Halo 3 Beta: May 16th - June 7th

Hm... I dunno. Those beach shots don't look particularly different in the low quality comparisons. The lighting is different, but it doesn't look necessarily better. The textures on the sand actually look more detailed in the Halo 2 side. The close-up of the warhog has very little different being shown besides the viewscreen on the sniper rifle.

The interior building shots have better geometry and the lighting is better contrasted there. That's a step-up, but of course, it's a moot comparison for a map that was never meant to be shown...

 

So Bungie agrees with all those (including myself) who are underwhelmed. Good for them and I'm looking foreward to their first official showing of this game.

 

Me neither, but at least Bungie will have an easy play when they release Halo 3 and it looks miles better than the leaked beta. Cunning PR!

 

Ok, guys.

Obviously there's already been a lot of clean-up already, so I'd just like to add a few lines: Be civil, there's no need to get personal, ok? Otherwise this is heading for a lock-down.

 

Halo fanatics can tell the difference right away because they can spot on the few design tweaks easier. Their eyes are more accastomed to how Halo2 looks. The visual quality difference depicted in the comparison screens though is irrelevant to that. People who arent that dedicated to Halo2 or people who have extremely low experience with Halo2 can not spot which is which as easilly and its not their fault. And its not nAo's fault either. It could have been a whole different story if the screenshots were of better quality and the beta was much better looking. It would have been easier that way for evryone to spot which is which

So why is he attacked?

And lets face it the comparison screenshots are very bad captures. Quick glances on the screenshots arent enough for me to tell me which is which either unless I look more closely.

 

It doesn't take much effort to notice that the lightning, shadows and detail is better on the right side of the ss. A dev should be able to notice this quite easily. None of them look anything special but one is HALO2 and the other HALO3 and thus it should be abovious which one has the most detail. Granted the HALO3 shots are leaked and of blurry but still it is obvious.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9422/halo3comp4yq4.jpg
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/6127/halo3comp3hg0.jpg

 

Well the majority of pics are harder to tell. The images you posted are easier to spot on which is which. The first one doesnt compare the same place though. And they are still of very bad quality.

Well he is a developer. And an unbiased one. And we know that. Yet that's what he said. Are you suggesting that he deliberately lied or trolled? If thats what he said he saw, then thats how he actually realizes it. Lets give him a brake. I think we are overeacting with him.

The same thing happend with Laa-Yosh in the Lair thread. Lets not do it again

 

Well nAo said he was a huge fan of HALO1/2 so that should have made it easier for him to spot the difference. But yeah let's leave this discussion behind and wait for better ss of HALO3.

 

Perhaps he was too busy on heavenly sword's development for a long time and forgot how it looked and playied

Anyways I agree

 

I think Halo 3 is already gorgeous..even before all these alledged coming improvements and the fact I'm sure single player campaign will look better.

Halo 3 isn't Gears..it has nearly unlimited draw distance, tons of very clean geometry and dozens of enemies on screen.

 

I like the Halo series of games. I have played Halo one and two at a friends house. However, nothing about these screenshots really impresses me. I'm just hoping that the final game will look better.

 

As you said, Halo fans should be able to tell them apart. BTW, nowhere did I attack nao.

 

*marks calendar* alright!

 

Thanks, I'm a little cautious over Bungie/MS announcements

My guess is events where people can play the beta. I doubt it's much more than that, we know Bungie will not release anything on the storyline and the 1080p thing just seems ridiculous (at least to me).

But I'll be waiting and watching on May 11.

 

Some screenshots from a Gamefest 2006 presentation "HDR the Bungie Way" made their way onto the web today:

http://veegie.yayap.com/HDR2.jpg

http://veegie.yayap.com/HDR4.jpg

Looks like they just imported the Zanzibar map from Halo 2 for this demo. I like what I see though.

 

Please don't pose images larger than 800x600 (forum rules). Change them to links.

not bad for a test/demo, ignoring the AA, the lighting on the armour is quite good.

 

Now that looks pretty damn amazing. Looks like the Halo 2 map but Halo 3 model right?

 

Yup.

 

sun reflections on armour are gorgeus