halo 3 beta video leaked

Scruff

http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=59795

supposed to be better quality one doing the rounds on torrents

Riesen_Meal

Now thats lookin more like it!

~Marky~

Wow looks amazing Thanks for the vid

GrumPy

As an avid Halo fan, that video disgusts me. Not that I expected better, but it really just is halo 2 with a skin. Yes, it's a beta, I know, but GOD it just sickens me.

godtabh

Was it just me or was the video quality poor?

I liked to look of the level but its just halo 2 as above

Retr0gamer

One very big 'meh' from me. Not even remotely impressive visually and with the same Halo 2 gameplay we are all sick of by now. Looks like a Wii game, a bad Wii game at that.

johnnyflav

I really hope it looks better than that when it comes out. I thought that Beta would be a much higher standard than that vid.

I'm not going to take part in the Beta myself, I want to play the real deal when it arrives. Halo 2 is still one of my favourite games, I'm hoping Halo 3 lives up to the hype.

calex71

that video doesn't make me regret trading in crackdown at all.

0ubliette

Looks like some bog standard deathmatch with red and blue mater chief clones running around the palce. I mean would it really kill bungie to add in some different player skins ffs?? There are ways of differentiating between friend and foe now without having to be f*cking red or blue, you dont get enemy troops in battlefield 2 or something wearing bright blue uniforms so you know who to shoot ffs. Welcome to 2007 Bungie, this isnt Quake 3 ffs.

GrumPy

0ubliette wrote:

Looks like some bog standard deathmatch with red and blue mater chief clones running around the palce. I mean would it really kill bungie to add in some different player skins ffs?? There are ways of differentiating between friend and foe now without having to be f*cking red or blue, you dont get enemy troops in battlefield 2 or something wearing bright blue uniforms so you know who to shoot ffs. Welcome to 2007 Bungie, this isnt Quake 3 ffs.

I loled

Ciaran500

0ubliette wrote:

Looks like some bog standard deathmatch with red and blue mater chief clones running around the palce. I mean would it really kill bungie to add in some different player skins ffs?? There are ways of differentiating between friend and foe now without having to be f*cking red or blue, you dont get enemy troops in battlefield 2 or something wearing bright blue uniforms so you know who to shoot ffs. Welcome to 2007 Bungie, this isnt Quake 3 ffs.

Its also not Battlefield 2

Creamy Goodness

i'm impressed at this video just as much as i'm impressed by the "great" music that accompanies it.

Anti

Wow,they really put the 360's power to use for halo 3. I actually though i was watching halo 2 for a while..... Pathetic attempt.

0ubliette

Ciaran500 wrote:

Its also not Battlefield 2

I wasnt saying its battlefield 2, im only stating that every single solitary fps out there is able to have two opposing sets of players that are easily identifiable as friend or foe without having to resort to having one team all in blue and the other red, and every single player in the same character skin. Christ, make one team covenant, the other spartans & marines, there doesnt have to be any distinct advantage between the two, but it would make for a better looking game at least than a bunch of red and blue master chief clones running around

NiSmO

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Ciaran500

Shrink any video down and fill it full of artifacts from compression and it will look like sh*t.



From: http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/78/gearsofware32006pic3gn3.jpg

Jip

The beta is just to test the game play and maps, and therefore they haven't made an effort on the graphics for something that's only going to be played for a short amount of time. According to Bungie themselves

..is that the longer we're spending resources taking care of the beta, the less time we're applying what we've learned from it to the final game

and regarding the rest of the maps

All are geometry complete, but they're being polished and tuned for graphics and gameplay ‘til the last minute

I'm sure you all know a beta is just used to test gameplay etc and is not intended to show off graphics, that's usually what demos are for.

MikeHoncho

Snore.

Julez

Jip wrote:

The beta is just to test the game play and maps, and therefore they haven't made an effort on the graphics for something that's only going to be played for a short amount of time. According to Bungie themselves and regarding the rest of the maps

I'm sure you all know a beta is just used to test gameplay etc and is not intended to show off graphics, that's usually what demos are for.

Tenner bets the final game will only look marginally better than the beta!

Retr0gamer

Jip wrote:

I'm sure you all know a beta is just used to test gameplay etc and is not intended to show off graphics, that's usually what demos are for.

