New Halo 3 Alpha Screens :) And Video :)

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...Alpha build remember...


...btw, i just heard that the " shield grenade" seen in the last trailer WILL be featured in the final game....

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Yeah i saw these on another forum, can' t say i see anything impressive. To me looks about the same as halo 2.
I wonder what the final product will look like.. im hearing things about saving polys on models etc for details, shrubs dust effect and all that... large draw distance possible so on and so forth..

I' m sure bungie wont disappoint. Hope it' s closer to the original though

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Anyone find any high resolution pics. Low res shots won' t say much, and video is even better.

The grass and water effects look crumy .. The graphics will no doubt be much better than this ,the question is how much better ?

While I' m not going to say it looks like crap. I' m a little worried. Some of the textures look awesome. (characters/vehicles/weapons) but the majority of the landscape looks less than Halo 2 quality. They wouldn' t only use placeholders for half of the textures would they?

But seriously , i dont think bungie would be using such textures for the final game .. Come on the grass looks like someone split some green paint ... I am praying they dont mess it up ...

In a recent weekly update, Frankie was saying that they' re going to have plants on the ground that react when you walk through them. So if these ground textures make it into the game they are going to be concealed beneath grass and other foliage. I think Bungie enjoys provoking panic and rage amongst the more hysterical members of their fanbase.

Alpha or Beta screens?

Because if that' s just an " Alpha" then don' t expect the graphics to approach what the final build quality will be like. An Alpha is just too darn early for them to even worry too much about the graphics engine. If it' s a beta though, then yea, it should be something to worry about.

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I agree with all of you. Pretty worried so far at what we are seeing, and yet still hopeful that the final product will look great.

God I hope it' s more like the first Halo.

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I could give a crap if the graphics suck...they just better fix the damn plot and gameplay in this one >.<. I' m not a graphics whore like some people, but dammit if I' m not a story one.

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I could give a crap if the graphics suck...they just better fix the damn plot and gameplay in this one >.<. I' m not a graphics whore like some people, but dammit if I' m not a story one.

I agree, although I know that the alpha build has a lot of placeholder textures and is missing many of the effects. The graphics will be much better than what we see here. I' m not even worried about the artistic merits of Halo 3, my consern as Alecrein brought up is story and gameplay as well as AI and physics. I' m pretty confident that most of these these things will be great. I read that Halo3 will have a lot more drama, I fully expect a story worthy of the Halo name. http://onthexbox.com/news903.aspx.
My only consern is gameplay, it looks like they will bring back dual wield which I hated but who knows maybe it will work this time.

My only consern is gameplay, it looks like they will bring back dual wield which I hated but who knows maybe it will work this time.

They would be smart, and I believe they have already made mention of this, to not start the player with a dual wield-able weapon. If they focus more on Two handed weapons I' ll be happy. Although I think Dual wielding is cool sometimes it is severely gimped.

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I could give a crap if the graphics suck...they just better fix the damn plot and gameplay in this one >.<. I' m not a graphics whore like some people, but dammit if I' m not a story one.

...only a buffoon would think that H3 is gonna suck graphically, it' s just in vogue right now to dis Halo 3 because it hasn' t got the Cliffy B seal of approval...

Story mode > multiplayer = Halo > Gears of War

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I thought Gears was way better than the Halo series.

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O_O Wooooah! leaked Weapons Clip O_O

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I thought Gears was way better than the Halo serie

...well i' d always purchase both, but what kind of story mode is 5 hours?

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O_O Wooooah! leaked Weapons Clip O_O

Sweet, I can' t wait to try out the new weapons, that are the exact same as they always were, which weren' t original to begin with!

Flame on!

..yah i have to admit that the weapons in Halo have always leaned on the side of disappointing...

...this is also probably why people call Resistance the one true Halo killer, but i' m hoping Bungie have taken this all into account....

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OMGWTFBBQ all of you $ony fanboiz!!!

Seriously though, i cant decide using just those low res. pics.
GIMME SOME HD VIDEOS!!

It' s foolish to think that a heavily modified Halo 2 engine could turn out as nice as a well developed game that uses UE3.0.

Halo 3 won' t look as nice as Gear of War and it won' t look as nice as Unreal Tournament 3. Everybody keeps talking about placeholder textures and models but what you' re forgetting is that what you' re seeing now is a game that' s already been in development for 2 and a half years. You can call it beta all you want but there will be no drastic improvements between now and release. They' ll finalize the textures and lighting and lock down the framerate. That. Is. All.

The Halo series has never been graphically impressive.



As for offline vs online. Online is king.

The single player campaign is nice, but has become far less important this past couple of years. I' d take a multiplayer specific Halo 3 over a story only version any day of the week. What they need to do is have an online story co-op mode like Gears. That would be great.

I don' t know why, but I was under the impression that Halo 3 was using Unreal 3 engine.


" As for offline vs online. Online is king.

The single player campaign is nice, but has become far less important this past couple of years. I' d take a multiplayer specific Halo 3 over a story only version any day of the week. What they need to do is have an online story co-op mode like Gears. That would be great."

I completely agree, it would be asinine for Bungie not to include online co-op.

The Halo series has never been graphically impressive.

I dunno, i thought halo 1 looked great at the time. I still think halo 1' s graphics were better than halo 2