OT: There really isn’t anything that surprising or shocking. It’s a nice simple art style with high quality lighting and decent models. For a console RTS it’s pretty good.
Pretty standard fair for RTS graphics.
You aren’t going to get ultra high-res textures and shader effects for a game that can have hundreds of units and highly detailed effects and physics on-screen at any given moment. RTS are full of real-time destruction and mayhem. FPS only have a slice of that onscreen at a time and it’s downscaled over distances. RTS can’t do that.
Remember, it has to be able to run smoothly on console, so don’t try to compare HW2 against the higher-end PC RTS games currently out, which will still generally look similar anyway.
EDIT: these screenshots also look rather zoomed-in. I expect normal gameplay to be somewhat further zoom-out.
They’re fine, they look a lot like Halo: Spartan Assault.
It fits the game
Looks great, expecting more later though, expecting the lowered graphics to be there due to beta but wouldn’t expect too much more
It looks good but nothing amazing
They are a little above par. I will thoroughly enjoy watching battles play out.
The environments look fantastic, though the units themselves look a bit on the cartoony side. Overall though, I do really like the graphics!
Wow that is a lot of options haha. I personally think it is a great art style/graphic style. I am not a big fan of it though. I prefer more realistic. This looks less realistic and more childish. I can look past it though and it is still a great style but oh well. I am so excited to play. Looks like they have done a great job so far judging by the leaks.
It’s a beta so they aren’t gonna put the real graphics in yet. Also, the original wars had better unit graphics than this so I doubt they’ll downgrade them. The current beta graphics are too cartoonish and don’t fit in with the realistic environment. It’s going to be like gears 4, bad beta graphics but the full game’s graphics look awesome.
They’re okay. Not too much of an upgrade from the original. I’ll have to play it first hand to decide for sure.
The original Halo Wars had a cartoon aesthetic, so the new graphics make sense. I think they look great.
Serviceable, though I wish the units didn’t look so cartoony. It looks like I’m watching Mini Halo Bros. or something instead of a large-scale battle.
Like, units look big compared to the environment and look like caricatures of the real thing in some cases.
The units do look a litle bit over exaggerated. Like the giant Brutes or the skiny marines, wich remind me of some kind of ninja troops ^^ . But my biggest worries lie in the graphics of the enviroment. I want them to be detailed and realistic, the units on the other hand can be a litle bit cartoonish, just not too childish. But in the end the graphics wont stop me from buying this game only the quality of the gameplay and the story could stop me from spending my money on it. (even though I am going to buy it for sure, since I need to experience it myself and I am a big Halo Fan…)