"Before and After" - Halo: Reach Real-Time Visual Effects

[Brawldud]

Bungie has been using real-time rendering since the original Halo in 2001. That said, with Halo Reach it looks better, brighter, and smoother. Kudos to Bungie for their meticulous and amazing leaps in technological and creative innovation. Even on fixed and, by today's standards, relatively mediocre hardware, Bungie found a way to make the game look detailed and unique, instead of simply re-using their old graphics engine.

Also, Halo: Reach added a lot of sorely needed facial detail.

[RETSZTIRF]

halo still a good lookin game

[WolfGameWalkthroughs]

Guys can you tell me how to go into Theater Mode during a cutscene like at 1:34?

[that1dude0092]

@WolfGameWalkthroughs

your gonna need a computer to that

first delete system 32.....

lol jk you can't only developers can do that

you probably need a cheat to do it (sadly there is no cheat)

if they released halo reach for PC there would be a mode called "Dev_mode"

just like the Halo 1 PC version did

[cheeseface519]

Betrays marine at start, awarded for blood spatter.

[HALOMASTER3500]

go bungie

[cachitosonic]

ami me interesan muchos los juegos de videos qe asen hasta ahora son mis faboritos

[halo31004]

i always thought halo reaches graphics were beautiful, it looks amazing

[ROYALx7xSINS]

Why does the pillar of autumn look like cortanas dildo

[n2xroyle]

Halo graphics are so nice to look at and the sky box is just incredible, In my opinion far better than that of CoD and Battlefield 3, This game is just in its own league both graphically and gameplay wise :D

[randomstuffz2]

dammit i cant wait for Halo 4!!!

[halo97855]

ppff and people say that halo has bad graphigs

[TheMinecraftGuy1000]

@HaloReachMcfarlane you can, IF YOU BELIEVE!!!!!!!?!!

[eliteslaya13]

Impressive. Most impressive.

[saiyanlegends670]

Just imagine everyone since Reach look this good what should we expect from Halo 4

[gr8gabe314]

@saiyanlegends670 It wont be the same because its a new company, Im not saying it wont be spectacular but it wont be the leaps and bounds like ODST to REACH

[xenonumber5]

bungie why why did you give 343 the rights to reach why there ruining it bungie please come back dont let 343 take away reticule bloom and make the magnum overpowered and make melees go through shields and headshots pop shields faster 343 is a good company but they shouldn't have the rights to reach dont let 343 ruin this great game please

[yourmom654321]

the engine that bungie made is definitely impressive, it's just that the 360 could barely handle it. I mean what other engine could you have dozens of highly detailed objects/environments, with dozens of actual 3-D explosions occurring in a gigantic space, while having 20-40 intelligent AI operating independently? Not to mention the skyboxes aren't simply paintings.

[milontua]

@yourmom654321 Other then the Reach engine, i cant possibly say theres any other engine out there that could do all that and stay compltly together. Unreal engine at most could only handle about 9 , A.i on screen at most. Hell the skyim engine , can only handle about 6 or 7 and if all enimies are coming at you , the framerate drops immensly. Frost bite engine can do alot as well i think it has less A.I then halo though.

[gr8gabe314]

@milontua Frostbite in my opinion blew the Engine by Bungie out of the water graphic wise and the amount of AI is as much if not a few 5 or 6 more. The thing about it is Frostbite was designed for a PC and thats why it isnt as beautiful as it should be on console

[milontua]

@gr8gabe314 Frost bite does well with large environments , and graphics. But both engines have done flight battles, and ground battles. Frost bite innovated the destruction aspects which are more phenomenal online. the number of people dont really matter too me , since halo is a sci-fi game. The most A.I ive seen on screen all at once maybe around 15 maybe even less in battlefield. Halo can fit 60 at most, and still manage too be a sandbox game alot more freedom in halo.

