[QUOTE="Leejjohno"][QUOTE="enterawesome"]Cinematography? Is that a joke? The whole game is in first-person! :lol: At least Halo has actual cutscenes that can qualify as "cinematography". Art style? If you consider real world locations just poligonized then saturated in all kinds of shades of brown as art-style, then okay. But Halo's art sytle is actually original. Highly polished graphics, I'll give you. The graphics don't seem to have many bugs or glitches. Thankfully, it's the same case with Halo.enterawesome
No dude; Killzone 2 may have that art style, Gears of War may have that art style but all in all Cod actually has quite a few different environments, and even then the war style locations are quite realistic, and not oversaturated with one colour.
As for cinimatography, you obviously don't remember the emp scene, whereas Halos cutscenes were full of hand animated awful looking unrealistic characters bouncing all over the place telling uninteresting facts to one another or just outright falling arse over head to convey some sense of mysticism about the chief.
Halos style is some what original. I can give it that but because of how bad the graphics are it just winds up looking cheesy and half arsed, which I know it's not but it certainly doesn't impress but I guess that's subjective anyway.
I was using hyperbole when describing CoD's locations. The majority of the game is in the bland Middle-east and deprived and destroyed Washington DC (ala Fallout 3), but there are some very notable locations. The Favela is very impressive, however, it reminded me of Nepal from Uncharted 2 with all it's vibrant colors while still looking saturated with war, or the oil rig mission, which was mostly blue. As for the emp scene (I assume you're referring to the part with the astronaut), I guess. It only lasted a little under a minute though. Halo's "cinematography" on the other hand, is backed up by actually decent writing and devoloped characters as well as a sensical story, and the fact they actually represent "CINEMA". Like, movie cinema. While I do wish that the animation was motion capture, it's still not terrible or anything. The rest of that second paragraph of yours I can't make out, I really don't know what arse over head means, or how blatantly you're generalising every single scene from Halo as characters falling over and telling each other facts while bouncing. Halo's style is pretty original, except for some UNSC ship designs, which are heavily inspired by Aliens (but honestly, every sci-fi out there copies Aliens in one way or another). The graphics aren't that bad either. The lighting and detail are great, as well as massive scope and the largest ever draw distance in video game history. The only issue I see is some flat or last-gen textures. To fall arse over head means to trip and at the apex of the fall your arse is at a higher altitude than your head (like when you walk on a banana skin with the back of your foot)... in this case it was a figure of speech to mean that the characters of the game "try very hard" but ultimately fail at making the MC seem mystical or otherworldly (don't you remember cortanas opening speech? ). By bouncing I meant the way marines move in the game, their entire silhouette is just utterly exaggerated in both cutscenes and in game, but I found your interpretation of it extremely funny in my minds eye anyway :P.
As for draw distance I thought GTAIV was more impressive, or even Crysis.
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