Halo 3 wins two from the Visual Effects Society

About time Halo 3 got some recognition for its graphics. People think it's bland, but get it on an HDTV and get the camera in close in theater and you'll see hundreds of tiny scratches on armour, and close in you'll see tons of stunning visuals.

Just looking at the light and the water in the first level is enough proof that Halo 3 does have some nice looking graphics, and I thought the in game cutscenes were well done also in terms of graphics and story.

I think Halo 3's visuals are fantastic too, I'm just surprised it won this award.

I made these people's desserts last night too! I was in the kitchen without being aware that Halo 3 won any awards.

Seriously. This award had to be only for 360 games. Halo has decent graphics but nothing compared to other games. Halo isn't even in the same book as Uncharted. Bungie used the same engine as in halo 2. They didn't upgrade like every other developer. If it says Halo people will buy it, you can have peach on the cover, still wouldn't matter. My guess Microsoft paid VES some money like they always do.

When Uncharted 3 comes out on the NEXT gen Playstation, I'll quote you the sales figures and list the awards it's won.

Halo 3 was a very beautiful game. The reason that it gets stick is the art style, a game doesn't need a "realistic" art-style to look realistic.The style of the games, especially Halo 2, but present in all of them meant that it is hard to make them look like CoD4, but it doesn't mean that the graphics, textures aren't as good or better than CoD4. When you are modelling fictional creatures, aliens, technology, and space-craft it takes a lot of work to make them convincing, it is much easier to make copies of real-life items like in CoD4.

Also just look at the backgrounds and level designs and tell me that they aren't brilliant, remember Halo 3 has "over 100 more p's than CoD4".

"Outstanding Models or Miniatures in a Broadcast Program or Commercial", really? Is this a regular award or created for Halo 3?

Anyway, Halo 3 had decent graphics. Fantastic in some places, old in others and bland in a few spots. I think Call of Duty 4, Crysis, Bioshock, Mass Effect, all these takes the cake away from Halo 3. I wonder what made them give it the award. Bluntly put, dollars maybe.

Everyone is complaining about how other game have better graphics than Halo. This is true, but that is not what the award was for. Halo isn't getting the waward for "best overall graphics," it is being awarded for features like its particle effects which are at the top of the game. It is the minor effects and the technical aspects of accomplishing them being looked at.

Read this:

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=13240

If a game was "overlooked" it was because its creators didn't enter it into the competition.

No awards for the water?