Bungie: Halo Reach bending the Xbox 360 to its limits
With Halo: Reach on the horizon this year, Bungie has been talking up the game quite a bit. According to some recent comments made by the developers, Reach will push the Xbox 360 to its limits.
In an interview with Edge Magazine [via Joystiq], Bungie revealed that unlike ODST, Halo: Reach will be running on a new engine that is “bending the Xbox 360 as far as it’ll bend.†The previous title, ODST ran on the old Halo 3 engine which is already over three years old. With the new engine, the graphics, AI and physics have been dramatically improved.
Creative director of Bungie, Marcus Lehto stated, “We are… taking every advantage of everything on the CPU and GPU, and every bit of memory in order to produce the look of Reach beyond anything of Halo 3.†It’s good to see that Bungie has decided to push the limits of the Xbox 360 and not just resting on its laurels. Lehto attributes the developers technical prowess to the years spent developing on the Xbox 360.
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January 23rd, 2010
Better late than never Mike, huh?
January 23rd, 2010
This is good that they are improving the graphics on Halo Reach. The graphics need to be re-done.
January 23rd, 2010
i thought viva pinata put the 360 to its limits ?
January 23rd, 2010
Halo Reach looks pretty good. While these shots are in engine they don’t appear to be in-game. I’d like to see more in-game.
January 23rd, 2010
Cutscenes LMFAO.
Gears of War already did that LoL. Microsoft is trying to be like Sony with their dated wannabe shit how laughable and sad. Halo will never look better then Gears of War 2 did.
Those are not even gameplay pics LoL. Microsoft fails again well Bungie.
January 23rd, 2010
Go suck Sony’s teats and do your PR’ing elsewhere Ivan.
You’re the biggest (epic) “fail” around here.
You said you find XBL confusing and you lied about having a 500gb SSD in June 2009.
January 23rd, 2010
I’m sorry Happy but Ivan is technically right. Although I disagree with his discourteous approach, displaying mere cut scenes to deceive the general public is just WRONG. And I mean….WRROOOOOONG
January 23rd, 2010
TFoS
I’m not disagreeing that cut scenes can be misleading, but let’s be honest, intially cut scenes are always (or almost always) the first look anyone gives of a new game.
(if for no other obvious reason that they are usually the first bits of the game completed in a state fit to show others)
Ivan as always is just doing his one-eyed Pbot BS.
January 23rd, 2010
the trailer was O.K.
January 23rd, 2010
Cut scene Microsoft is trying to get close to PS3 games in graphics with their dated low shit wannabe console. Bungie has already stated that they tired of making this fucking crappy hyped up up mess. Finally this is the last Halo that Bungie is making this shit is worst then Madden.
Killzone 2 still is the FPS console game with the best graphics. Xbox 360 limits are already overdue since Gears of War 2.
January 24th, 2010
Will this use 100% of the 360′s juice?
If so, I can’t wait too see. That isn’t a snide little jab either: I get excited every time a piece of hardware gets pushed to its limits. I still have my doubts, though. Since when was Bungie focused on graphics so much?
January 25th, 2010
Saber_HAHAha:
Xbox has been beyond is limits already in Gears of War 2. this might just be a tiny maybe bit better. Plus all this shot not gameplay. Hopefully they will as good as Gears of War 2 one the best graphically game on Xbox 360 a little behind Bioshock.
January 25th, 2010
“Xbox has been beyond is limits already in Gears of War 2. this might just be a tiny maybe bit better”
January 25th, 2010
Thanks for re-posting my facts.
January 25th, 2010
lol
January 25th, 2010
““Xbox has been beyond is limits already in Gears of War 2. this might just be a tiny maybe bit better”
LMAO!! funniest comment of the day..
go give ‘em 110%, sport…lmao..
January 25th, 2010
“this might just be a tiny maybe bit betterâ€
Like Uncharted 2 was just a “tiny bit” better than Uncharted 1.
January 26th, 2010
CarlB:
You wish is just a little bit.
January 26th, 2010
Uncharted 2 look way better than Uncharted 1.
January 26th, 2010
Exactly.
February 24th, 2010
Hey Ivan, Quite being a Sony fanboy and try something new you pompous jerk. I dont care how a game looks as long as the gameplay is FUN. And I happen to think that Sony does have alot to offer in terms of fun games, but their ps3 doesnt have backwards compatibilty, and guess what? Xbox 360 does.
suck it.