Highlands is the worst looking multiplayer map in Halo Reach. In fact, when compared to all the other maps in Reach the Defiant map pack’s visuals are sub-par. Unearthed being the exception.
They play great, but look like something that could be shipped with Halo 3.
The reason I’m bringing this up is because I was playing Breakpoint earlier and I noticed how good it looks. The skybox is absolutely amazing. Highlands’ skybox however, while the idea is great, looks like rubbish. The ground textures are extremely copied and pasted everywhere. Hell, the textures all around look terrible.
The thing I like the most about it is that there is a covenant cruiser glassing Reach while spartans are fighting each other. The map plays kinda horrible, too. I mean really? 2 Shotguns and power weapon spawning really fast. It is hard to have a vehicle fight without getting shot with a power weapon.
The map will run much smoother if the graphics are downgraded I think. And thats perfectly fine with me. I’m sure as hell not going to be looking at trees and the scenery while in a game. Anyways what is important is how good the map plays and Highlands is the best BTB map in Reach so far in my opinion. Breakpoint might look like a very nice map but is crappy gameplay wise, mostly all the maps on that shipped are bad gameplay/map design wise.