[LOLsh0ck]

@yourmom654321 your dumb as fuck

[gr8gabe314]

@yourmom654321 Maybe its just your Xbox because mine handled it well and the graphics were beyond stunning.

[GeoJJx]

Well, that explains why the cutscenes look better than in gameplay.

[Epikkfailyurr]

MOAR!

[RogueTKDSoulja176]

Compared to the frostbite 2.0 engine, reach is way more beautiful in HQ HD, but the sad thing is that Bungie (and now 343 industries) constantly change the graphics engine, but from @ChampChong, he says that Halo 4 will be using a modded version of the halo reach engine

[spongysnake]

@RogueTKDSoulja176 naahhhh....both are not better looking than one another....while bungie made the engine to sound so fucking amazing real-time blah blah blah....halo reach isn't technically beautiful to look at.....still looked flat...but I do agree that reach has way too superior art direction and the skybox looked the BEST in the industry.

[EPICGuido45]

@HaloReachMcfarlane yeah really... i mean they're run in engine right???

[The343freak]

lol 0:16 Noble Six just splattered two of his fellow marines!

[TheZombiekilla259]

@JonMan7794 good point

[TheIceWolf1223demon]

343 is like bungies cousin and alot of bungie employees moved to 343

[pillarofdavidson]

@TheIceWolf1223demon

No :)

[iNFernoSoulja]

@pillarofdavidson yes

[pillarofdavidson]

@iNFernoSoulja

Four employees is not a lot, friend :)

[TheQboy9]

haha a soilder got hit at 0:17

[RescGT777]

Please Bungie, make a 720p native game this time.

[GoldenNeon99]

Suck that COD, no award for you. >:D

[christehchris]

Amazing.

[lopezmonzea12]

So that big thing at the end was the pilar of attum or something ?

[nagatofan123]

@lopezmonzea12 yes

[LEVANYELLOWDIVINTAGE]

@lopezmonzea12 yah

[PublicToasty]

In response to the flame war currently raging. Derp. That is all.

And to Bungie, great job guys, I have no idea what most of that stuff was supposed to mean, but there's no denying it looks awesome.

[sparten1527]

0:13 betrayal

[truebluevince]

did any one else notice the 2 marines get killed by that guy driven at 0:14 - 0:16?

[itbagalot]

thats cool, can't wait for your next game bungie. Even if it does take 10 years i have faith it will be worth the wait.

[christbl58]

@itbagalot Er, it won't take ten years, it should be out in several. They just can't make Halo for ten years, but even then they probably won't go back to the series.

[itbagalot]

@christbl58 i don't care how long it takes as long as its a fantastic game which i'm sure it will be.

[halofunclips]

@HaloReachMcfarlane Cause then we find out noble 6 has just like master chief 2 helmets

[HearTBreaKiD023]

no other game can do what Halo 3/Reach does.... and that's a fact

[XxsgtTeasp00nxX]

I want to do theater durin cuts enes!

[killerclimba]

And black ops still lags.

[kndwin003]

the grunts look like robots

[JapanForSale]

Bungie, you've out done yourselves again. The 360 is almost 6 years old and you can STILL create jaw dropping graphics and effects with that little box. I still remember how awestruck I felt when I first laid eyes on the first jungle in the start of Halo 3, and now you've come and made the world look even better.

You're doing what only a handful of Japanese studios have done near the end of the PS2's life cycle, and in turn you've helped made the 360 supreme this generation.

Good job.

[TrickyEmu]

@JapanForSale Yeah, if you ignore what CryTek, Frostbyte 2 are able to get out of X360 with full 720p

[uninterestingentity]

@TrickyEmu Crysis 2 ran sub-hd. Bad Company 1 and 2 have terrible FOV and aliasing + resolution isn't everything. Halo Reach could've been 1080p but a lot of things would have to go (AA, texture filtering, HDR, polygon count etc.)

[TrickyEmu]

@uninterestingentity bwahahaha. Areyou kidding me? halo Reach looks like Crysis 1 in lowest settings.

