seems common amongst a lot of 360 games tbh. so no big deal really. but considering halo 3 isnt the most staggering looking game its kinda weird. you'd expect this sort of compromise with games that have certain things going on, real time dynamic lighting etc. but halo doesnt do any of this.

i think halo looks great, but not as good as it maybe should, from the lower then HD resolution, to the jaggy edges. for a game made exclusively for the 360 which is funded by microsoft themselves, you'd think it'd be the next benchmark in graphical fidelity for the 360 (like halo 2 was for the original xbox), but its not. it seems they've tried to use their last gen development methods on a next gen system, which just hasnt and doesnt work. a lot about halo screams poor design choice. they had repetative areas and backtracking in the previous games which where the games main faults, and they are still present in halo 3. the last part of the last level is just plain badly designed, its like they ran out of ideas and just threw a long boring section at the end built up of a lot of flat identical sections?!? why would anyone consider that a good idea?? i mean, yeah, it was reminiscent of the end level of halo CE, but thats a 6 year old game, i expected it to look better.

halo 3 has done what it set out to do tho, it finished that story arch and did it in a perfectly competant way. it isnt amazing visually...but i dont think that was ever bungies goal...i personally think it should have looked at least twice as good tho.

end of the day i think bungie knew most of their time HAD to be spent on their most long lasting feature, multiplayer. and rightly so, halo 2 dominated the online community right up untill halo 3. but every significant addition to halo 3 whether it be vehicles, weapons, usable items, modes, the replay feature etc where obviously added for multiplayer...and simply used in single player for consistancy.

halo for me has become the opposite of what it once was...where halo CE was a single player game with a tacked on yet competant multiplayer...halo now is basically a multiplayer game with a tacked on yet competant compaign. which for someone like me, who likes a good, deep, single player, is a shame.

what i hope will come from the next halo game is something new. in terms of story, weapons, characters, enemies, music etc. and i really do hope that will be the case. theres only so many times you can hear the "a walk in the woods" CE tune remixed for each game before it gets a little old. and thats coming from an owner and fan of the halo music.

for me now tho, im just curious as to what bungie have planned next. will they veer away from halo...maybe do something less "safe"...or will thay dare take halo in a completely new direction. who knows. making more halo games could potentially kill the series tho, and potentially kill them as a company, do they really want to be "the halo guys" or the rest of the companies life? maybe a new ip is needed eh guys? there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

man, that was a pretty long rant?!? sorry.

Well, i for one find it deeply shocking that the XBOX 360 HIGH Definition gaming system's flagship title is not able to provide, like, HIGH DEFINITION!
Oh, but it does high dynamic range! goes Bungie. Damn, which game doesn't these days??? And they through this "we render two frames". uh? Why not just calculate the color (light) depth in 16, 24 or 32 bit? I thought that's how they did it for the high dynamic light?
Anyway, call me a graphic whore but i think they under delivered technically (well, graphics wise. impressive technical stuff on the other hand, like the film sharing thing). The light on the outdoor environments does look very good, but indoors is dead flat to say the least.

edit:
you can boulet this, its off topic, its just in reply to anm8rjp

Mt_...what ever your name is, we know you dont like it, we know you unhappy, please give it a fucking break.

sorry boulet this, i am taking it to whisper.

and manthatyoufear (nice name by the way), we all know you love it, so why don't you go and cuddle with your masterchief action figure and give people who can spot negatives points a break?

Although wrong thread, anm8rjp asked for opinions, so i decided to give mine. Will you ever stop your crusade trying to silence people who are not 100% happy?

sorry guys for the off-topicness. boulet time please.