I hate to say it, but to be brutally honest, the only things that really improved drastically with xbox360 is texture mapping. All of the better looking images have 3 things, 1) more defined, deeper textures 2) softer shadows, and realistic shadows considering that halo2 hardly had any 3) higher poly counts for places that need it. Don't get me wrong, thats a impressive upgrade in a generation, shadows use lots of RAM and so does poly count and texture mapping. The only thing they will make better from now until the actual release is fine tuning the interface image, adjusting the lighting for the best photorealism possible and work on getting rid of all the bugs they can and black spots. I'm deffinately going to buy the game, for you halo bashers out there, i used to be a halo basher, and no i love it, you will too noobs!

And as for that last picture, i can assure you that xbox360 does not look like that, not even if you hit it with a baseball bat.

I think Halo is just made for console, forget about computers man.