Halo 3

[Jangle]

Saw this on Digg and thought I'd see what people here make of it.

The graphics do look impressive considering all the commotion about the game not having next-gen graphics. Although I thought it must be a cutscene, according to the post on the Bungie website it's in-game.

 

[Gorgon]

excellent, I just want this picture in Ultra-HD

 

[Dalamari]

I could see that being in-game, but the graphics look like every other game on the 360, nothing special

 

[CyberPitz]

Couldn't you technically say, a cut scene shot IS STILL In-Game? That looks too, "Woah" with non-next gen graphics.

 

[Warbie]

Looks impressive enough to me. If we get visuals of that quality and a decent framerate Halo 3 will look excellent.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Guh, apparently nobody gave you guys the memo. Cutscenes are in-game/in-engine/whatever now. What's the last time you saw a game cut to a full motion video cut-scene on a next-gen console? Never, that's when. It's been phased out already, and games are better off for it.

Semantics aside, looks purdy. Little lo-res, but I've never given much of a crap about detailed textures anyway. The most impressive part to me is the use of bloom/HDR - or rather the lack of. It's just the right amount of shiny, which is impressive for Halo.

Edit - Just me, or does his left hand look kinda like a taratula creepin up on his gun there?

 

[Asknoone]

We've already had about 3 campaign screens?

 

[Javert]

Ugh, pop over in the gametrailers forum and you'll hear PS3 fanboys bashing how the Halo 3 trailer was a lie because its model was more detailed than the one shown here.

I'm just about ready to give them a death sentenc.e

 

[TCfromBN]

Sorry, that screenshot doesn't do anything for me.

 

[Asknoone]

What annoys me is Bungie's "let the speculation commence." **** you. Speculation? Over that ****ing screenshot? Yeah, I'm sure. Oh my, check it out, grass! I wonder what this means for the Halo storyline?!

 

[knut]

**** sake, Bungie must of released about 4 Halo 3 shots involving the Master Chief just standing there, looking aimlessly into the horizion. SHOW US SOME LOCATIONS OTHER THAN ROCKS AND MOUNTAINS.

 

[Kyorisu]

I guess Bungie took lessons in useless media releases 101.

 

[destrukt]

.. but the graphics look like every other game on the 360, nothing special

Based on what, 1 or 2 images from SP? Right..

We've already had about 3 campaign screens?

Link(s)?


I want gameplay footage in 720P of SP, damn it Bungie!

 

[Eejit]

Edit - Just me, or does his left hand look kinda like a taratula creepin up on his gun there?

Yep. I wonder if that's what we're supposed to speculate about. Do characters now have large spiders instead of hands?!11

 

[Acepilotf14]

The only thing good that came out of halo was the success of the xbox and Red Vs Blue.

 

[Asknoone]

Link(s)?

http://uk.media.xbox360.ign.com/media/734/734817/img_4068992.html

Besides, there's nothing wrong with the graphics, they look absolutely fine. It's gameplay Bungie needs to work on.

 

[Adrik_Senturu]

Well seeing as they want us to speculate, the only thing I noticed was that maybe sort of kind of the reflection in his visor looks like some big ****ing exlposion in the distance. Like a mushroom cloud I guess. Than again I could just be seeing things.

 

[Warbie]

This looks so badass. Best gameever, HL2 is doombed!!1 \o/

 

[Asknoone]

No, doomed I can handle but...but not doombed!!

 

[Icarusintel]

Bungie fails. Release gameplay footage you twats.

 

[<RJMC>]

nothing special,well is halo

sure the conference of that screenshot is

"we wanted to maximize the halo experience,so like all the other game,we will make this so repetive,no more repetive! that the previous games,now heres the forest and mountains levels that are of the new ring world discovered which is a exact copy of the previous ones"

 

[Warbie]

No, doomed I can handle but...but not doombed!!

Exactly

But in all seriousness, it's doombed!!

 

[Acepilotf14]

No no... NOW THERES THE OLAH!!!!