[Conmon1]

@TrickyEmu I used to have to play Crysis 1 on the lowest settings. Looks like Far Cry. Reach wins.

[halo31004]

@uninterestingentity but i played halo reach on a big flat screen tv on 1080p and it looks so beautiful.

[arbiter4353]

@WorldWideGameReviews Heh, I think more games need a map editor. :P

[shsvswimmer]

what is the name of the song at the beginning?

[ZX242Productions]

when he said "every active projectile to determine damage and health" first thing that came to mind was: Ice cream truck coming out of nowhere and landing on top of me... that or an Elite body flying into my face...

[SonicThunderBYG]

I think every game should have a commentary option similar to Portal and Portal 2 only once you activate the commentary track at the main menu, developer's commentary is activated say, at every checkpoint so the audio track isn't construed with the gameplay. Also, once a commentary track is activated at the checkpoint, you have an option to replay that last audio track by pressing the "Back" button or going to a sub-Pause menu and doing it from there. Wouldn't that be awesome?

[warcrazy1000]

Thumbs up if you think you should be able enter theater mode during a cutscene.

[Logos4FREE]

BUNGIE PLEASE MAKE A FORGE PACK OR SOMETHING WHERE YOU GET TO PUT PHANTOMS, SPIRITS, PELICANS, SCARABS, EXC. PLEASE!!!!! I THINK WE ALL WOULD LOVE A GOOD PRESENT LIKE THAT FOR BUNGIE DAY! THANKS! THUMBS UP SO BUNGIE CAN SEE!

[pricture]

@Logos4FREE Agreed. That would almost make up for how much I hate them right now lol

[PillsHere83]

@Logos4FREE Also body props I could use those on some of my maps

[Gamezonemachinima]

@Logos4FREE they wont do it bungie no longer do that kind of thing a small team do the maps that all doing what u said would require some new models and tweaking witch that small team could not accomplish

[phillips7361]

@Logos4FREE @Logos4FREE Dude, I know, it sucks, but Bungie sold Halo to 343 so they can no longer make interactions with it, such as new map packs or new armor... Maybe you can message 343 and convince them..

[XeroSyphon]

@phillips7361 Microsoft owns the Halo IP. Have since they bought Bungie way back when. When Bungie went third party, they didn't take Halo with them, simply because they didn't own it.

[The51195]

@Logos4FREE this is my second time giving thumbs up that would be pretty epic

[LulzAreGud]

@Logos4FREE You gotta ask 343 now, they made all the map packs

[gagegilliam13]

@Logos4FREE bungie has stop making halo games didnt u hear

[HeroicHereticsHH3]

@Logos4FREE This is impossible the way the game is coded.

[PikachuODST]

@Logos4FREE as awesome that would be, 343 industries ish now behind the wheel

[MrUmbrellaCorps]

Congratz Bungie! I just want to ask though, what is the song used in this video called? I completely forgot.

[demonblade8000]

Hey bungie why couldnt you make the budget in forge unlimited and why cant u make a pelican in forge and why couldnt u make unlimited forge objects

[PeaceXoXTime]

@demonblade8000 Because they would start dissapeaing ... If you had a strong PC and halo was on PC there could be unlimited money in forge

[iM0L3]

To bad Halo Reach was the worst Halo game ever made. Shit Campaign, Unbalanced Multiplayer, Crap Custom Games and Firefight is way better on ODST. Halo 1, 2 and 3 absolutely destroy this game.

[loompf]

@iM0L3 I hope one day, you find the help you need. You know, for your brain damage. XD

[iM0L3]

@loompf

I checked this morning and more people were playing Halo 3 than Halo Reach.

[loompf]

@iM0L3 That's funny. Last time i was on halo 3, 386 people were on, reach over 250,000. Even if more people played 3 (Which they don't) it still wouldn't mean it's better. You didn't ever give any reasons why 3 is better. All you did was say it's bad. My guess, you're just some stupid kid.

