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Put Halo 2's dark, realistic graphics in and exchange the blockyness for Halo 3's smootheness, and you get out epicness.

  • 07.20.2009 11:25 AM PDT
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Halo 3 = God Game
Halo 3: ODST = Awesome game
Halo Reach = (I hope its beyond God game!)

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I'm fed up of this graphics war thing! Gears for example is like one of the best graphical games on my 360, and guess what, I hardly ever play it, I've only started playing it recently to try getting level 50, so I can prepare to get the later achievements being released. The game is just not fun online, the rule that applies to the game, is mostly who ever shoots 1st wins, because you'll both just shoot each other and then obviously you'll lose, sure its decent, but its just not that addictive online and its very glitchy, the funny thing is I'm actually quite good at it, and 3rd person shooter are quite cool, however, its just nowhere near as fun as halo 3.
I still play Halo 3 nearly everyday, despite the fact there are no other achievements I can gain from it playing it, (Yeah, I managed to get all the ones possible so far!), I still play it nearly every day, just for the fun. The only things left to gain is medals not yet gained and to get the general rank, and even if I manage to get the general rank, I will continue playing it online, because its so fun and addictive! Besides, Halo 3 has actually got very pretty graphics! Not as realistic as gears, but Halo's graphical style is very good! I mean, have you seen the picture from the latest weekly update, incredible is what it is!
As the famous moral...dont judge a book by its cover=dont judge a game by its graphics

  • 07.20.2009 11:40 AM PDT
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Don't judge a game by it's Graphics

  • 07.20.2009 11:43 AM PDT

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Posted by: LAA51
I'm fed up of this graphics war thing! Gears for example is like one of the best graphical games on my 360, and guess what, I hardly ever play it, I've only started playing it recently to try getting level 50, so I can prepare to get the later achievements being released. The game is just not fun online, the rule that applies to the game, is mostly who ever shoots 1st wins, because you'll both just shoot each other and then obviously you'll lose, sure its decent, but its just not that addictive online and its very glitchy, the funny thing is I'm actually quite good at it, and 3rd person shooter are quite cool, however, its just nowhere near as fun as halo 3.
I still play Halo 3 nearly everyday, despite the fact there are no other achievements I can gain from it playing it, (Yeah, I managed to get all the ones possible so far!), I still play it nearly every day, just for the fun. The only things left to gain is medals not yet gained and to get the general rank, and even if I manage to get the general rank, I will continue playing it online, because its so fun and addictive! Besides, Halo 3 has actually got very pretty graphics! Not as realistic as gears, but Halo's graphical style is very good! I mean, have you seen the picture from the latest weekly update, incredible is what it is!
As the famous moral...dont judge a book by its cover=dont judge a game by its graphics


Well said man. I think that pretty much wraps it up. Even though i think Halo is still very beautiful to look at. Have you ever just stared out orbitals windows. Magnificent.

  • 07.20.2009 11:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: Badd0g360
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Posted by: Badd0g360
Halo 3 has bad graphics and yes it's out of date.

I was expecting Halo 3 to look like the first trailer they showed.

It's gameplay / story / grapics that's important too me.


1. the trailer they showed was using halo 3's engine

2. graphics are really one of the most important things to you?.... thats sad.


So why doesen't the game look as good as it did in the announcement?
You're really stupid if you think that the trailer was running on the same engine as the final product.

yes it is...

All those 3 things makes a game amazing.

What are you looking for in a game?


I wouldnt go as far as to say that they were bad. graphics are nice, but its how they are used thats important

  • 07.20.2009 11:59 AM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

It actually looks better than Halo 3.

  • 07.20.2009 12:06 PM PDT

Halo 3's graphics may be outdated, but technically, once a game hits the shelves it's graphics are already dated. For me, it doesn't matter if the graphic's are "dated", as long as the game looks and feels great to play. Isn't the whole point of video games to have fun? Do graphics really infringe upon how fun a game is? I don't think so.

[Edited on 07.20.2009 12:19 PM PDT]

  • 07.20.2009 12:18 PM PDT

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Halo is beautiful.

The environments are awesome. They have more "stuff" than any other games. Gears is all chest high wall, really.

  • 07.20.2009 12:20 PM PDT
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I thought Halo 3 had good graphics until my brother got a computer. Those things destroy these graphics on every level. It's amazing to see how behind 360's are graphics-wise.

