Halo: Reach GI feature internetalised, new character info revealed

*pumped, pumped, pumped, pumped, pumped, pumped, pumped, pumped, pumped,*

“It’s not mine baby”

hail to the king.

Quite different then the “in-game” shown at the VGA’s, based off those scans it looks like ODST for the most part.

Reading the names and job descriptions can’t help but think it’d be amusing to see a “Meet the….” in Valve style.

The graphics look the same as Halo 3 think ill pass

no they don’t, look at the comparison shots on page 6.

haters gonna hate…

Why even respond? lol

Everything could have been pink with black sparkles and the same thing would have been said… and will be said, even when we’re looking at proper screenshots rather than scans

Halo 3 Vs. Reach. Odd, i could have swore another Halo game came out in between those 2, one that whilst still using the same engine did have more detailed textures…

I think you might have been imagining the improvements in ODST. All they did was tweak the lighting a bit and make some artistic changes. It was the same engine.

But then I guess you haven’t done a great deal of reading on the subject.

I aint hating on it guys, that to me looks the same as Halo 3 well updated anyway. I think it is still the Halo 3 engine

it is not, though, read the “technology” section — as much as you can make out that is.

and I think they (might have) confirmed its proper 720p now.

I have Mesc and if that is a new engine then wow it looks very much like Halo 3s graphics. Even the vga trailer looks like Halo 3s graphics to me anyway.

Yup, new engine. Astonishingly though, a Halo game looks like a Halo game.

Hell, they even describe some of the new engine stuff in the scans… that it can handle around 10x the number of dynamic lights vs the Halo 3 engine, and it has a new particle effects system (one of the things which made Killzone 2 looks so good). Motion capture animation makes an appearance for the first time in a Halo game too.

Why am I responding to TH regarding a 360 game? I might as well have a Halo discussion with Zoopdeloop.

Maybe its just the art direction then but to me it looks exactly the same. The only real difference i’m seeing from ODST is that the areas in the scans are alot lighter then most of the places you visit in ODST. Other then that though character models look the same, the light seems tobe reflecting off and around characters in the same way, and environments look like their old, flat usual selves.
If this pic was amongst the scanned pages i wouldnt be able to tell it it was from ODST or Reach.

PT

I aint the only one who thinks that looks like Halo 3 and what about 360 games that comment makes no sense

Edit – Actually, scratch that… I was thinking of someone else.

As for thinking it looks like Halo 3. I could find a couple of thousand people who think Halo 3 looks like Halo 2… what does that prove exactly?

On a different note, from what I can tell, you’ve not played any of the Halo games right? Or at least there are none associated with your gamertag. COD fan I take it?

Ive played the first 3 Halos dude all good games. I aint no Tea btw if thats the guy you were thinking of . Unlike most people i like both consoles equally,
but for all the hype Greenberg is making about Halo Reach i expected better graphics but….. ill reserve judgement till i see gameplay videos.

Wait til you see it in motion

Doc Robotnik = Zoopdeloop

BTW TH, what’s up with your gamertag? Do you have a hacked 360 or something because whilst you’ve got a fairly meaningful gamerscore, xbox.com doesn’t seem to think you’ve played anything other than Left 4 Dead.

If Halo Reach is to be the biggest game of the year its going have to seriously impress with its graphics because they are some games coming out that look fucking amazing

Graphics are irrelevant to sales. Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 should have shown you that. (and on the flip side, COD)

Reach will do 5m+ without breaking a sweat.

Me gamertag is Zero Empathy dude and yea i do play a lot of L4d well i say play most of the time im just looking for a good team which is very hard to find
Send me a freind request if you want or ill send you one tomorrow when i go on

Yea Uncharted sold 2.5m in two months will likely do 4m total. Killzone 2 sold 2m worldwide bad but not a flop. It has Halo in the title of course its going to sell lol im waiting for Halo kart racing or Halo Fit joke lol.

Uncharted 2 hasn’t broken 2m yet (I know where you got that number, and it’s best left at that)…

…but that’s aside from the point. If you have to be the best looking game to sell the most, then someone should probably tell the people who are actually buying the games.

To be fair we dont know how much any of the Sony games have sold as Sony hardly ever update thier sales. I use Vg charts lol they were only 200k off on Infamous as they had thier sales at 1m when Sony said it was 1.2m.

ODST only sold 3m and it was charged as a full price game dude so no one can use the expansion pack excuse . Anyway Reach to me does look like Halo 3s graphics to be back on topic again.

You a multi console owner dude or just single format?

Apparently there’s an 8 page feature on this in the next Edge too.

/looks forward to it
/is a bit of a liar

Cheers Blerk i look forward to reading the mag in a shop then lets hope it aint sealed cause ill post the info on here if it aint lol

The fact that you mentioned expansion pack there tells you exactly why it sold less than the other Halo games. Perception = Reality.

As for lolchartz. I’m not going to go into laborious detail on why they’re a joke, again.

Yes but it was sold as a full price game thats the point im trying to make, so even though we know it was an expansion pack Microsoft marketed it as the next main Halo game yet it only sold 3m which is still fucking good lol.

Of course, the irony of that is that I got more hours out of the ODST “expansion” than I got out of many other full priced games this gen.

It’s like raiiiiiiiiiinnnn…

i can tell youre a big Halo fan dude

A bit, they’re no-where near my favourite games though. It just always makes me laugh how quick people are to go after them. Same story with the CoD games… especially now with MW.

Yep dont know why people do it maybe just to differ who knows.

That all said, four legs good, two legs better.

*someone rubbed the lamp*
who summons me?
a wish to make this a qualified game?i’ll try

Impressive.

First impressions were a bit disappointing but when I viewed it in more detail and read the information from the feature, it is shaping up to be everything I have wanted from a Halo game since Halo 2. In the comparisons and on the screens you can see some great detail and improvements over previous installations, it’s a shame it’s photos instead of scans though.

Not as much as you PT.Don’t want to steal your thunder

Geek qu ahoy:

Aren’t the second-gen spartans more prone to going a bit schizo, as in they’re definitely more agressive and suchlike (due to the more, how shall we say, experimental stuff they got pumped into them during ‘training’)…?

Sure I read that in one of the books.