Ok,why do people keep saying that they want it to look better than gears?Do you realize the difference in scale in the two games?Gears of War's enviroments are small,and highly detailed.There's no thirty mile wide chasms.Cascading mountain ranges.Beautiful astomshperic particles and haze to with that.If The Elder Scrolls 4:Oblivion took place in an alternate Cyrodiil that was say,six square miles,instead of sixteen,the would have looked alot better.It's the scale,my friends.Halo 3's gonna freaken gonna huge.Unlike Gears,which is a blan,dark,and small.Halo 3 being bright,vivd,and huge.Note the word,HUGE.Not small hallways,with no maore than fifteen people on screen,but massive,jaw dropping scenery,with lots,and lots humans,covies,(possibly flood),all battleing it out on earth.SO how do the two compare?They don't.Two seperate games,that take place on a different scale. p.s I think the announcement trailer looks way the hell better than gears.

I'm sorry, but this game looks like -blam!-. The first screenshot looks like the original Halo 2 screens, and the other two look like retrocrap from Halo CE. What the -blam!- Bungie? Haven't you heard of "next-gen graphics?" This isn't next-gen, it's next sh1t. Booooooooooo...

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] diodki666 heres a question for people, even if the graphics arnt as Good as expected because of high expectations (of which i hope the graphics have a fair more extras for our beta test and final release like grass shards) but would you wtill buy the game and check it all out for yourself just becuase you think the graphics arnt as good as they should be or you imagined by expecting too much?? would you still finish the fight? :3 just a freindly question ive said my peice and hasnt done anything but id like to know ^^ [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Septic360 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] power ranger where the hell is the weekly update.i wanna know what is their comment on the lousy current-gen graphics they display in the screenshots.i wanna know is this 20% 40% or 50% of the final game will look like or what.[/quote] I agree. This is something that has to be clarified, how much of the final game are we looking at? And what Bungie think are the shortcomings of producing a game on a old engine (apart from the obvious). I'm sorry Bungie if I sound like a complete twat but you have to understand that there is no other game I am looking forward to more so than Halo 3 and so I (along with millions of other people) have really high expectations. It would be a REAL shame if the actual game fell short of those expectations.[/quote][/quote] oh ,so you are saying even if bungie make a piece of junk,ppl will buy it just because it has a halo3 name on the cover.if this game turns out to be a disappointment,may be ppl will not buy it,they will just read the review and then rent it somewhere like gamefly just to know what is goin on in the story. what is wrong with you.of course we want halo3 to be as great as possible,of course we want to push bungie as hard as we can to give their best into making this game.besides,next-gen games have really really high expectations,do you know majority of the games on the nex-gen systems are not even qualified to be next-gen games. i personally want this game to be the greatest game of all-time,to be highest rated game ever,even higher than legend of zelda ocarina of time.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] diodki666 heres a question for people, even if the graphics arnt as Good as expected because of high expectations (of which i hope the graphics have a fair more extras for our beta test and final release like grass shards) but would you wtill buy the game and check it all out for yourself just becuase you think the graphics arnt as good as they should be or you imagined by expecting too much?? would you still finish the fight? :3 just a freindly question ive said my peice and hasnt done anything but id like to know ^^ [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Septic360 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] power ranger where the hell is the weekly update.i wanna know what is their comment on the lousy current-gen graphics they display in the screenshots.i wanna know is this 20% 40% or 50% of the final game will look like or what.[/quote] I agree. This is something that has to be clarified, how much of the final game are we looking at? And what Bungie think are the shortcomings of producing a game on a old engine (apart from the obvious). I'm sorry Bungie if I sound like a complete twat but you have to understand that there is no other game I am looking forward to more so than Halo 3 and so I (along with millions of other people) have really high expectations. It would be a REAL shame if the actual game fell short of those expectations.[/quote][/quote] oh,so you are saying that even bungie make a junk,ppl will buy it just because it has the halo 3 name on the cover.if this game turn out to be a disappointment,may be ppl will not buy it,they will just read the review and then rent it just for the sake of kmowing the ending.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] diodki666 a few things here and there, firstly the demo which will be out in spring will be testing world wide matchmakeing most probubly and secondly the graphics or perhaps they would prefer to have completly finished work on the maps to actually show to the public, i dont think they would want us flameing things that arnt done 100% yet..just look at this forum for evidence of that *cough..thats why its not going to be out until spring im also looking forward to the cgi trailer, i dont want to see much to ruin suprises, but its still going to be an entertaining trailer so who cares. we have already seen a trailer (e3) which has the real graphics and stuff why not let them have some other fun..or why do another. strangly the more i look at the screenshots and the more i play halo 2 they do look better. and i know the graphics will not be as impressive as gears of war but gears is much more dingy and dull, a very dark gamethe details are perfect for it, whereas halo is a brighter game a jack of all trades completly diffrent setting and so on, i know im going to be impressed nethertheless and id say in my head , awww wow thats pwetty, and this one is too the person who says he wants it looking like real life..your expecting too much, i think it will look cool, but if they make it look tooo realistic i think the feel of halo would be lost. but im sure it will be to the expectations of many when we are playing the full game. actually ppl are expecting halo 3 to look prettier than gears of war,maybe not as detailed as gears.but it has to look realistic,realistic means for example:the ghost sould look like real ghost that is made up of metal with shiny purple paint job and the seat should look like real leather,when someone sit on it,the cushion will be squeeze and wrinkles and line will form on the seat.like that