 

[dream431ca]

I think bungie stated that there would be a photo mode in the single player, so you can take pictures. If that shot is from the photo mode, then that's not real gameplay graphics. Photo mode adds additional anti-aliasing, plus some other effects, just like in PGR3 or Forza 2.

 

[achilles_d]

What annoys me is Bungie's "let the speculation commence." **** you. Speculation? Over that ****ing screenshot? Yeah, I'm sure. Oh my, check it out, grass! I wonder what this means for the Halo storyline?!

lmao,

legend.

 

[VictimOfScience]

Looks good as a next-gen should at this point, but I have just never cared about Halo ever since I played the first one way back when. Good for someone without a PC, but if you had a PC at the time, Halo was just so much boring and uninspired hijinks. And yes, if that is photo mode, then its not the best representation of the game itself. Oh well...E3 is just around the corner after all!! :bounce:

 

[Uriel]

I see nothing special about that screenshot.

To me that's like taking a picture of a HL2 character, and slapping

"HALF LIFE 3"

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Is it just me, or is this the least exciting media ever?

:| Whoa, high-poly master chief holding a gun. I've seen more impressive HL2 mod renders.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Well... it could be worse. It could be a poorly-rendered screenshot of MC standing there, holding a gun.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Yeah but I think alot of 360/halo fanboys were expecting more and that definitely has to be a cutscene not actually ingame gameplay but as it has been mentioned bungie are twats for not releasing any SP gameplay footage.

The only thing good that came out of halo was the success of the xbox and Red Vs Blue.

YAY! RVB FTW!

 

[StardogChampion]

I could pull off that background in the Unreal Engine 2.5.

 

[Baratos]

I dont mind the lack of single player info. The stuff given before Halo 2 came out gave the impression everything took place on Earth, when in fact only 3 levels were there and half the game was spent following an Elite. It was like if Valve had said you would spend all of Half-life 2 in Ravenholm, but you really spent most of your time playing as a Strider on the Moon or whatever.

What annoys me is Bungie's "let the speculation commence." **** you. Speculation? Over that ****ing screenshot? Yeah, I'm sure. Oh my, check it out, grass! I wonder what this means for the Halo storyline?!

I go to the Bungie forums alot, and there seems to be a discussion going on as to whether or not, in the year 2552, there is snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro based entirely off that picture. Those people are so intense it frightens me.

 

[VirusType2]

What annoys me is Bungie's "let the speculation commence." **** you. Speculation? Over that ****ing screenshot? Yeah, I'm sure. Oh my, check it out, grass! I wonder what this means for the Halo storyline?!

No, doomed I can handle but...but not doombed!!

I laughed my ass off. You win.


I think the screenshot looks amazing, but I'm more concerned with trivial things like - is the game going to be fun?

 

[99.vikram]

Contra 4 sounds a lot more promising, tbh.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I want some impossible, aka pc version surprise announcement.
*goes back to waiting for 2009 to come*

 

[ríomhaire]

I go to the Bungie forums alot, and there seems to be a discussion going on as to whether or not, in the year 2552, there is snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro based entirely off that picture. Those people are so intense it frightens me.

Those people have problems *Goes back to debating whether or not Gordon Freeman wears a helmet*

 

[-Psy-]

Most over-hyped game evar? We shall see.

 

[kupocake]

Looks nice enough, though the background looks like a simple one, and there is nothing shown beyond that and the Master Chief. We can expect Bungie to be putting most of the graphical detail into the MC for the (in-engine) cutscenes (which this undoubtedly is since Halo is a First Person game ).

Regardless, I look forward to upgrading to the Post Vista, DirectX 11 Windows Platform in order to play it.

 

[taviow]

What annoys me is Bungie's "let the speculation commence." **** you. Speculation? Over that ****ing screenshot? Yeah, I'm sure. Oh my, check it out, grass! I wonder what this means for the Halo storyline?!

You deserve to be quoted. May I?

 

[Asknoone]

Go for it.