[iM0L3]

@loompf

The problems of Reach, were do I begin:

- DMR Bloom rewards spammers than people who time their shots, therefore equating to the person who is luckiest

- The maps are absolutely horrendous (Swordbase elevator camping) This is just one example

- Convenant weapons are useless (Focus Rifle)

- Banshee is extremely overpowered

- Armour abilities make the game way to unbalanced (Jet pack ruins map control)

- Armour Lock is a joke (Slows down gameplay and rewards bad players)

continue

[loompf]

@iM0L3 I think you should just stop your bitching and get better at the game, or fuck off.

[iM0L3]

@loompf

I am good at this game. Its just the fact that everyone is good at this game because it's so easy. There is such a small skill gap that it makes the game crap. Go on Halo 3 MLG and see how you do :)

[loompf]

@iM0L3 Pretty well actually. I have been a halo fan since Combat Evolved. The reason i didn't come up with any rebuttals for your points, is because none of them are valid. I'll agree, AR on slayer is stupid. But it works well on invasion, ect. The fact is, you're not a good player, so you bitch and complain about it. Don't act like you can go to MLG on halo 3 and win. Because i played there all the time and kicked ass. Sit down bitch!

[iM0L3]

@loompf

Please explain why the Reach community is now only at 100k? When Halo 3 was at 400k 4 years ago? There are thousands of other people who agree with me. I to have been a fan of the Halo series since CE. I remember having friends over all the time to play Rockets of Prisoner and Hang em High and CTF on Blood Gulch but Reach doesn't even capture the true Halo experience. All my points are valid which is 343i are bring a Title Update to fix these issues. I'd love to play you in Matchmaking.

[loompf]

@iM0L3 Ok. First of all, what's your GT? Second, why is it that halo 3 only has a max of 20,000 people or less a day?

[iM0L3]

@loompf

Gamertag is Mohlmander, whats yours?

[iM0L3]

@loompf

Also I just saw on the Bungie website that Halo 3 has had up to 200k people in the past 24 hours.

[loompf]

@iM0L3 Troll much? Go and play halo 3 now. It will have no more than 10,000

[iM0L3]

@loompf

bungie.net/online/default.aspx (Read the stats of today)

Whats your gamertag?

[loompf]

@iM0L3 Daily, not the current rate.  GT; Jrstarkiller

[iM0L3]

@loompf

Is there space between Jr and Starkiller?

[iM0L3]

@loompf

Oh and of course, instead of addressing any of the points I make, you just do what every Reach fanboys says, "adapt" or "fuck off" because you know I'm right and you can't think of any proper response than to insult me. You're an idiot.

[halo31004]

@iM0L3 well halo is not based on one game type, halo reach is made so you can fix anything to your liking and thats a fact. if you don't want all those armor abilities and vehicles and over shields, play classic slayer

[iM0L3]

@loompf

Problems:

- Melee system (3 shots + melee = melee) WTF!

- Overpowered grenades

- Ridiculous Auto Aim and Aim acceleration

- No good custom games

- Community maps are horrible

- Lack of community support

- Ranking system

These are just a few issues I have with Reach, and 250k on Reach... Are you joking. Reach barely breaks over 100k at peak hours. Halo 3 at peak hour has up to 50k online. If this game is "amazing", then why has most of the original Halo community gone?

[iM0L3]

@loompf

Oh any you're actually a stupid kid for thinking Reach has 250k online. Please tell me the great additions that Reach implemented to reject their Halo fanbase. (Halo 3 four years ago had 400 - 500k people online at peak hour)

[tucker1012]

better graphics than black ops..just saying

[RedVsBlueUser]

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[Nokterne]

now if only Forge World peformed well and looked good...laggy maps made up of grey blocks isn't exactly an achievement in my book...

