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Actually, Halo 3 does have more enemies, more encounters, different weapon distribution (the power weapons, and even things like grenades, show up sooner in the campaign on heroic and legendary) and generally more "stuff" on higher difficulty levels.

Also, i don't get the people bitching about how games should "never score a ten". If you're not using the full range of your scoring system, then WTF is the point? If you never give 10s out, even for the very best games available, you've got a practical scoring range of 1-9, not 1-10. And then you might as well get rid of the 10 rating anyway, as you're never going to use it, and then you've got 9 as your 'perfect' score and you have the same problem again.

Same goes (in the opposite direction) for sites/publications that never score anything below a 5 - why have 1-10 if you only use 5-9? At that point you mgiht as well give up the pretense and switch to a 1-5 system (although if they did that, they'd probably never give out scores below a 3...)

 

I never had doubts, I always believed.

Masterpiece

 

Well, keep in mind that sonydefenceforce.com editors are not exactly Sony fanboys - they are intentionally hillarious, sometimes they succeed at it, sometimes not.

And it is the way it should be. It's not like Halo 3 visual or technology are anything to be ashamed of though...

 

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/25482.html

wow just wow halo 1 , 2 and 3 comparsion .... wow, someone still thinks it looks like xbox game??

 

Actually it was exposed on gaf that these guys are disgrunted users from wii360 who heavily favored the PS3 and their trolling got out of control. Thus they opened up SDF. Putting up spoilers and organizing to crash lauch parties by screaming out spoilers....I'd say it's a bit more than just a "joke"

 

m0dus is an editor there and he's certainly not Sony fanboy. But yeah, spoilers for 360 games aresomething that's definitely not funny.

 

Who said Halo3's graphics are "average?"

 

Quite a lot of the reviews I read....sorry if I've been misinformed. Perhaps I'll change the linguistics to "not that impressive" ? From screenshots and videos i've seen as well, in comparison to other games...the bar is rising all the time.

 

http://www.gamereactor.se/recensioner/11718/Halo+3/

swedish gamereactor 10

 

Actually as I understand it, it was a guy by username "Razoric" who I guess frequents OA and GAF, that was discovered to own both SDF and Wii60.com.

In other words, he doesn't really believe the SDF mantra, it's just a gimmick to gain hits, since he also owns anti-PS3 site Wii60.

 

Now on to the question of graphics, so far I've only read Gamespot and IGN's reviews. Those are the two biggies. Both seemed very positive on the graphics.

IGN:

Gamespot:

So I dont know, the entire premise that the graphics are "average" seems flawed to me.

 

this is beyond3d thus my comment on halos graphics (or lack of) is apt
its not just me but others as well
eg heres eurogamer (which gave the game 10/10 ), they basically say what i just said

in fact a lot of the reviews do note the disappointing graphics (+ then give it a high mark )
true like i said graphics arent everything but (esp for the FPS genre) they play a huge part

ive never owned or even touched a ps1/2/3 in my life perhaps the only person on this forum who could say that

 

And they also said:

Like I said, it appears that Bungie pushed the graphic fidelity up a notch...while at the same time almost eliminating graphics related pop-in and framerate issues.

 

And just as many or more reviews say the graphics look great. I guess those dont count, right?





I think IGN's closing comments make a great point:

 

I think there is nothing wrong with questioning a 10 rating, as it is extremely high praise. You're overreacting more than Sony crowd is I think.

Anyway, I do think the Eurogamer review seems quite fair:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=83948&page=4

 

Arwin,

Why should they change the formula? It would be like if the HL series got away from the physics puzzle and threw in magic! people wouldn't be happy. Sticking with the forumla that got you there isn't a bad thing. So executing well on the existing formula is an improvement.

 

Why didn't you link your images so people can see them in full-resolution?

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/734/734817/img_4911331.html

It looks quite bad when you see it in full-resolution.

 

It's just art.
Bright contrast colours, models, pre-backed shadows etc.
It's far from great.

And for the art -- green/pink/red SFX, enemies and players...
Never gonna understand those.
Is it a war or teenage PG-13 Sci-Fi movie?

 

No it doesn't. It doesn't look like the best graphics ever, but considering the scope of what's going on it looks very good. I think there is a very limited number of games out that you can name that look better with anywhere near as much going on.

 

Just watch the gametrailers review and then comment on graphics, please.