- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Halo 1 was actually a mix - There was the animations for death, and once they were done, your body conformed to the terrain.
From the demos, it looks like the deaths are still animated. In the CTF gameplay captured from E3 2004, when someone kills an Elite with an SMG, he falls to his knees and then on his face, and it looks animated.
I'm sure they will have the 'secondary' ragdoll physics implemented better, though.