what happens when the rockets arent equipped.....where do they go on your body

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Enigma080 Will there be an equivalent to the Banshee. Like a fighter jet for instance.[/quote] Yea, but then the rockets would be kinda useless. I hope they put in the UNSC Shortsword. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about look at the Halo Wars pics.

I dont know if anyone pointed this out yet...but the brand of the tires are Puma, could it be a relevence to Red vs Blue Episode 2... Go here to see the tire. http://www.keyesdesigns.com/files/halo3pumatire.jpg [Edited on 11/28/2006]

O.K. people. If you haven’t read all the posts and you have a question...the answer is probably---"it's a Spike Grenade." So there you go. I answered your question without you even asking it. Aren’t I great?

Just so people will have more fun looking at the pictures all day trying to figure stuff out. if you go to 1up.com and click on halo3 you will be able to find 24 more images of halo3 and not inmages from the trailer. (but these are not as good as what bungie posted because they arent as clear and do not get as big as that of what bungie posted.

amazing , amazing, amazing, im so glad im back!!!!!! :-D

hey if u guys want a longer artcile look @ the featured article they have in Electronic Gaming Monthly They even have a screen's of the new first person perspective ** blast doors grac lifts spike grenade and the weapons **

heres a question for people, even if the graphics arnt as Good as expected because of high expectations (of which i hope the graphics have a fair more extras for our beta test and final release like grass shards) but would you wtill buy the game and check it all out for yourself just becuase you think the graphics arnt as good as they should be or you imagined by expecting too much?? would you still finish the fight? :3 just a freindly question ive said my peice and hasnt done anything but id like to know ^^ [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Septic360 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] power ranger where the hell is the weekly update.i wanna know what is their comment on the lousy current-gen graphics they display in the screenshots.i wanna know is this 20% 40% or 50% of the final game will look like or what.[/quote] I agree. This is something that has to be clarified, how much of the final game are we looking at? And what Bungie think are the shortcomings of producing a game on a old engine (apart from the obvious). I'm sorry Bungie if I sound like a complete twat but you have to understand that there is no other game I am looking forward to more so than Halo 3 and so I (along with millions of other people) have really high expectations. It would be a REAL shame if the actual game fell short of those expectations.[/quote]

I think a fight jet you be blah.What about,say,a mini hover copter.Simular to the pelican,but much smaller. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Enigma080 Will there be an equivalent to the Banshee. Like a fighter jet for instance.[/quote]

Your on!!! [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] BootStrap But I can eat the most paste!![/quote]

Will there be an equivalent to the Banshee. Like a fighter jet for instance.

