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Notice the detail from concept art to rendered gameplay screenshots. Bungie's art department has never been better. I was expecially made aware of the quality coming out of this group with the latest drawing of Sgt. Johnson (http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link =Halo3ODSTJohnsonBonus).

Though both H3 and H3: ODST were built upon the same H3 engine, the attention to detail found in ODST makes Halo 3 look as if it were built on a previous gen platform. I'm not knocking H3. Just making the point: the art in ODST looks flippn' great.

To those of you who follow these things a bit closer. Who has Bungie brought in (art department wise)? I mean, though their art department has always swung a big bat, this new ODST stuff is whole new level for the group.

[Edited on 06.18.2009 10:14 AM PDT]

  • 06.18.2009 9:59 AM PDT
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I've always loved the art of Halo. It's just a shame that half the art work is based on stuff that has been cut from the games.

  • 06.18.2009 10:03 AM PDT
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ohai...

I agree, the art work of Johnson where he is pointing is ace :)

  • 06.18.2009 10:11 AM PDT

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I think it was in the latest podcast, where they said that even though it is the same engine, they have figured out how to add even more detail to the game.

ODST looks AMAZING!

  • 06.18.2009 10:40 AM PDT

Would you dance for it?

No lie.

I was kinda disappointed at first with them reusing the Halo 3 rendering engine but it looks awsome this time around.

  • 06.18.2009 10:42 AM PDT

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That was a drawing? I honestly though that it was a souped up render taken from Halo 3...

Bungie being able to work from an already existing engine for a 'new game' is certainly nothing short of amazing. It's just like how DLC maps have slightly better polish than the retail ones because they weren't trying to cram everything at once.

  • 06.18.2009 10:48 AM PDT
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Thank you sir, that was an epic rendition of this topic.


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and how!

It has been said that during the development of Halo 3, the designers really didn't know what their engine was capable of, and now that they have been working with it for well over 2 years they are able to do much more amazing things with it, as seen in ODST.

  • 06.18.2009 11:00 AM PDT

You should get the " Art of Halo 3 " book, it's amazing how much effort and development go into these games.

But yeah, the visual quality in ODST is way up there with games like Mirrors Edge for me, I can't wait to see it up close in my living room =)

  • 06.18.2009 11:04 AM PDT
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yeah. I honestly have no idea or not if what we were looking at is a drawing and/or a stylized render. The game world is filled, these days, with artist who are capable of pulling off such work. Valve Software snatched up Dh (pronounced 'Z'... known back in the day as sijun). From what I hear, the dude is still up at Valve working on Valve's latest and greatest. That dude is magician of a artist. This new ODST stuff... it's as good as anything I have ever seen here in the game world.

Note to all the people complaining about the price of ODST... We pay Bungie so that they can attract this kind of talent in the door...

  • 06.18.2009 11:07 AM PDT
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That level looks Awesome yes yes it looks like there will be hell of a firefight there!

  • 06.18.2009 11:12 AM PDT

well after ensembles pretty awesome art bungie need to match it or better it, and i think they have

  • 06.18.2009 11:15 AM PDT