Halo 2 Vista Screens Look Bad (Really Bad)
August 27th, 2006 by Darren Stevens in Action, Articles, Multiplayer, PC, Xbox360
Bungie recently released some screenshots of Halo 2 for Windows Vista, supposedly to showcase the power of the new platform. I doubt many are impressed with the screens; they look little better than Halo 1, and can in no way match recent games like Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R., or even Doom 3. Not to talk about upcoming games like UT2007 or Crysis. Check out some more disappointing screens after the jump.
The rest of the screenshots at Bungie.net
August 27th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
They do look less impressive than i thought they would b
August 27th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Hahaha, Sucka MC. Best name ever.
August 27th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Looks like Halo 2 to me … I don’t expect much than a pure port … why is anyone else expecting more? I’m just glad that it is being released on a PC platform and hopefully the assets can be extracted and used for Unreal Tournament 2007 mods like the Project Torlan team did with HaloUT for UT2K4. Anyway I have Zero complaints about Halo 2 … now if this were Halo 3 we were talking about that would be different.
August 28th, 2006 at 1:23 am
Meh/10
August 29th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
[...] I don’t understand why they are releasing Halo 2 on the PC without remastering it, but Bungie, nevertheless, has released some screenshots of their jaggy por,t and you could almost feel the eyeballs burning around the world. I’m sure it will still sell modestly, as they could put the name Halo on fossilized bird crap and it would jump off the shelves, but it’s not going to be pretty. I think the emotion I’m looking for is “BLAH.
August 29th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
The lovingly crafted visuals make the DRM totally worth it!
Pfft
September 18th, 2006 at 5:32 am
It was definitly better on X-box. I guess PC users should get an X-box or an X-box 360 instead, and with the release of HALO 3, it’s definitly money well spent…
November 28th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
This is from quite an old build, and it looks better than XBox for two reasons:
1.High Res
2.HDR
Why the hell do they require Vista to run this game?? It’d better have almost Halo3 looking graphics by the time it comes out, otherwise no-one will bother getting it.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
If they want a game to sell gamers, then why don’t they get something unique? Not some game that came out years ago on another platform that everyone’s played..
And yeah, it was an old build from April or something, I read it somewhere.., but they used that because it was stable, and the one they were working on wasn’t. So hopefully they’ve done up the graphics much more by now, but I’m surely not counting on it.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
“Halo 2 could run on XP with no problems at all.”
Yes you sir are 100% correct … unless somehow they changed the underlying middleware portion of the engine to get amazingly smooth framerates with all the eye candy turned on. Remember how GearBox butchered Halo for the PC .. well Halo 2 might actually have greater texture quality to reflect the fact is on a PC which can do 8XAA and 16xAF plus through in some HDR/Advanced real-time shadowing effects and you then get a product that is much better than it’s Xbox counterpart and may actually require DX10 to run smoothly.
The point is we need to wait to see just how different (if at all) this product is from it’s forefather. Of course ANY game that is made for the Xbox could easily run on a DX9 WinXP system …. so obviously they MUST be doing something more with it than we know. It would be too blatant a rip-off to require Vista when no improvements have been made that running this on Vista would provide a benefit to. For this product I am just adopting a wait and see attitude … Perhaps MS/Bungie will even make a “white paper” available that describes why WinXP WOULD NOT have been able to run this game in the manner they are shooting for. Also maybe this version is built to take advantage of Multi-core technology so that there is no lag for Online play and also greater Particle effects and more realistic physics …
November 29th, 2006 at 12:55 am
But the thing is, they’ve said themselves that it can run on DX9 cards, so unless DX10 is somehow an advantage to DX9 cards, I cant see why they haven’t made it run on XP too.
I’m have Vista RC2 myself, and I’ll be buying it before June, so I’m not worried about it, but not everyone will have Vista like me, it’ll take more than a year to see a majority of people using Vista.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
they look good. you just need a good graphics card to embrace it. its the same thing as halo 2 for xbox people! just a different platform. you think its like a remake or something.
August 8th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Looks better than the RE:4 release on the Wii :-P. Plus, DX 10 enhancements and wicked hi-res. I’m in.