No, the only ones that survive Reach are the ones the Chief rescues which are the 3/4 I mentioned before from the end of First Strike.

She's stuck on Zack Island. ;)

Well it could open up an interesting co-op campaign if they do implemement the other suriviving spartans.

Bungie Weekly update is up:

http://bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=weeklyup...

What's the polygon count on the characters and environments in comparison to Halo 2?

Not as high as it looks. A lot of detail is achieved using a combination of lighting, textures, normals and bump-maps. We're saving our polygon budget for other things…



Uh oh for any GOTY contendors:

"The sand, dust, smoke and other effects are all from the game engine. They will be used in the game. The landscape you saw is real geometry - the mountains and city in the distance are not a skybox - they are actual geometry that you can go to. Our cut scenes and our gameplay will be very comparable. Also, CJ Cowan, our director of cinematics, says that the texture "pop" seen in Halo 2's cinematics has already gone bye-bye for Halo 3."




"Work on Halo 3 began immediately after Halo 2."


"The geometry is basically the real geometry you're flying, walking or running to, although LOD (Level Of Detail) saves the programmers (in this case us) RAM and processing horsepower by simplifying what's actually being drawn at distance. The trick is to simplify things enough so you get that saving, but without turning a once-recognizable object into a dumb triangle"



On what they showed to the press:

"We flew them around the environment, flew out over the Forerunner structure, did a close-up of the Chief to show the realtime reflection of the visor (you could see the ammo counter running down in his faceplate) and showed off the unified lighting model we're using - particularly how other surfaces, such as sand, reflect light back up onto his armor. Frame rate was silky smooth, but to be fair, that was basically an empty environment with the Chief in it. However, we're obviously trying to make our finished game silky smooth too. I don't know how they reacted, but one journalist asked me if I had gotten any death threats."

Amazing man... all of that stuff was actually in there as expected.


Who wont buy a 360 when this game comes out? Seriously it will look gorgeous and they aren't even using that much geometry.... haha amazing ;)

Kinda a kick in the face for people moaning about the HDD not being standard.

With potential 10 mile multiplayer maps HDD cache = dead

Depends how effectively they can stream from the disc..

Apparently it isn't that much of an issue if they can pull off what they are saying they can ;)

From what I'm seeing jolli alot of developers are doing it. I mean saints row is doing it.... too human (probably not best example right now :P) is doing it... crackdown is doing it... halo.... carmack and the guys working on return to castle wolfenstein are doing it.... Something just tells me its either the developers are just really confident they can pull it off or its one of the 360's strengths.

I'm sure even GTA will do it.

LOL optimus i wasn't saying it was a problem, i was replying to RAZurrection.

Also i think that the majority of people using the multiplayer maps or live customers will be premium and HDD customers anyways so they could add the feature to allow for HDD caching.

True ;) Seriously man i enjoyed playing against ya in doa 4 the other day sometime tomorrow well later on today since its already 1AM for me I'll come on xbox live to play some more doa 4 against ya it was really fun :P

Though being fair, in Halo 2 there's no cacheing in multiplayer maps (no mid level loads as in the single player) , it's all loaded during the matchmaking part

That's interesting Deftangel about the HDD, I suppose it's easier for devs to make a game to take advantage of the HDD and make adjustments for non-HDD 360's than vice versa. I s that the case?

I suppose we can hope that because the PS3 now has a HDD a lot more multiplatform games would take advantage

"Well it could open up an interesting co-op campaign if they do implemement the other suriviving spartans."
You wouldnt need other spartans to be alive for 4 player co-op. You already get 2 player co-op and there is only one spartan.......or is there........

You'd better hurry up cause i'm only renting it and it's going back on monday.. Might get Kameo next i think :P

Oh yea.. i should do that too.

Yea seriously I like to hear my victims squirm as I torture them :P

No, not Linda. It's Kelly.

The Spartans left are: John, Kelly, Linda, Fred and Will.

Yep, the perfect blend of the battle rifles accuracy and the assault rifles rate of fire. The noobs weapon of choice, and mine:)

is there any video footage of the tech demo?