Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is a complex love letter to original game

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is a complex love letter to original game: "




'This is our gift to the fans,' the two men from 343 Industries said. We're sitting in a small room set aside from a larger Microsoft event at E3, and we're about to take a look at Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, a game that sets out to take the now-classic Halo title and update the graphics for the modern day. I was able to watch one of the developers play the game in front of me, and while you can still tell that the title is based on an aging game, the updated engine goes a long way to making the game look closer to the graphical fidelity we're used to in games.



What's fascinating about this update is that there are actually two layers of code running at any given time, and you can switch between them at will.


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