  • 07.20.2009 12:38 PM PDT

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The Gears of War games do have very good graphics, but the problem is that everything in Gears is that everything is just a different shade of gray.

Halo 3's graphics aren't the most top notch in the world. It still looks good though. But to me, the game's real graphical strength is in it's lighting effects. I won't bother trying to describe anything in particular, but next time you play Sierra 117, stop and look at how the lighting plays off of the water (which is another thing I think they very did well) or how the lighting changes the mood of the area.

[Edited on 07.20.2009 12:53 PM PDT]

  • 07.20.2009 12:43 PM PDT
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Halo 3: http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_gamedaily/ftr_halo-3-guns_ss1.jpg

Crysis: http://www6.incrysis.com/screenshots/236bh.jpg

They were released a few months apart, and you think Halo's are top notch?

  • 07.20.2009 12:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: Striped Dragon
Halo 3: http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_gamedaily/ftr_halo-3-guns_ss1.jpg

Crysis: http://www6.incrysis.com/screenshots/236bh.jpg

They were released a few months apart, and you think Halo's are top notch?

Oops. I meant they aren't top notch. They are good, but not great. Amazing how pointless an argument sounds when one leaves out a few letters.

And Crysis still manages to knock my socks off even today.

[Edited on 07.20.2009 3:51 PM PDT]

  • 07.20.2009 12:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: Striped Dragon
Halo 3: http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_gamedaily/ftr_halo-3-guns_ss1.jpg

Crysis: http://www6.incrysis.com/screenshots/236bh.jpg

They were released a few months apart, and you think Halo's are top notch?

Your Halo 3 picture is from the beta. Get a picture of Sierra 117 because it is a jungle like the Crysis picture.

  • 07.20.2009 12:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: RifleMan Joe
Posted by: Striped Dragon
Halo 3: http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_gamedaily/ftr_halo-3-guns_ss1.jpg

Crysis: http://www6.incrysis.com/screenshots/236bh.jpg

They were released a few months apart, and you think Halo's are top notch?

Oops. I meant they aren't top notch. They are good, but not great. Amazing how pointless an argument sounds when leave out a few letters.

And Crysis still manages to knock my socks off even today.

Yea, I can't wait to see what will come out in the next ten years for the PC.

EDIT TO Halo12325:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/1578660004_5cd31ecbfe.jpg ?v=0
Crysis has far better graphics than Halo 3, partly due to the technological limits the Xbox 360 presents.

[Edited on 07.20.2009 12:59 PM PDT]

  • 07.20.2009 12:55 PM PDT

Halo 3 is a gorgeous game. There aren't a whole lot of games with beautiful scenery stretching out for several miles in the background. Then there's the art direction....

  • 07.20.2009 1:00 PM PDT
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To put it bluntly, Halo 3's graphics are not great. It's colorful, sure, but it would look incredibly better with some AA or if it was run at a higher resolution. I may be biased because I play a lot of PC games, but it's true.

In one of the interviews Joseph Staten said that Bungie realized they could do much more with the Halo 3 engine than they originally thought, so perhaps ODST will look better.

  • 07.20.2009 1:02 PM PDT
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While looking at the trailers I did not notice that big of a difference.

  • 07.20.2009 1:12 PM PDT
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I think story is the main propriortor in video game, graphics are good too but i would still love it even if it had the first tomb raider graphics in 1996.

  • 07.20.2009 1:16 PM PDT

I love Halo, I have played it since the beginning, even though I may not have had Xbox Live back then. Marathon is also a pretty good game.

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It sill looks amazing!

  • 07.20.2009 1:19 PM PDT

Make a 360 the size of a gaming computer and see how good the graphics are then. PC will always have higher-end graphics, because they can put the processor in there before it's small enough to fit inside a console.

  • 07.20.2009 1:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: DarthLurtz1
Make a 360 the size of a gaming computer and see how good the graphics are then. PC will always have higher-end graphics, because they can put the processor in there before it's small enough to fit inside a console.

There is also a lot with the cooling of a system. You can make the system by using a liquid-cooling rig, but that is very expensive.

  • 07.20.2009 1:23 PM PDT

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I still think Halo 3 has the some of the best graphics for one reason.


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  • 07.20.2009 1:48 PM PDT

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i like halos graphics :) halo has nice graphics

  • 07.20.2009 1:51 PM PDT