Why was it so terrible in comparison to H2A?

They reused reach assets the lazy fucks. It has no MP. Also chiefs armour looked really homo.

SPV3 was superior anyway

>ruin the atmosphere of Halo 2
>great
For you not to call yourself a 343shill, you sure sound like a 343shill.

There';s absolutely parts CEA ruins the art style and it's a lot more liberal about updating the aesthetic then H2A in general; but most of CEA is still fine.

There's in fact a lot of areas in CEA that look closer to the concept art then CE itself is due to just how limited CE was at the time.

Worse hardware and tighter time constraints. Did it use any original assets, or was everything ripped from the 360 games?

They AR and magnum were original assets. But here’s what’s fucking retarded. In the original gameplay reveal trailer, the AR and magnum were taken from reach, but so were all the other weapon, vehicle and enemy assets. For some reason, everybody fucking complained that the having the reach AR and magnum in CE made no sense canon wise, so 343 changed them, but they kept the reach assets for everything else. So, what we end up having is this weird looking game we’re everything looks like they belong in halo reach, except for the AR and magnum which feel really out of place.

Also they used the wrong gold elite model and they put white shit all over the elite majors.

youtube.com/watch?v=39GtX5L4CBc

Also, multi just being Reach maps.

The Magnum was definitely just the Halo 3 model.

Because of these guys, they ruined Quake as well

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>>ruin the atmosphere
If you were talking about CE's remake sure, but 2A was literally just better
I constantly swapped back and forth between new and old graphics to compare and the only place that arguably looked worse was the elevator in Quarantine Zone

They did 2A's campaign as well
I suppose Microsoft just forced them to get their shit together for this one game?

343 used the shit PC port of Halo 2 they did this with CE as well to make the remakes look better. if I had to choose between Halo CE and Halo 2 and the remakes, I'll choose the original working Xbox games in a heartbeat.

>based on the bad PC port
>re-use of Reach assets that don't fit CE's more colorful aesthetic
>God-awful chief model
>missing models
>lighting changes
>elite shields basically don't light up at all
Need I say more? 343 is incompetent.

>Halo 2 Anniversary was basically a total upgrade that managed to preserve the atmosphere and art style
The pre-rendered cutscenes in H2A are fucking awful. Wrongly paced with the characters talking too fast for some reason, beautiful cinematography fucked up. They ruined various jump cuts. It's just a mess.

Saber made it.

>SPV3 was superior anyway

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This

The single player maps had all sorts of mismatched geometry. I remember during the early sniper mission, I kept wasting bullets because I was trying to shoot between two rocks that were actually one big boulder in the original graphics. And there were parts of the covenant ship where it looked like you could take cover for your shield to recharge, but the enemy could still shoot you because what they had projected stuck out much more than the actual geometry did.

SEXUAL
EDGE
HR GIGER GONE WRONG

>the sexual edge

The CEA graphics actually hurt my eyes because of all the extra clutter that the enemies don't stand out against, especially Elite Majors.