OK when i saw this my mouth dropped i mean halo3 is a year out still, and we’re almost 100% sure it’s going to be awesome but after reading the remarks from teamxbox that they got from one of the team’s blogs over at Bungie, especially in regard to the textures i was very interested indeed. Because well the thing is textures make the game and i hate to say it too many studios reuse old textures or only replace a few of them and we end up with these sour spots in games with flat textures every so often so the fact that there “placeholders” are already looking great apparently It would appear that come 2007 the game should look amazing. And now that we know multiplayer is already being worked on a full year in advance and being played daily the fact is Bungie is pulling out all stops on this and is gonna make sure that Halo3 comes with a huge bang!
“In the latest Bungie Weekly Update, Frank O’Connor has revealed that they
are already testing the multiplayer mode of Halo 3. Here is the excerpt:
Paul Bertone, one of our lead designers, let us play something that
blew our minds. That was single player, and from a mission very early in the
game. And one that takes place before the events seen in the E3 trailer, but
Lars, one of the new(er) multiplayer designers, has a regular multiplayer test
in session now – that happens every day – and with surprisingly polished-looking
graphics, although I’m told a lot of the textures and decorator objects are just
placeholder at the moment. Could have fooled me. The multiplayer test lab is still packed full of
old-school 4:3 480i NTSC TV sets, which tells you two things. One is that
we’re making sure this game looks awesome on non HD sets, and two, that there is
always a crazy rush to get to the sets that are HD during those
sessions.”, Team Xbox
Source: TeamXbox
