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[Sai]

Looks great.

 

[MrAngryFace]

JUST GIMME THE FUCKING GAME ALREADY!

 

[Sai]

:lol I know how you feel, MAF.

Lil' over a month to go now. Sit tight.

 

[olimario]

Very nice. The second one makes it look like a war game set in the future and less like Halo. How cool.

 

[Joe]

awesome! the sniper is hot!

what map is that? waterworks or something completely new?

 

[Docpan]

I'm sick of the screenshots.

Game PLZ, kthxbye.

 

[Sinatar]

Whoa, you can see through the scope without zooming in. Neat touch.

 

[Sai]

For those of you curious about that effect:

Joe Staten is very pleased with a new technique he's incorporating into cinemas for the game. Thanks to some code-wizardry, he's able to render a camera-image to a texture,. In this case, it was a view of an epic conflict through a window of a human ship. Joe says the engineers claim the technique can be applied to any surface, and one programmer told him he could do it on a biped. So, like, we could display an entire cinematic on a Grunt's eyeball!

Anyway, the point is that instead of flat-looking video outside the window, or on a video screen, we'll be able to show the actual, alternate 3D scene.

What was the dramatic scene in question? Well, Parsons calls it a pant-filler, I personally would call it a diaper-bulger..

Hehe, that's from the April 16th Bungie Update. I immediately thought of that when I saw the Sniper Rifle in that screenie.

[EDIT] - Actually, that might not be the same thing since he's talking about pre-recorded video onto a texture... Oh well.

 

[The Faceless Master]

wow, another actual first person shot... who the hell let that one slip by?

 

[Joe]

so is this a new map or the top of waterworks?

 

[Sai]

I'm not certain, but I think this is Burial Mounds.

 

[Joe]

whatever it is it looks really cool. i remember reading something about the weather in the game that they were working on. did they ever mention that they would use weather in multiplayer matches? because in that second shot it looks like it might down pour and that would be cool as hell.

 

[Sai]

Ah, it's not Burial Mounds. Guy who's played the beta just said so.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

sweet

 

[GhaleonEB]

Love how the Elite is carrying the Oddball (aka the skull) - looks like he's really sprinting with it.

 

[GhaleonEB]

For those of you curious about that effect:



Hehe, that's from the April 16th Bungie Update. I immediately thought of that when I saw the Sniper Rifle in that screenie.

[EDIT] - Actually, that might not be the same thing since he's talking about pre-recorded video onto a texture... Oh well.

No, I think that is what he's talking about. He's talking about taking a scene and rendering it onto a texture - like a TV screen or monitor. Just like the view scope - it's rendering the scene onto the back of the rifle.

Either way, it looks simply amazing.

 

[drohne]

gorgeous. really atmospheric. love the sky. but i'm totally sick of halo 2 screenshots and elliptical halo 2 development updates and hysterical halo 2 impressions. how long has it been since this game was unveiled? i'm with maf. i just want the fucking game at this point.

 

[XboxGamers]

WOW!

 

[u_neek]

bad art..

 

[Sai]

You're bad art.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Good art!

 

[Ghost]

picture in picture...cool im still waiting for my tv to do that.

 

[DopeyFish]

i wonder how single player is gonna look when they keep impressing me with multiplayer screens

 

[shpankey]

Fucking amazing art!

Whoa, you can see through the scope without zooming in. Neat touch.

Now that they've shown that, expect it to be stolen by at least 10 FPS, as publishers rush back to devs and demand they add it in their games.

 

[epmode]

gorgeous. really atmospheric. love the sky. but i'm totally sick of halo 2 screenshots and elliptical halo 2 development updates and hysterical halo 2 impressions. how long has it been since this game was unveiled? i'm with maf. i just want the fucking game at this point.

i feel the same way about half-life 2. at least this game has a concrete release date and no pending lawsuits.

 

[Sander]

The scope view isn't new, FarCry has it:

 

[teepo]

that farcry screen really made halo2 look ugly now!

 

[Bluemercury]

JUST GIMME THE FUCKING GAME ALREADY!

wait for the PS2 version.

 

[siamesedreamer]

A Halo 2 screenshot not set on Zanzibar?

Surely you jest.

 

[SantaC]

Now that they've shown that, expect it to be stolen by at least 10 FPS, as publishers rush back to devs and demand they add it in their games.

CS:source has it!

 

[Wario64]

But Halo invents everything. Vehicles and sniper rifle scopes!

 

[Bluemercury]

HL2 will destroy H2.......i think in preety much all areas....

 

[DopeyFish]

HL2 will destroy H2.......i think in preety much all areas....

except for....

fun
story
multi-player
co-op
vehicle implementation
gun balance
balancing in general
sound

hrm

*scratches head*

 

[Bluemercury]

except for....

fun
story
multi-player
co-op
vehicle implementation
gun balance
balancing in general
sound

hrm

*scratches head*

You're kidding right?

HL2 will pretty much own is those areas, plus this one you can dream about having it in H2,
MODS.......

 

[SantaC]

the mods will indeed be a big part of hl2

 

[DSN2K]

2nd shot looks like Killzone.

 

[teepo]

except for....

fun
story
multi-player
co-op
vehicle implementation
gun balance
balancing in general
sound

hrm

*scratches head*

wtf are you smoking?

and just to let you know, halflife2 is very very vechile heavy. most will be surprised how much time they'll spend in them.

 

[Mr. Lemming]

At least Halo 2 has a solid release date.

 

[Bluemercury]

wtf are you smoking?

and just to let you know, halflife2 is very very vechile heavy. most will be surprised how much time they'll spend in them.

Exactly, for some reason there are already two Roadwarrior based mods.....

 

[GhaleonEB]

except for....

fun
story
multi-player
co-op
vehicle implementation
gun balance
balancing in general
sound

hrm

*scratches head*

You're kidding right?

HL2 will pretty much own is those areas, plus this one you can dream about having it in H2,
MODS.......

STOP IT

 

[Sander]

CS:source has it!

Aha! I knew I had seen it somewhere else as well but I couldn't remember

 

[DSN2K]

except for....

fun
story
multi-player
co-op
vehicle implementation
gun balance
balancing in general
sound

hrm

*scratches head*

:lol:lol:lol

 

[shpankey]

stop polarizing them... they will both surely kick ass. please try to keep yourself from making this into a pissing match about opinions on two games that neither are even out yet, yet somehow you all *KNOW* for a fact which is sooo much better in all these areas.

just stfu already, none of you know shit because none of you have played both games to their full extent, so none of you really fucking know dick. and both games will probably kick ass in their own ways anyhow. which one will be better in any regard will be entirely subjective anyhow.

 

[Bluemercury]

Look i mostly prefer console gaming to pc gaming, but anyone who thinks halo 2 will be bigger than HL2 is delusional......

 

[Sai]

* Sai sighs...

My poor thread...

It's all your fault, Bluemercury. Damn you.

 

[Bluemercury]

But Halo invents everything. Vehicles and sniper rifle scopes!

No, he did......

 

[Go Go Ackman!]

OMFG

 

[tedtropy]

Bungie vs. Valve EX Super Turbo Deluxe II Hyper-First Person Edition

 

[Ramirez]

Looks sweet,and who gives a fuck about HL2 talk in a Halo 2 thread -_-

 

[GhaleonEB]

Looks sweet,and who gives a fuck about HL2 talk in a Halo 2 thread -_-

Amen.