Halo 3 : first infos *

BZZZZZZ!!! SCANS!!

Sorry to poo-poo on the party, but we can't do this on here.

Though there are grounds for appeal: they aren't actually scans, they are digital pictures of the magazines!!!

 

Thank you for your sacrifice

 

It looks very similar to Unreal2007 , very good but not something groundbreaking.

 

Someone PM me stat!



.....please. (About what? well... *nudge*nudge* )

 

Pics shown are in alpha stage. Here is more info from the interview:

 

Which mag is running this?

 

Why is Microsoft showing their cards so early?

Oh yeah the games are a year apart. Play Gears this year then Play Halo 3 next year. I don't really see how they are competing with each other being so far apart.

 

please can someone pm me with link??

 

They want a big story around about PS3's launch. This will be on the cover of EGM in November.

Anyway, I've seen the shots, and I guess some discussion we had before about visual style and its relationship with "showing off" (I believe some we had specifically re. Halo) might become newly relevant. Although I do think it looks very good, and the shots are small/poor quality..not to mention that is is early. So let the buyer beware etc.

 

me2

 

Ok i see , thanks for the infos. I hope we will see real scans some time later.

 

me3. I want to see this badly.

 

To the guys who haven't seen the scans.

Honestly, don't get too worked up over this. I'm a Halo fan and don't get me wrong, I'm not disappointed by this, but there's nothing in those scans to get excited about other than the fact it's proof H3 is being developed, which we knew anyway.

If you've seen Halo before then you know what to expect from the pictures, as the text above says, they're early and include little in the way of graphical features and the "scans" are actually photographs of a semi-glossy magazine taken on a camera with a flash, so the quality is terrible.

If you want to get excited by Halo3 then I imagine there'll be plenty of time for that when we start seeing proper screens later on in development.

 

I'm surprised they are hedging against the visual style of Gears this early on. I mean, most of us of course know what they're talking about - even if they don't convey it as well as they could - but I think it's dangerous in this present 'textures-crazed' environment to say you're actively not going that route.

Just don't say anything about it at all and people will default to 'looks beautiful' on pedigree alone. Now everyone's going to be taking the textures to the microscope instead to see what exactly they mean.

 

Agreed. I couldn't have said it better.

 

What they showed at E3 was able to visually compete with what they showed of GOW. They didn't look the same but Halo 3 actually looked fantastic. Showing early visuals without all the bells and whistles is dangerous. While some people say that graphics aren't everything the fact that you can't play a screenshot goes to show how important visuals really are when it comes to marketing a product.