Bungie polished Halo 2 Vista, looks way better than Halo 2 Xbox

This story should have been posted way back in April 26, but it got lost somewhere in the World Wide Web. Luckily, a fellow blogger was kind enough to pull a backup from this blogger’s nether regions, so at least we had the original article on the topic.

Now we would have called it a screen comparison, but because that’s GameSpot’s take on the ish, we’ll let them take the flame lickin’. What they did show, however, was that for a title delayed three years to come out on the PC, Halo 2 Vista looks sharp, stunning, gorgeous and even better than the Xbox version (also playable on the 360). Check out the high quality screen caps just immediately below.

Even in low quality settings (shown below), the Vista version really stands out from the Xbox version. But because the Xbox screens were probably captured through TV and not LCD, the comparison is definitely not technologically credible enough to warrant a full techie comparison by our standards.

What GameSpot didn’t cover was the part where the geeks smirk and say, “That’s it?” We mean, come on, after three years in hiatus, Bungie only has this graphics stunt to show. So now it’s rendered in DirectX9, but wouldn’t it be better if it was on par with Vista’s DirectX 10? If you’re going to Vista anyway, it would be because of DirectX 10 native support in the kernel.

New exclusive multiplayer maps aren’t exactly a geek’s cup of tea, but perhaps the graphics alone had some Halo 2 fans drooling for another go with Halo 2. We’re not keeping our fingers crossed, however, if anything doesn’t go the way people were anticipating the game to be. It would sure be nice to see Cortana in much better detail before she turned over to the dark side…of the Flood, though.

Via GameSpot

This story should have been posted way back in April 26, but it got lost somewhere in the World Wide Web. Luckily, a fellow blogger was kind enough to pull a backup from this blogger’s nether regions, so at least we had the original article on the topic.

Now we would have called it a screen comparison, but because that’s GameSpot’s take on the ish, we’ll let them take the flame lickin’. What they did show, however, was that for a title delayed three years to come out on the PC, Halo 2 Vista looks sharp, stunning, gorgeous and even better than the Xbox version (also playable on the 360). Check out the high quality screen caps just immediately below.

Even in low quality settings (shown below), the Vista version really stands out from the Xbox version. But because the Xbox screens were probably captured through TV and not LCD, the comparison is definitely not technologically credible enough to warrant a full techie comparison by our standards.

What GameSpot didn’t cover was the part where the geeks smirk and say, “That’s it?” We mean, come on, after three years in hiatus, Bungie only has this graphics stunt to show. So now it’s rendered in DirectX9, but wouldn’t it be better if it was on par with Vista’s DirectX 10? If you’re going to Vista anyway, it would be because of DirectX 10 native support in the kernel.

New exclusive multiplayer maps aren’t exactly a geek’s cup of tea, but perhaps the graphics alone had some Halo 2 fans drooling for another go with Halo 2. We’re not keeping our fingers crossed, however, if anything doesn’t go the way people were anticipating the game to be. It would sure be nice to see Cortana in much better detail before she turned over to the dark side…of the Flood, though.

Via GameSpot