Bungie Confirms Halo and Halo 2 360 Improvements – First Screens

but does it still have that damn pop in?
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So the XBox360 ups the resolution and smooths the textures of XBox games just like the PS2 does with PS1 games?

Do we need a huge announcement from Bungie to say that?

well considering that bleem on a dreamcast made ps1 games look better than a ps2 i suppose its more a question of what sort of added quality we will be gettign from this... and since peopel are and will still be playign halo for some time its kinda of a big deal... the addition of online play to console games has extended the life of some games beyond what they woudl normaly have so backwards compatibility is probably actually more relevant this generation than any previous. imagine at the end of the next generation when people are playing MMO's and the next generation comes out... they will care even more.

now the question remains... if i go stick a halo2 disk in one of those kiosk 360's.... will it play?
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I thought the PS2 did nothing to the old PS1 games?? The PS2 contains the original PS1's CPU, so just runs all the code on the chip... so you get an exact copy of the original game or are you talking about the new slim line? Does that do something differently?

I think the benchmarks are 720p and full scene anti-aliasing for BC Xbox software

Yes, that's very nice news. Sometimes I feel Halo series is a bit of a one trick pony that MS have. Bungie are now stuck in the rut of said series when their output used to make games like Myth series. After Halo 3 they should give the series a break.

In truth MS need more variety in their games otherwise in that respect they will never be able to match Sony or Nintendo. We all know if everyone bailed to PS3, MS software would be very limited so I'd like to see MS build and not rely on just Halo series (cause that's how it feels).

I'm looking to get a 360, but while Halo series is good and sweet to play online I need to know that there's more than that coming from MS, themselves. I need to know that all the online competition aren't gonna camp in Halo series fort (as it happened with Xbox), pitching their captured flag, while other online 360 games loose out because of Halo's popularity.

Though it's nothing to do with Bungie, something needs to be done to encourage play in other online games too. I just hope MS deal on this front.

I guess so long as 360 games have offline play, that's the saving grace that stop them ending up like many online PC games (a often told tale of here today, gone tomorrow, when servers don't get enough service).

Good luck to Bungie, I just pray for the day they make something else but Halo again. Will that day come soon I wonder?

You could turn on texture smoothing and fast CD access.

The texture smoothing, AFAICR, upped the res and got rid of texture nastiness. This was due to the fact that although the PS2 had an embedded PS1 CPU, it still used the PS2 GPU to render the graphics.

Unfortunately, I can't find any piccies to substantiate my claims.

[Edit] Ah HA! Yes I can find piccies.

[Edit2] Looking at those pics again, it doesn't seem like the resolution is upped at all, just appears to due to better anti-aliasing.

just cause i mentioned it before...

PS1

Dreamcast

just cause i liek to here myself talk...
ps1

ps2


this is the sort of thing that makes me beligerant when i think about the ps2... the initial lack of anti-aliasing is a bitch!

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