I'm a casual gamer (I kind of like Halo and am a 'fanboy' of no game, franchise or genre) and so I can say this with the utmost objectivity: the graphics suck and the textures are ugly. Graphics are by no means of great importance to me, but since this is a FPS and since this article examines Halo 3's graphics, I felt compelled to point out the obvious. To reiterate, what I mean by "the obvious"... is that the graphics suck. They are not worthy of a game of such stature.
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