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Subject: Halo Reach - New Game Engine

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Posted by: lucas rincon
why are you gus replying this topic all the time ?


Because it's like the most important topic in the history of Halo. lol

  • 07.29.2009 6:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: lucas rincon
why are you gus replying this topic all the time ?


Because it's like the most important topic in the history of Halo. lol


And also, Halo: Reach's new game engine is also important as it decides the fate of the Halo Series. You do want it to be good don't you?

  • 07.29.2009 7:50 PM PDT

I would like to shut up the graphics fanatics, I think i speak for everyone saying this, but let them drool over their amazing graphics, halo 3 has amazing and entertaining gameplay and that's what counts.

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Posted by: Wolverfrog
It will look like Starry Night, and it will support 1080p.

I hope...


dude i had completely forgotten about this trailer. this is boss thank you.

  • 07.29.2009 8:28 PM PDT

CryEngine2 is optimized for the 360 and PS3 as well.

  • 07.29.2009 8:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wolverfrog
It will look like Starry Night, and it will support 1080p.

I hope...


My god are you stupid? this is pre rendered CG. Halo 3 looks great in many places, better anti aliasing and human models for a start would look great. Its just needs some polish. you people seem to think halo should always set the bar for graphics. It will not that takes tomuch resources and time and takes away from the rest of the game when the focus on graphics is to high. Look at crysis, buggy and not good game play design. Also its on a 360 they cant get much better the system is five years old,In the tech world thats old.

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  • 07.29.2009 9:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Nit3mare
CryEngine2 is optimized for the 360 and PS3 as well.


Cry engine 2 will look far better on PC still. It will be downgraded for the consoles by far.

  • 07.29.2009 9:38 PM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Please Bungie, give us some AA and AF at the very least. Some higher res textures would also be nice. Honestly other than that though, Halo 3's graphics are pretty amazing in my opinion.

  • 07.29.2009 9:42 PM PDT
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To add to my above post, I put a lot of emphasis on keeping the HDR model similar. The effect can be so beautiful when combined with other elements of the game - some of the screenshots I have here show how beautiful the Halo 3 engine still is:

HDR1
HDR2
HDR3

The use of elements such as atmospheric haze combine with the HDR for a nice bloom effect. If there is another jungle in Reach, I am going to cream my pants.

Posted by: Chaosenemy
Please Bungie, give us some AA and AF at the very least. Some higher res textures would also be nice. Honestly other than that though, Halo 3's graphics are pretty amazing in my opinion.
AA would be near impossible with the HDR in it's current advanced state. The textures are very high res and full of detail in Halo 3, perhaps the lack of anisotropic filtering adds some edge aliasing and reduces detail from oblique angles.

[Edited on 07.30.2009 12:28 AM PDT]

  • 07.29.2009 9:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: Nit3mare
CryEngine2 is optimized for the 360 and PS3 as well.


Cry engine 2 will look far better on PC still. It will be downgraded for the consoles by far.


Actually, I think its Cry Engine 3 that's optimized for consoles. But yeah, Halo 3 still has some of the best graphics you ever see in games. Hopefully, Halo: Reach continues that trend.

  • 07.29.2009 9:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: Anonymous101
To add to my above post, I put a lot of emphasis on keeping the HDR model similar. The effect can be so beautiful when combined with other elements of the game - some of the screenshots I have here show how beautiful the Halo 3 engine still is:

HDR1
HDR2
HDR2

The use of elements such as atmospheric haze combine with the HDR for a nice bloom effect. If there is another jungle in Reach, I am going to cream my pants.

Posted by: Chaosenemy
Please Bungie, give us some AA and AF at the very least. Some higher res textures would also be nice. Honestly other than that though, Halo 3's graphics are pretty amazing in my opinion.
AA would be near impossible with the HDR in it's current advanced state. The textures are very high res and full of detail in Halo 3, perhaps the lack of anisotropic filtering adds some edge aliasing and reduces detail from oblique angles.


Those screenshots were nice! Halo 3's graphics are truly awesome. When compared to other games like Gears of War 2, people say Halo 3's graphics aren't that good just because you can't blow bodies apart. But I believe that the Halo Engine does have support bodies being blown apart such as The Flood.

While we are on this topic of the Halo Engine, I think I should mention another notable game called Stubbs The Zombie which uses the Halo 1 Engine. That game is a great example of what else the Halo Engine can do.

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Posted by: Anonymous101
To add to my above post, I put a lot of emphasis on keeping the HDR model similar. The effect can be so beautiful when combined with other elements of the game - some of the screenshots I have here show how beautiful the Halo 3 engine still is:

HDR1
HDR2
HDR3

The use of elements such as atmospheric haze combine with the HDR for a nice bloom effect. If there is another jungle in Reach, I am going to cream my pants.

Posted by: Chaosenemy
Please Bungie, give us some AA and AF at the very least. Some higher res textures would also be nice. Honestly other than that though, Halo 3's graphics are pretty amazing in my opinion.
AA would be near impossible with the HDR in it's current advanced state. The textures are very high res and full of detail in Halo 3, perhaps the lack of anisotropic filtering adds some edge aliasing and reduces detail from oblique angles.


