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Bigger battles, improved visual quality and hopefulyl a HD resolution powering Halo: Reach...
Halo 3 was never really designed to tax the Xbox 360. Despite the addition of bells and ribbons in the form of HDR lighting and depth of field effects, the fact remains that the franchise appearance on the Xbox 360 looked a little dated and probably borrowed quite a bit from the series' outings on the original Xbox.
According to the first information from the latest issue of Game Informer, this time around Bungie is promising an engine overhauled to properly utilise the Xbox 360 for the forthcoming Halo: Reach. A statement seemingly apparent by the visual improvements demonstrated in the first real time trailer. Although it's not confirmation that Bungie will be employing entirely new tech, it does at least hint towards a move forwards and perhaps even suggestive that we'll get a true HD picture this time around.
Further information from the article suggests that the engine will handle larger scale battles than before, which is certainly handy given the multiple Spartans that exist in the Reach timeline. Serving as a predecessor to the Halo trilogy, we can also expect a return to the original blueprint with the return of Halo: Combat Evolved's shield/energy system and a simplified item setup.
Source: Kotaku
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Added:Wed 17th Nov 2010 00:45, Post No: 42
lol for an 18 rated game this website just proves just how many underage kids play game's rated 18, dont there parent give a SH** and wonder why there kids are so violent !!!.
Added:Tue 16th Nov 2010 19:27, Post No: 41
halo is my live becase its rilly fun and exiting
Added:Tue 16th Nov 2010 19:25, Post No: 40
i think that halo is brilent
Added:Tue 16th Nov 2010 19:24, Post No: 39
halo is my favret game. i think its better than black ops. my faret halo game is reach fanks for reading my bangers (braidy.b)
Added:Wed 29th Sep 2010 14:59, Post No: 38
lol pride originality whats so original about halo "its an FPS just like all FPS games" and dont bring that jet pack as an original feature as that was dont on the psx "po'ed" there is absolutly noting original about halo so take your pride and swallow it.
Added:Tue 28th Sep 2010 10:06, Post No: 37
I think you'll find GT5 will probably be a 10 given what we've seen so far...
And also we pride originality very highly, hence Heavy Rain scoring a 10.
Added:Tue 28th Sep 2010 02:02, Post No: 36
no matter what anyone says halo reach doesnt deserve 10/10 and how can halo reach have such a high Originality score "its an FPS like it or not its not an origonal idea" lol and Longevity again such a high score but that only applys to people that play online multiplayer games constantly all the time like COD4 or MW2 for anyone else that actually wants to play any of the other games comming out later this year the campagn is just too short so no Longevity shouldnt have scored 97% and originality 89% is also way too high.
for someone to claim "i dont think anyone here is a halo fanboy" and stand by the review score with such stupidity as "we were all unimpressed by halo 3" yet several months before reaches release almost every 360 and halo fanboy were constnly trying to outdo any rival console game with halo 3 (if halo 3 really want that impressive why did hords of you go out and buy it SEVERAL MONTHS/YEARS AFTER RELEASE).
to be fair id have given halo reach 7/10 (in fact there are only a very small amount of new games that have any kind of originality THAT'S NOT BEEN DONE BEFORE) just adding a few new features doesnt make it any more origonal ie GT5 on ps3 and guranteed if gwynne reviews it, it wont score 10/10 with comments like "lacks originality" but it does or at least should provide plenty of variety between racing genres.
if anyone realy wants a game that guranteed to take ages to complete yet is great fun to play try the orange box (half life 2) now theres a game worthy of 9/10 and caters for both online multiplayer and a huge story based game.
Added:Mon 27th Sep 2010 15:39, Post No: 35
I dont think anybody here is a Halo fanboy, we were all pretty unimpressed by Halo 3 and didn't touch ODST. But there can be little doubting that Reach is finally the Halo for the Xbox 360 - anybody who can't see that clearly needs to check their specs.
Added:Mon 27th Sep 2010 12:49, Post No: 34
lol gwynne why dont you just say your a fanboy of halo "armour abilitys lol fallout 3 did that miles better" ooh new invasion mode and no game quite like it lol your a f****ng joke, try quake or doom in fact what if doom had never been made your halo franchise wouldnt be what it is today, halo takes so many ideas from other developers just like microsoft has taken every idea for windows from MAC OS, halo is the most unorigonal franchise you fanboys like to call innovative.
Halo wont ever stand above any COD game FACT, Halo is totally unorigonal FACT, Halo might have a realy good story but the game is just too short "on all Halo games" FACT All Halo has is multiplayer as the supposedly "great story" mode will take a pathetic 3-4 hours to complete, sorry but 10/10 this game is not worthy of a score that high.
Added:Mon 27th Sep 2010 10:34, Post No: 33
Nothing innovative? Let's start with the Armour Abilities, they're pretty innovative, and then there's the new Invasion mode which is a fresh take on Halo multiplayer.
As far as the story is concerned, I couldn't disagree with you more. It's a brilliant story, so strong in its links to the Master Chief trilogy that it's almost as if Bungie had it planned before Combat Evolved had even shipped.
Also, consider the fact that despite Halo's huge successes in its nine year lifetime, there's still no other game quite like it. No other publisher or developer has got anywhere near the Halo formula with a different game, which really illustrates that its still a highly original experience after all this time.