Holy cack, I finally dug deeper into the campaign(up to level 6 currently) and my god did stages 4 and 5 look super stunning. How anyone can call this a mediocre looking game is baffling. The use of lighting and HDR is so perfected in this game, that the variance in color, shading, and lit areas between the mostly clear and crisp stages 4 and 6 and the dusty, dim setting that is chapter 5 is just EEK!
Chapter 5: just gazing up at the sky and watching the whole environment calibrate itself to a new hue and color pallette as HDR seeps in to convey the havoc that exists between the sun and the infestation...wonderful! Bravo! You can just keep sweeping the right stick around and watch the visuals adjust and contort the shaders and lighting to fit the viewpoint. (PS: HDMI on a CRT XBR in 720p BTW)
Holy feck. One of the best looking games on ze 360.
Also, what was with the steep decline in difficulty between 4 and 5. Chapters 2/3 were pretty rough going on Heroic solo, but I pushed through these chapters with barely a scratch. ???
Chapter 5: just gazing up at the sky and watching the whole environment calibrate itself to a new hue and color pallette as HDR seeps in to convey the havoc that exists between the sun and the infestation...wonderful! Bravo! You can just keep sweeping the right stick around and watch the visuals adjust and contort the shaders and lighting to fit the viewpoint. (PS: HDMI on a CRT XBR in 720p BTW)
Holy feck. One of the best looking games on ze 360.
Also, what was with the steep decline in difficulty between 4 and 5. Chapters 2/3 were pretty rough going on Heroic solo, but I pushed through these chapters with barely a scratch. ???