I hold my record honorably.Gelouse much? [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Listerine [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] patato chip -ignores Liserine's rude comment earlier- Yah,the mancannon is essensially the same thing.Or it sounds so to me.Diodki is right guys and gals,you can't judge an unfinished product.When I saw these screens I wasn't disappointed,as Bungie had told us prier to there release, they held alot of placeholders.So what I see now dosn't bother me.I know that Bungie's still got a few tricks up there sleeve.;)[/quote] I didnt think it was as much RUDE as it was FACT. You have the record for the most blams! in one post[/quote]

Just wanna put out there that the thing about how the way the character models move when the terrain changes and how they do it realistically is the coolest thing here...thats like the coolest thing ever...very few (any?) games have that down as of yet. You dont notice it after awhile but seriously, people kinda move through the geometry in weird places in most games (dont get me started on walking over a corpse) and in halo 1 especially the characters look like they are running on an invisble oil slick just above the ground instead of actually moving on it. Its nice to see bungie address this and do it so beautifully. can't wait. We all knew that halo 3 was gonna have better graphics and new levels and weapons and vehicles and all that, but its the things like this (and things like being able to see your leg, etc, in halo 2) that are the real gems that people to often overlook. Also that cannot have been easy programming or animation to get them to do the realistic interactions between the character models and the terrain, so a round of applause to the people at bungie who made it happen.

hey i think you should get Xbox live because its only five dollars a month and you will get a way better multiplayer experience that millions have when they play halo on xbox live

first i have to say nice update and im loving how everything is coming along =] i lloked at these and the writeup about them when it was first posted but forgot my login data and just made a new GT alittle while ago so couldnt post anything 0_o got around to re registering cuz i spotted something that i believe no one else has noticed (read first 9 pages) in the first pic, click on it to make it zoomed in, look by the red spartan in the uper left corner that just threw a granade. to the right leaning against the railing u c a gun. lets start off by saying that it is deff. not an AR or BR becuz if u look at the other pics of those guns there is no "forward sight" where the barrel runs into the forgrip. not a sniper: barrel is 2 short and the gun on the red spartans back i believe is the sniper (forget if they say so in article) changed mind, maybe shoty----->I do not belive that it is a shotgun, doesnt seem to have the "double barrel" everyone is making a fuss about and where the forgrip cuts up seems too short of a distance Wut it reminds me of is one of the turrents in H2 that was only in the single player, the mobile turrent that the marines could run around with and deploy but u could not move, only mount and fire. maybe this time we can deploy and fire them in both single and multiplayer? Next thing im curious about, still in the first pic. right through the doors u c the 3 poded machin thingy? to me it looks like a missle launching system, and the first 2 pods have obviously been dispensed. i dont think it is the man cannon, i thought they said in another update that it was covie tech. and in the article they say there is a man cannon in the middle of the base, which is forrunner. maybe they have different versions of it for each map theme(human, covie. forrunner, w/e)? maybe its some kind of anti-air system for shooting down banshees? if it is a man cannon then maybe this means it only has a certian number of uses and a "recharge/respawn" time on it. im going with the its an AA device for my next theory. i think that the unrevealed mysteryis not a gun =] i think if u put the 2 together it makes sense that they have added some new kind of flying vehicle, my guess would be possibly a pelican even though it would have to be a smaller weaker (not carry too many ppl maybe lose turrent w/e) version. but wut i thinkk it might be would be something to counter the banshee in 1 v 1 air combat and logicly human. i believe from wut other ppl have said that in the halo books (haven't read them =[ ) that there is a small human combat jet, in the halo wars trailer there are deff. both human bombers and fighter jets. if u have any answers or any ideas/comments let me know ps. i think i deserve a cookie

i don't know about any one else, but that "out of ammo" text string in Snowbound looks like the message you would get in Halo 2 when ur out of ammo and needed to switch weapons i dunno

Will the AR come back in Multiplayer for Halo 3 or will it be another legend from Halo 1 (reply directly plz)

those are turrets. If yous step outside the boundary you die.

In the Snowbound map, if you look on the horizon towards the right you see two blue/gray Half-Life 2-esque striders. What are those? (Sorry if this has been asked, I wasn't going to look through every page. :P)

I see some purple blood in the "Snow bound" level is that from the plasma nade changing the color or are the elites still in the game?

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Septic360 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] power ranger where the hell is the weekly update.i wanna know what is their comment on the lousy current-gen graphics they display in the screenshots.i wanna know is this 20% 40% or 50% of the final game will look like or what.[/quote] I agree. This is something that has to be clarified, how much of the final game are we looking at? And what Bungie think are the shortcomings of producing a game on a old engine (apart from the obvious). I'm sorry Bungie if I sound like a complete twat but you have to understand that there is no other game I am looking forward to more so than Halo 3 and so I (along with millions of other people) have really high expectations. It would be a REAL shame if the actual game fell short of those expectations.[/quote] I agreed.