New Halo 3 screen goodness

360 News | Taken from public beta, and looking swish.

With just four days to go until the Halo 3 public beta finally kicks into gear, Bungie has lavished nine new screens of the Xbox 360 shooter on our eager retinas. All of the shots were taken straight from the beta, and feature the three maps that will be available to players from early next week: Valhalla, Snowbound, and High Ground.

Highlights include a glimpse of the new UNSC Missile Pod being toted around by a Spartan, and the sight of two M274 ULATV Mongooses zipping into a skirmish. Nice.

As usual, hit the Media Panel for the screens.

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23 Comments

R3ND3R3D

4 years ago

The ninth picture looked awesome.

It actually looks real :O

LeonJ

4 years ago

I dunno, these pics look like Halo 2 on PC. I'm seriously worried about the quality of the graphics.

teashades

4 years ago

I have never "got" halo. I can not for the life of me understand why people love it so much!! I mean, I don't think they are bad games, just, not that great either. The first two looked really awsome, but I got really bored, really quickly. I just don't see anything amazing about them. everything just seemed so standard. I realise there were things about them that were really origonal, but I never understood why people loved them. I played halo for a few days when I first got it, and got bored. Same with halo 2, then i traded it in.

Jellyfish

4 years ago

Not every game is for everybody; me for one can't stand Final Fantasy, Mario (platformer) and Zelda games.

As difficult as it is I've managed to most screenshots and all the videos about Halo 3 so I'm going to enjoy Tuesday(Monday)'s Beta launch.

Crestfallen

4 years ago

They may be tech heads over at Bungie, but I hope their artistic skills have improved since H1/2.

The grey, monotonous, uninspired headache inducing design (it did have some parts were good) in their previous games very nearly stopped me from finishing them.

And yeah, the Halo series as a FPS is average but is probably the best console FPS series out there (?).

InfernalEternal

4 years ago

These screenshots have some terrible compression, and look at the artifact-ing.

teashades

4 years ago

crestfallen wrote

I still prefer playing perfect dark on n64 to the halo games. But I much preferred XIII to most of the shooting games last gen. I thought that game was quite underrated and fun to play. To be honest, I mean, apart from the monotony of halo, I can't put my finger on exactly why I don't like it, rather, I can't figure out a reason why I should like it.....

poweroffarts

4 years ago

Looks very similar to Halo 2 with slight polished graphics, what happend to the in-game graphics in halo 3 trailer?

Frozencry

4 years ago

Looks like Halo 2.1. Still, I'm anticipating the beta, should be pretty decent.

Kaboth

4 years ago

[quote=teashades]I have never "got" halo. I can not for the life of me understand why people love it so much!! I mean, I don't think they are bad games, just, not that great either.[/quote]

Its a mystery to me as well. I've got Halo, both it and Halo 2 made some important innovations to fps but as an actual game they seem pretty repetitive to me. I just don't get why people go so ga ga over the Halo universe either.

[quote=teashades]I still prefer playing perfect dark on n64 to the halo games. [/quote]

Me too. I've beat Halo once on easy and I'll probably never play it again. But Perfect Dark I pick up over and over again. I still haven't finished perfect agent difficulty. Forget that Perfect Dark 0 crap though.

[quote=crestfallen]The grey, monotonous, uninspired headache inducing design (it did have some parts were good) in their previous games very nearly stopped me from finishing them. [/quote]
The first time I played a Halo game (Halo 2) I was struck by how boring the level design was. It reminded me of Star Wars with all those bland grey walls.

Back on topic. I think these graphics look quite nice retaining the style of the earlier Halo games. Not that I'm overly fond of their style.

the doag

4 years ago

I personally think that the screen shots loom average. There is no doubt the finished product will be slick, but for now the graphics look sub-par.

arbok

4 years ago

Halo 3 kind of looks ordinary compared to Gears of War. I expect more from a first party game which is supposed to be the flagship title.

I'll wait until I see the single player before I completely write the graphics off.

I'm sure it will be fun regardless.

arbok

4 years ago

teashades wrote

Did you play Halo multiplayer with some mates.

Some of the finest multiplayer ever.

Awesome.

teashades

4 years ago

^^ I did, and I thought it was quite normal. As far as console multilayer goes, again, perfect dark on n64 i had more fun with, and in fact still play, and XIII i played heaps as well, that was fun. But when i play fps multiplayer I usually play the battlefield games on PC. Never liked halo Multiplayer. On the first one I don't think you could even have bots... can't remember though...... but boring.....

Marka

4 years ago

Looks meh compared to other 360 Games.

arbok

4 years ago

teashades wrote

I just played halo multiplayer with some friends this weekend.

One of them said exactly the same thing that he had more fun with perfect dark.

Chris-Leigh

4 years ago

teashades wrote

Ah yes, but did you try it as part of a LAN set-up with 8 or more players?

If you did, fair enough, but that's where the real longevity lay IMO.

Jim Dash

4 years ago

What you have to realise is that at the moment, it is a beta. The graphics are only placeholder. They still have another 6 months of development left.

This is Bungie we're talking about, under the close eye of Microsoft, do you really think the final product would look worse than Gears of War.

It's a beta, people. They're not worried about the graphics, they're focused on gameplay with this.

Karai Pantsu

4 years ago

Ah, now... The Beta. Seeing as it'll hit in the next few days, who here will be taking part and who's going to be hosting the PALGN games?

Crestfallen

4 years ago

It you pay attention the graphics really are good. Very detailed.

Its just that the art design doesn't allow the quality of graphics to shine.

Passa

4 years ago

crestfallen wrote

It you pay attention the graphics really are good. Very detailed.

Its just that the art design doesn't allow the quality of graphics to shine.

Agreed. The changes are very slight compared to Halo: CE to Halo 2. The MJOLNIR battle armour in Halo: CE for example was extremely different to the armour in Halo 2.

I still have an original Xbox atm (rather than a 360) and have never had Live, but both Halo games were extremely memorable experiences for me. 4 player split-screen multiplayer was fun, but I enjoy the immersive qualities of the story.

However, I'm putting off getting a 360 until the release date for Halo 3 is announced (at which point I will be pre-ordering the Legendary edition). Really, its the only game I _have_ to get on the 360 (and then FFXIII is exclusive on the PS3.. tis not fair for a loveallgames gamer..)

Regardless, Halo has always been a slightly overrated series (in terms of multiplayer anyway imho). Halo: CE was great, but it seems Bungie just have to rename something well known (deathmatch or jumppads) to something else and suddenly they are innovative geniuses (slayer and man-cannons). A continuation of the singleplayer story will be the selling point for me, and I'll probably fork out for Live just to join in the carnage with my friends (peer pressure

) otherwise I really wouldn't bother..

Anyway.. enough of a rant

Jellyfish

4 years ago

You need to pre-order the Legendary Edition nowish or you won't be getting one. My local EB gave me a call on Friday telling me you have to have $50 deposit on it or you'll be missing out (I assume because there are lots of pre-orders for it).

Passa

4 years ago

nikack wrote

Ahh.. yeah my friend came to school the other day waving around an EB receipt for his Halo 3 Legendary preorder

.. I'm probably going to pre-order it in 2-3 weeks, should be OK (worse comes to worse I'll settle for the Collectors edition).

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