Does Bungie have the talent to graphically outdo GOW?

[onetimeposter]

What do you think? Can Halo 3 be better looking than Gears of War??

 

[pegisys]

I think it depends on if they started it yet or how much of the game is done, and are they using stuff that was left over from halo2(like all the different types of warthogs that didn't make it in the game)

I think it will look just as good or better, the halo2 engine with a few upgrades and higher resolution would look almost as good anyways

 

[Nightz]

Bungie is a talented studio i cant think of any reason why they can't at least match.

 

[therealskywolf]

I think they can. By the time, Bungie will have more experience with the hardware. And Bungie is a very talented team so i firmly believe that they can outdo GOW.

 

[c0_re]

So did Bungie create their own engine for Halo,Halo2?

 

[therealskywolf]

So did Bungie create their own engine for Halo,Halo2?

Yes.

 

[Laa-Yosh]

I think that Bungie needs to rework Halo's visual style a bit, because simply increasing polycounts and texture res on their characters won't be enough for a dramatic change anymore. But they might not have enough time to do that because of the urge to produce a system seller, so it might end up as an evolutionary sequel instead, with standard normal mapped / stencil shadowed visuals.

 

[Inane_Dork]

Outdo GoW? Maybe. It would be quite tough, though. It really depends on when Halo 3 gets released and if they make good guesses at the machine's abilities. Halo 2's stencil shadows got axed really late because of frame rate issues. Shadow mapping just didn't look as good.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

GOW is using the years of work of the UE3 engine. A comparative engine from another dev will have to match UE3's input. Not saying it can't be done, as 3 guys in a room can create an engine with more features than UE3 But it is going to need substantial work to create both a next-gen engine and content and if work hasn't started yet, either Halo3 is using UE3 or it'll be along time coming.

Speaking of which wasn't there talk a while back of Bungie saying they wanted to produce something other than Halo3? I have a dim memory of expecting no Halo3, at least for a long while.

 

[Laa-Yosh]

A Bungie animator has been making comments on nextgen content well before E3. I personally think that they've had a small research team of engineers working on Halo3 technology well before the release of H2 - and that was almost a year ago...

 

[NRP]

Even if they can't out do GOW or the next Killzone graphically, Bungie are masters of great story-driven gameplay. In my opinion, other console Devs need to eclipse the bar Bungie has set for what constitutes a great overall game. It's more than just pretty visuals. Other Devs need to out do Bungie, not vice versa.