Then they've a lot of work ahead of them. I never played a demo where the finished product was vastly improved visually over the demo. AS for video compression being the problem, how come I'm still impressed by youtube footage of lost odyssey and blue dragon but not impressed at all by this. Looks like GoW hasn't any rivals for a while.

Mitch Connor

Retr0gamer wrote:

Then they've a lot of work ahead of them. I never played a demo where the finished product was vastly improved visually over the demo. AS for video compression being the problem, how come I'm still impressed by youtube footage of lost odyssey and blue dragon but not impressed at all by this. Looks like GoW hasn't any rivals for a while.

cause that would be a demo, Halo 3 BETA is not a demo - it is a beta test possibly 6 months before the game is to come out.

They have, apparently, finished the actually single player game, and the multiplayer is almost done - just needing some polish to certain game play mechanics - so they have plenty of time to touch up the visuals. Halo 3 is going to look great, i have no doubt about that, but i also don't particularly care. I want a game that PLAYS well.

I really wish they had not bothered with the Beta - too many people moaning, long before the game is actually finished.

Retr0gamer

Tauren wrote:

cause that would be a demo, Halo 3 BETA is not a demo - it is a beta test possibly 6 months before the game is to come out.

They have, apparently, finished the actually single player game, and the multiplayer is almost done - just needing some polish to certain game play mechanics - so they have plenty of time to touch up the visuals. Halo 3 is going to look great, i have no doubt about that, but i also don't particularly care. I want a game that PLAYS well.

I really wish they had not bothered with the Beta - too many people moaning, long before the game is actually finished.

Beta, demo same difference and putting it in bold doesn't solidify your point. A beta is used to tweak certain things in the final game and therefore Halo 3 should look a hell of a lot better than this. The simple fact of the matter is that the game looks awful for such a big name game and Bungie have only until October to sort things out so don't be expecting any big changes.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Have to say I'm not impressed!

Jip

Retr0gamer wrote:

Beta, demo same difference and putting it in bold doesn't solidify your point. A beta is used to tweak certain things in the final game and therefore Halo 3 should look a hell of a lot better than this. The simple fact of the matter is that the game looks awful for such a big name game and Bungie have only until October to sort things out so don't be expecting any big changes.

I'm not a Halo fanboy but it's not the same difference, a demo is a demonstration of the finished product, a beta is used, as has been already said, to test certain aspects of gameplay. And the simple matter of fact is that this is not the game.

McDermotX

To be honest,I haven't been impressed at all with anything of Halo 3 yet..
Loved the first one, second one was a complete letdown (especially the single-player)..
Presentation-wise, the game doesn't look anything remotely near the top of the pile and I would be surprised if it changed significantly between now and its release.
But the one-thing that worries me about the title is the lack of real info and details regarding the single-player aspect (i.e. the MAIN GAME). It appears that Bungie may be far to focused on the multiplayer end as nearly all the leaks, details, videos, screenshots are all reflecting on the this end. This may be because of the upcoming beta, or not.
Never been grabbed by the multiplayer of Halo 2 (although I know lots were) and its looks like the beta is not going to do anything to advance the genre........so if Bungie just knock out some Halo 2.5 (whatever happened to that by the way??) with an average multiplayer game, they may well be facing a lot of flak (although I'm sure sales will be healthy).

Real progress in the FPS genre is being seen already on the 360 in previews with the likes of Bioshock, but certainly a lesser-hyped title such as Crysis on the PC is showing the way forward for the genre.....displaying real progressions both in graphics tech and gameplay mechanics. Everything seen about said title blows Halo 3 away in every possible way, obviously that kind of progression comes at a higher cost than a 360 with Halo 3, but in the end its about enjoying the game you're playing and both games could well be head to head on release.

But, we're looking into the future, and Bungie may well be hiding something up their sleeves with regards to the main game (possibly to prevent cloning), but such a hyped title will surely have to deliver something special and new and as we've frequently seen, that rarely happens..

Zapp Brannigan

Have to say Meh. But who knows it could be good!

Smellyirishman

Relax, it's a beta, they will be here in six months. Easy.