[TheHALOlegoboy]

I never noticed the covenant cruiser crashing in the background

[privatepessleneck]

you can go into fly mode in cutsences but if you could, you could see noble six's face!......or the helmet he/she is removing/putting on.

[20DNA00]

can you achualy use flying camera during cutscenes if you can pzzz respond

[PaytonHi808]

@20DNA00 yeah, in the theater.

[christbl58]

@PaytonHi808 No you can't, silly.

[PaytonHi808]

@christbl58 yes u can, have you ever tried? you have to switch to it at the right time.

[christbl58]

@PaytonHi808 Oh, do you mean with the pan cam glitch?

[AwkwardTurtle717]

Halo Combat evolved Anniversary and Halo 4-6

[625507783]

how did they do that in 1:35, i tryed, didnt work

[VinculosxGamers]

@625507783 they create the game

[625507783]

@VinculosxGamers they said anyone can pause it and move around even during the cut scene

[VinculosxGamers]

@625507783 you can but just in the 00:00 of the cutscene

[SteeleInd]

Damn. I wish we could detach the camera during the cinematics like that. The screenshots would be incredible.

[JCFfilms]

And yet, people are still saying that halo reach graphics are bad...

O__0

[jimcoolfilms]

@JCFfilms ps3 faggots and cod fanboys

[Reconatior]

@JCFfilms

because people dont know the work behind the eyes, they are only like omg look how bad the graphics are but they dont know what work the codes are doing to make the awesome fx's

[0YtsanBlowout0]

So the cinimatics aren't pre-shot? Awesome game engine.

[DrsJacksonn]

Bungie, you're saying that you're so proud of your visual achievements - which you should be. In fact, if you're so proud of it, why no bigger campaign to honor these visuals? Each level in Halo: Reach in set in a different type of terrain - I wouldn't have minded three levels for each terrain type. You'd actually spend three missions in one area. And I wouldn't have cared if there was little difference through 2 or 3 levels - it would have made the campaign 2-3x longer!

[Bludhoundz8]

@DrsJacksonn Did you not just listen to the video?... The amount of resources needed to create this brand new engine is something that Bungie had never done before. The fact that they acheived such amazing perfection is one thing, are you truly not satsfied? On top of that, the amount of resources needed was a 100 times more than what they used to create past Halo games. Trying to make a way longer campaign would have been too much for any system to handle.

[rickybobby822]

Ha at 00:18 the guy Betrays

[warcrazy1000]

@rickybobby822 no 00:16

[sonicrocks942]

Might wanna be careful before winning that award. Red Dead redemption is VERY pretty, too.

[zombe08]

WOW!!! That was AWESOME!! REACH FTW!!

[ghostgamer96]

i cant believe bungie joined activison

[MrGojiralee]

@ghostgamer96 Bungie didn't join Activision. They just signed a deal with them so they'd have someone who'd publish the games they made.

[Jibbletoad]

@ghostgamer96 Well, this allows Bungie to create something new and AWESOME! for different consoles, something, not Halo. A new universe.

[poisonman50]

@Jibbletoad one would argue that halo is awesome and that one would keep wanting bungie to make it.

[StormHornet56]

0:16 oops -.-

[FinalCutKing]

thought you would like my channel and visual effects videos

Zach

[Asparagusman31]

hey bungie y don't you finish that halo movie because if you sell several halo games a day u should have enough money 2 make the movie...possibly...

[ninetailedfox03]

hey bungie can u like add a new vehicle to the halo reach matching the pelican just to transport people places no guns cuz i know it would be unfair and easily shot down( 1 laser or rocket) ,i know u cant just put it in the map but maybe if u add another map pack my gt is deadly armed

please please spread this to other videos so they can find out i will have to im sorry but it would be cool

[honky4real]

This game is some kind of next level.

[CrimsonProductionss]

@HunterPostHacked You suck compared to me. Now GTFO, you don't like it, don't watch it, idiot.

