Halo 2 Gameplay Video
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marconelly!
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Someting like that with slightly more aliasing, yes. Those still have very high AA on them.
After seeing the 8 minute trailer(im a IGN insider) all I can say is wow. I had no idea Xbox could do these graphics, looks like I will be buying this for sure. Looks SOO damn good.
The game just looks FUN.
Not to mention the framerate.. it was gold, it looked like it was running at 60fps.. Although it's probably 30, either way the whole game looks amazing.
The game just looks FUN.
Not to mention the framerate.. it was gold, it looked like it was running at 60fps.. Although it's probably 30, either way the whole game looks amazing.
zurich said:What makes you think its pre-rendered? Looks very much real-time to me.. I mean, not to bash the game in any way, but no pre-rendered stuff is that badBTW, chaps link was terrible. The IGN Insider video is alot crisper (640x480).
Where is the 640x480 IGN video? I have insider and all I got was the 320x240 video last night.
Something else I forgot to mention, someone from Bungie was on the IGN forums and he said it was all ingame and someone was playing it. He also said the warthog wasn't on a set path when MC got in the back, it was the AI driving it.
Uh no, I bet it's not lightmaps. For non-destructable/movable geometry (e.g. buildings, ground, walls, etc) I bet they are using "pre-baked" shadow volumes. For the rest it is either stencil shadow volumes or shadow buffers. You can clearly see this in both the last Halo2 trailer and in the recent E3 one. Every dynamic object casts shadows and self shadows dynamically. Vehicles, turrets, people, etc.
In the original Halo2 trailer, even fixed geometry in the walls was seen self-shadowing. But that was an indoor map. In this footage, it's hard to tell. I tried to see if any of the highway overpasses, street lamps, or other fixed geometry was casting shadows when explosions went off, but couldn't tell.
It's possible that it doesn't occur with fixed immovable geometry in game, but can occur in cut-scenes, since you can predict ahead of time each dynamic light and do some preprocessing.
I really don't care if Halo2 isn't as "full" of a lighting model as D3. The issue is how you use what you've got, and Halo2 seems to be using it pretty well.
In the original Halo2 trailer, even fixed geometry in the walls was seen self-shadowing. But that was an indoor map. In this footage, it's hard to tell. I tried to see if any of the highway overpasses, street lamps, or other fixed geometry was casting shadows when explosions went off, but couldn't tell.
It's possible that it doesn't occur with fixed immovable geometry in game, but can occur in cut-scenes, since you can predict ahead of time each dynamic light and do some preprocessing.
I really don't care if Halo2 isn't as "full" of a lighting model as D3. The issue is how you use what you've got, and Halo2 seems to be using it pretty well.
Evil_Cloud
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For this game, I would buy 5 xboxes
Tagrineth said:
Actually, on Halo 1, I watched a marine get in a ghost and fly it around fighting. (Forgot which level tho
It's been months since I've seen my Xbox) That happened more than once. But as for a Warthog..mmmm.. that would be fun, though I personally like driving it and someone in back shooting