I think Halo: Reach will have great graphics regardless of what game engine it uses. Well, as long as it uses a Bungie Game engine it should be good. It can't get worse. It can only get better.

  • 07.30.2009 4:35 PM PDT

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Has anyone ever considered the possibility that this new game engine has something to do with Project Natal? I read a news article about a Bungie Employee saying that it's possible. I even started a thread about it and it seems people are somewhat mixed about it. But to get the most out of Project Natal, the game engine would have to be adjusted just for it.

You can check out that thread here.

I think that's why Halo: Reach might be using a new game engine.

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  • 07.30.2009 5:28 PM PDT
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No.

Posted by: D PALMERIZER
I would like to shut up the graphics fanatics, I think i speak for everyone saying this, but let them drool over their amazing graphics, halo 3 has amazing and entertaining gameplay and that's what counts.


We aren't talking about graphics you idiot. We're talking about the engine. Very different.

Stubbs actually uses the Halo 2 engine.

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i agree with what you said but, the game engine even if its finished, it has to be graphicaly, the hiring thing said they were looking for someone to work on the ai, wich is different to the graphics and physics of the engine, also, the game is not one month away from being released, it will probably be released sometime around november 2010, its more than a year of work, so they have enough time to work on halo reach an deliver a amazing game with amazing graphics gameplay and physics.

Also, i hope that the graphics match the halo wars cutscenes, not in every aspect, but in some of them.

  • 07.30.2009 11:17 PM PDT

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well i would rather have huge and more interactive maps then visual display.

  • 07.30.2009 11:34 PM PDT

Posted by: arachnid223
well i would rather have huge and more interactive maps then visual display.

I'll take both. If games like Far Cry 2 can do it, bungie should be able to especially given their track record of pushing a system as far as it can.

  • 07.30.2009 11:50 PM PDT
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Halo: Reach will most defiantly have a great engine, no matter what people are saying about some engines can't run on that or whatever I don't seem to care, all you can do is wait and see the game and have great graphics or average graphics, simply though I have no urge to argue about implements to be used for the game engine. All I'm going to know is that It'll still be a good game, as people are saying Halo 3 didn't reach the standards it could of, well look at it today it's still one of the top games, if reach turns out not to reach to standards it doesn't mean it will ruin anything.

  • 07.31.2009 3:56 AM PDT

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CryEngine 2.

CryEngine? On a console? Do you want your 360 fried or baked?


Wat about CryEngine 3? Wasn't that demoed on consoles at E3?

  • 07.31.2009 4:26 AM PDT

every halo, except for odst (since that was supposed to be an expansion), uses a new engine...

  • 07.31.2009 7:10 AM PDT

halo reach better be like the exact gameplay as halo ce, like no duel weilding or equipment or highjacking and it should use all the original weapons and sounds. Bungie BETTER actually try and make the campaign good on reach becuase lets face it: halo 3's campaign was terrible. biggest let down in the history of mankind.. ok not that big. but still. and this is coming from bungies biggest fan and more importantly halo's biggest fan. The multiplayer in halo 3 is amazing so now that they've got that sussed out they should really put in effort into making things like a plot or maybe even characters you come to care about (i laughed when miranda keyes died, sergeant johnson went out like A loser, and they left halo 3, the supposed finale, at a cliff hanger (may i ask WHY?!)). anyways i would love to see reach with beutiful graphics and the most realistic explosions and all but in the end its the plot of the game that makes it good. Halo ce has, arguably, the greatest campaign out of any game ever and continues to be my favorite out of all the halo titles. It would be cool if bungie introduced some cool new multiplayer but really, first things come first - the campaign.
oh and this goes to bungie... REMAKE BLOOD GULCH.. plz... and let us use pelicans in multiplayer!!

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Posted by: Wolverfrog
It will look like Starry Night, and it will support 1080p.

I hope...


That would be legit.

It will be great, we'll just have to wait and see.

  • 07.31.2009 8:43 AM PDT

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Posted by: D PALMERIZER
I would like to shut up the graphics fanatics, I think i speak for everyone saying this, but let them drool over their amazing graphics, halo 3 has amazing and entertaining gameplay and that's what counts.


We aren't talking about graphics you idiot. We're talking about the engine. Very different.

Stubbs actually uses the Halo 2 engine.


Are you sure Stubbs uses the Halo 2 Engine? The game looks and feels like the Halo 1 Engine. Even the physics work like Halo 1. Plus, Stubbs the Zombie was released before Halo 2 was finished. So it couldn't have been the Halo 2 Engine.

  • 07.31.2009 3:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: Icy Dark Moon 13
every halo, except for odst (since that was supposed to be an expansion), uses a new engine...

What he said. So I'm not to worried about a new game engine changing Halo to much.

  • 07.31.2009 4:16 PM PDT