[krusher1919]

man im gonna miss halo from bungie lol hope 343 makes them just as good lol i hope its true they are going to continue halo

[TheArmo818]

1911

[CirclePony]

@TheArmo818 gay

[TheArmo818]

@CirclePony no, that effect was really cool.

[milontua]

@HunterPostHacked explain how it sucks , halo 3 was more into multiplayer than story , which honestly compared to reachs story is nothing. halo reach had a great storyline , but i will say that halo 3 kept me addicted Reach doesnt keep me addicted to its multiplayer , i think its because of the maps in multiplayer which lowered the addiction factor in reach because they based off the camaign while halo 3s maps werent .

[AceisBeast1]

@milontua Dude this guy posts the same comment on every Reach video. Trust me I've seen them. The thing is he doesn't understand that nobody gives two shits about what he has to say. I wouldn't waste my breath on this douche. I do have to give you props on your output though because one, you actually explained why some aspects of Reach just didn't compare to Halo3 and two, you actually nailed Reach to a t. The maps aren't very creative but they sure are fun.

[TheNoscopekiller]

halo reach made me cry

[majorgrade3]

bungie is the best best and the best and halo reach is the best xbox 360 game ever

[gofojibwas]

@majorgrade3 Bungie, Valve, Dice

best 3 makers of games ever!!

Bethesda gets an honourable mention for their quantity-over-quality mentality

[gamehelpkid]

@majorgrade3 best xbox game makers. valve is the best pc/osx game makers. ps3's is...uh...bioware....I think.

[Ternerr]

@majorgrade3 halo 3 mate

[arbiter4353]

@majorgrade3 I wouldn't as far to say it is the best 360 game.

[aa3gunner]

After I beat this game I was like

"Oh, wow. So after all this time of playing Halo CE since 2002, it was Noble 6 who paved the way for the Chief to do his job on the Ring and on Earth. Noble 6 deserved the same credit as the Chief."

Spartans are only MIA, right? Sad really. I was sad when I beat the game. So majestic and meaningful.

[luneth22]

Damn i want that camera

[cyberbemon]

name of the soundtrack ?

[milontua]

will 343 be getting this game engine and if so will they better improve on the game engine for future halo projects?

[TheKing0fHalo]

@milontua That's what I was wondering. It'd be a shame if this awesome game engine was just "forgotten" by Bungie and 343i.

[outlettered]

@milontua halo 4 please!!!!!!

[NwoSwat]

i love how all those people who survived reach dies rite after rather from the Covnant or the flood

[xalener]

PUT MOAR ON DOCUMINTASHIN PLZ

[nicknasios4]

0:46 inclement hog? :P

[XbMEntertainment]

@nicknasios4 Woah weird seing one of your comments on a vid. :P

[KillerShock120]

I want this game on PC. :D

[xXFR05TXx]

If it was on pc it could gave dynamic shadows too -_-' please don't leave us pc gamers out Bungie...

[EricMickle3]

But you couldn't have first person driving?

[acbm]

The 7 people that disliked this video were family members of Call of Duty, who was killed by Halo: Reach. Not only did Halo: Reach kill Call of Duty, but it dressed inappropriately at the funeral. XD

[blaky039]

simply amazing

[ndirish15]

Bungie is amazing. They not only come up with great visual effects time and time again, but have the story line to back it up. Sad to see halo go but you could definitely teach other devs a lot about quality.....cough.....cough...­..infinity ward

[pierreo33]

i dont care about this shit, just give me stable 30 fps, which reach failed with!

[xalener]

@pierreo33

What an ungrateful little prick.

[pierreo33]

@xalener ungrateful? learn what the word means before you use it.

[guildmasteraq]

Bungie is truly amazing. Not only are they one of the friendliest, funniest, and coolest game studios out there, they don't cut corners. They treat every second of their game like the Mona Lisa. For that, I thank you, and we thank you, Bungie.