bioshock or not...

I dont think it will top bioshock.

But you know, IF Halo3 gfx are juste "medium/average" AND IF the game gets 10/10, it means the game is wonderfull, in a way ?

Yeah , the graphics are looking pretty bad in comparison of GoW or even Ressistance ...

Ive been looking at the in-game videos and screenshots and the graphics are pretty amazing. Perhaps not GOW good but pretty sick. Its a very different art style from gears of war though. And you have to remember that gears never had more than a dozen ppl on screen, Halo 3 is about massive battles between massive numbers of people in massive areas. Its definitely far better and far more detailed than Halo 2

Graphics isn't everything.

Did anyone expect H3 to be a graphics fest though? From the Beta impressions, everyone knew the graphics weren't going to be spectacular.

But to be fair, it was intentional - they kept the coding focused on optimizing net code, making it run smooth with 8 players online, and 4 players online in SP mode. I'd rather have a game that wasn't GOW-type graphics if it had no lag, and was perfect in every other way.

The Graphics do look better than just a Halo2 in HD, many of the effects are far far better than anything from the last Gen, the charakter and enemy models are not really that spectacular but are still very good, what I like most are the light effects, the game has a very nich feel and the colors are nice and bright, not Halo Kitty bright but better than all those dark grey or brown looking shooters, as mrstickball sayed, this is also multiplayer game with huge outdoor levels, you can´t expect Bioshock type grapics.

Looks good thus far. Certainly sounds promising and hopefully indicates the sort of reviews that shall follow.

The graphical differences have a lot to do with using color. Gears and Resistance use a very dull color palette so it is easy to make it look realistic to the human eye. Halo 3 uses real colors so it makes it much harder to make it realistic to the human eye.

I will try and dig up the article on the web, but someone actually spent time in photo shop changing the color pallatte of Halo 3 to the grey coloring and it actually showed it was equal or better to everything. When they change Gears to real colors it looked more cartoony.

I'm not trying to say one is better then the other. But, it was a very good comment that I never thought about and the guy was a desgin and print expert.