Halo 1/2 spruced up for 360 News
Xbox 360 Xbox News by Tom Bramwell
Bungie's confirmed suspicions that Halo and Halo 2 will be slightly shinier than the average Xbox game running on Xbox 360 - if indeed the average Xbox game does run on Xbox 360, although that's a separate issue.
In an update to mark Halo 2's one-year anniversary on November 9th, Bungie revealed that both games will work out of the box on 360 and that both will feature widescreen support, 720p (progressive-scan) support, and full-scene anti-aliasing to smooth over those jagged edges.
Says Bungie: "we didn't redo any of the old textures or geometry - this is simply the game you already own, running at a higher resolution. The results are not miraculous, but for owners of HDTVs (or VGA monitors with the appropriate cable) they are sweet."
Bungie also ran some comparison shots of the improvements, which you can find lower down the update.
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The pods come with a great big board that plugs into it, which I think is the 'brains' of the system, so to be honest I'm not even sure if it reads normal games. My local Game is hopefully getting one today or tomorrow, and my girlfriend works there and they don't mind me hanging around instore after they've locked up while they cash up, which should give me about 45 minutes alone with it, so I'll give it a go if they don't mind.
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My expectations for backward compatibility and launch titles are now quite low I have to say. I will be buying an 360 for sure, but I will wait until the first reviews are in on the launch titles first, and base my decision for buying earlier or later on those.
I was watching Gamer.tv last night and their footage of Call Of Duty 2 looked like it could have been pulled from the current Xbox. Not especially impressive....... |
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I see, Fluffy, thanks for clearing that up. :)
I'd sort of hoped that what caused the pop up was a bottleneck in the RAM, and that more RAM would sort the problem by itself. Somehow I doubt the drive speed increase is significant enough to rid the game of the pop up problem. It's really a shame because the game is close to perfect without it. As perfect as conservative, conventional sequels get of course. :) |
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@Fluffy: You are a homicidal maniac and deserve to be imprisoned. Since when shooting stuff became cool? It is such a sick concept, and the gaming industry, along with sickos like you, is a partner in crime for promoting it.
I play Half Life 2 with a mod that allows me to blow flowers at the Combine soldiers and they sleep due to the scent. That's more like it!!!! |
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"I was watching Gamer.tv last night and their footage of Call Of Duty 2 looked like it could have been pulled from the current Xbox. Not especially impressive......."
Maybe they were showing Call of Duty 2: Big Red One because I played Call of Duty 2 on a 360 pod and it looks a lot better than any Xbox shooter. |
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What bothers me with all this backwards compatible stuff is that some people are selling the damn thing on the basis that it is! HMV, on their pre-order packs, are saying that it works with all your existing Xbox games. Are they allowed to do this, given that the official line is that it won't be 100%?
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I didn't think they compiled the game again for the 360. It looks to me like the emulator can render the game in a higher res with optional AA, that's all.
Well, they actually said that this is what we're going too see if we pop in our original copies of Halo 1 and 2. I don't understand why anyone would consider it to only be a feature of recompiled versions. ...unless of course they haven't read the actual Bungie article that this news post deals with. Shocking :-) |
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I'm missing something here: how is the new code supplied? Do you have to buy a disc (like anyone's going to pay for an old game - hardly backwards compatible)? Or download it from the net (those without boredband can whistle). How's it work?
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