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Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: path1k
arguable, some where happy with 343i's render but i considered it an insult to Halo: Combat Evolved's legacy by lazily pasting Halo Reaches graphics over Halo: Combat Evolved's engine rather then enhancing the quality and textures of the original graphics (at least then we won't have to look at retarded looking elites for the second time)Anniversary used Saber Interactive's engine as an extra graphical layer for Anniversary's enhanced visuals. They used new textures for pretty much everything. Also, they did up the resolution and textures of the original game. Can you not tell the difference between playing Anniversary on classic mode versus playing Combat Evolved on Xbox at 640x480? If you just change to classic mode it's exactly like you claim you wanted it... just without the multiplayer.
Your judgments for Anniversary are far off from truth. You ought to do more research into this sort of stuff before bashing things like this. Pretty much everything you said was completely off from the truth.
Actually, the Saber Engine used was mainly to allow Halo: CEA to display in 3D for 3DTV's. Otherwise, the rest of it was done using an overlay from the Reach Engine.
And all the textures, at least for vehicles and NPC's, are all copied and pasted from Halo: Reach. The Banshee is probably one of the most notable examples. The banshee in CEA is the exact same as the Halo: Reach banshee.
The same thing applies with the scorpion tank and wraith. In fact, the Scorpion has a hole where the turret would've been in Reach. And the turret on the Wraith is unusable in Halo: CEA. That shows that instead of creating new textures for the vehicles, they just lazily used the assetts from Halo: Reach.
Yes, we can just switch to classic mode, but the point of the remake was to improve the graphics. But that doesn't mean just copy and paste everything from Halo: Reach. At the very least, they could've just reused Halo 3 textures since Halo 3's assetts resemble Halo 1's more than Halo: Reach does. In fact, I think the Assault Rifle in CEA was from Halo 3, it definitely does look very similar, but I can't be positive.
And also, the Halo: Reach elites looked stupid compared to Halo 2 & 3. And in Halo 1, the elites didn't originally look that great. So in both the original and remake (thanks to copied and pasted asetts), we have the same dumb looking elites again.