News Halo 3 trailer - GOGOGO!

[WilHarris]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/05/10/halo_3_trailer/

[bloodcar]

Yeah, thanks to that damn trailer, you can't download squat on the marketplace right now.

[specofdust]

Getting it atm from the handy mirror provided. I'm not sure about how much it can actually prove though, I mean, its pre-rendered. Methinks it's more about whipping and less about showing.

[bloodcar]

Originally Posted by specofdust

Getting it atm from the handy mirror provided. I'm not sure about how much it can actually prove though, I mean, its pre-rendered. Methinks it's more about whipping and less about showing.

It looks on par with 360 graphics and Bungie have a statement saying it's all rendered in game on their website.

[Rd52]

meh its just halo not the Best FPS ever

<--- Go plays Goldeneye Best FPs ever :P

[Ziggy_man]

MIght have to buy a 360 for that! (halo2 was the only reason I bought an xbox)

[metarinka]

looks nifty, I'm wondering if it's going to be like the halo 2 announcement trailer, where it's just showing the graphics style and setting without showing any actual in game plot points

[sui_winbolo]

Go to www.bungie.net to download the high-res trailer, it's worth it. I'm so excited for Halo 3. I'm spending over $1000 on a 360 and HDTV just for Halo 3, haha.

[Stuntman]

It's all pre-rendered, but inspires that tingly feeling nonetheless

Nope... Bungie's website confirms that it is all recorded from ingame. Thats more or less the game engine boys! (unless they do some updates to it)

This is gonna rock.

[Buzzons]

wow!

[Boswell]

wow! (2)

[Gunsmith]

Originally Posted by Rd52

meh its just halo not the Best FPS ever

agreed, its the most overrated FPS ever, thats for sure

[Veles]

Originally Posted by Rd52

<--- Go plays Goldeneye Best FPs ever :P

Halo is great but it's by no means the best game I have played, Halo 1 at the beginning of the story was awesome, but quickly started to become boring untill the final level.

Halo 2's story just sucked completely, was nothing like they were making it out to be, was very dissapointed with that but the Live multiplayer was alot of fun.

I'll be buying a 360 for this game, but hopefully when I do they'll have some other good ones for me to buy.

Where did you get the releqase date confirmed? All I've heard is 2007 is everyones 'best guess'. We all know that everyones best guess of the Halo 2 release was about 2 years ahead.

[ContingenctPlan]

What's all the fuss about? To me, Halo defines mediocrity.

[rupbert]

Yeah I think the story should be edited to confirm that it is indeed running in realtime, a behind doors demo was shown to many journalists including Gamespot; showing it being played.

EDIT ***

The Bungie representatives made it clear to us that the trailer was running in real-time on the Xbox 360. The trailer is set in the African desert, and it was taken from roughly a third of the way through the game. Cowan noted that the constant battling has taken its toll on Master Chief, and you can see that by the many scratches and gouges in his armor. The flashes of Cortana seen in the trailer fill you in on the state of her mind, and the Forerunner structure seen in the distance at the end of the trailer represents a pivotal point in the story.

We next met with Marcus Lehto, Bungie's art director, who filled us in on the technology as he gave us a fly through of the locations in the trailer. The crater seen in the trailer is three miles across, and it's all rendered in real geometry. Halo 3 has a new global lighting system that now lights everything uniquely from the same source, which explains just how that setting sun looked that good as it illuminated everything in the trailer. Halo 2, on the other hand, used a lighting system that lit everything separately. Meanwhile, parallax mapping is able to give depth to structures in the distance, such as the clouds above the crater. A new particle system offers different levels of light diffusion to take the quality of the atmosphere into account, and that makes for different layers of light.

The demo shifted away from the crater to the part of the level you see the Master Chief walking in from. He was controllable, which means that the trailer indicates just how good the game will look. Lehto was able to zoom in on the Master Chief with the camera, and you could see the many different ways light reflected objects onto him. For example, you could see light reflect off the ground and onto his armor. A new materials system shows the difference between his armor and the rubber undersuit. It's so detailed that if you bring the camera close to the Master Chief's visor, you see everything in front of him reflected in it, right down to the ammo counter in his rifle.

Gamespot

An update on Bungies website also explains the tech being used, quite impressive!

[Veles]

Although I don't know how they managed to do that if oblivion looks as poor as it does (compared to that trailer at least). But then again, Bungie did manage (just about) to pull off Halo 2 on the Xbox.

[MiNiMaL_FuSS]

still not played 1 or 2...might pick um up. any good on pc?

[yahooadam]

is this being rendered on a Xbox 360 though

i guess they could be rendering it on a quad core quad SLI setup (ok SLI is better, but u get my point)

TBH ive never seen whats so great about halo, just looks like another shooter to me, never been interested in the game atall ...

[rupbert]

Originally Posted by yahooadam

is this being rendered on a Xbox 360 though

i guess they could be rendering it on a quad core quad SLI setup (ok SLI is better, but u get my point)

TBH ive never seen whats so great about halo, just looks like another shooter to me, never been interested in the game atall ...

Yes. It was confirmed to running on 360 hardware (commercial).

Halo is a game that has to be played.

[wafflesomd]

wow, what a dumb trailer, so, anything else besides a camera panning out for 3 minutes, then an explosion?