Personally, I will reserve judgment until I am playing the retail version (because I am away from my 360 for the beta ) but I wouldn't expect massive improvements at this stage.

Mitch Connor

McDermotX wrote:

Real progress in the FPS genre is being seen already on the 360 in previews with the likes of Bioshock, but certainly a lesser-hyped title such as Crysis on the PC is showing the way forward for the genre.....displaying real progressions both in graphics tech and gameplay mechanics. Everything seen about said title blows Halo 3 away in every possible way, obviously that kind of progression comes at a higher cost than a 360 with Halo 3, but in the end its about enjoying the game you're playing and both games could well be head to head on release.

But, we're looking into the future, and Bungie may well be hiding something up their sleeves with regards to the main game (possibly to prevent cloning), but such a hyped title will surely have to deliver something special and new and as we've frequently seen, that rarely happens..

erm....Crysis less hyped.... WHAT!? I know people who would kill their mothers to own this game now!

Mitch Connor

Smellyirishman wrote:

Relax, it's a beta, they will be here in six months. Easy.

Personally, I will reserve judgment until I am playing the retail version (because I am away from my 360 for the beta ) but I wouldn't expect massive improvements at this stage.

Didn't bungie say that the video that image was from was made using the game engine - or was that the one that was done by a seperate production company?

The Freeman

Tauren wrote:

erm....Crysis less hyped.... WHAT!? I know people who would kill their mothers to own this game now!

i'm one of those, can't wait for crysis and i really do hope bungie have something in the bag cos that video looks below par to be honest, i hope the in game graphic are as good as the last pic attached in this forum as regards to halo 2 with a shiny bubble effect and gun!



if this game isin't someething special it will be severly overshadowed by the big developers throughout the year.

GrumPy

Tauren wrote:

Didn't bungie say that the video that image was from was made using the game engine - or was that the one that was done by a seperate production company?

That screenshot in using the in game engine. NOT the trailer with the MC using the bubble shield, which is pre-rendered footage from a different studio.

Vyse

A couple new screens:

http://www.gamersreports.com/media/586/

RE*AC*TOR

I don't think that version of the video does it any justice. The one on gamevideos.com looks better, sharper at least, that one is quite muddy.

I think in general it looks good, nice use of shadows and lighting and high dynamic range.

http://gamevideos.com/video/id/10959

I'm not a big Halo fan though in general.

McDermotX

Tauren wrote:

erm....Crysis less hyped.... WHAT!? I know people who would kill their mothers to own this game now!

You and me both,
but speaking in general to the gaming world.........Crysis is certainly less anticipated and hyped..
Even since its early showings, Crysis is showing some amazing visuals and game possibilities, granted its going to need a monster system to fully appreciate it, but it is most certainly the one game I'm waiting to play

mayordenis

Retr0gamer wrote:

Looks like GoW hasn't any rivals for a while.

it has rivals and arguably superiors as it currently stands,
the game like so many before should not be judged on something leaked like this.
i would be hugely shocked if the finished article isn't a refined and imaculate piece of gaming, saying that it probably won't be as pretty as GoW but offline thats all GoW was, the pretty girl who your not arsed with 'cause she can't talk.

Mitch Connor

Vyse wrote:

A couple new screens:

http://www.gamersreports.com/media/586/

the pics of MC in the sunlight on that link, the first two - are more then likely Halo 2 PC shots - as the map that is being shown is Zanzibar, from Halo 2. The map is gettig redone as Last Resort on Halo 3, but the area of the map shown will look a lot different in Halo 3; so those (the first two anyway) pics are not halo 3 pics.

Scruff

interesting analysis of the video by Joystiq.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6T14RcH7CY

DarkJager

Who cares about the graphics as long as the storyline kicks ass and nicely wraps up one of the best videogame trilogys of all time?

Mitch Connor

Scruff wrote:

interesting analysis of the video by Joystiq.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6T14RcH7CY

the guy reviewing it is a bit of a tool, especially at the bit where the player chucks the grenade on to the gound then runs into the bubble. He starts going on about how the player wasn't paying attention to what he was doing and paniced.....the player was showing the bubble effects, both inside and outside.

Ciaran500

http://www.xboxyde.com/news_4272_en.html

Loads of new shots.