Quote Originally Posted by Wave of Lag View Post
Sorry sunny, but its still not as awesome as that rusted metal on the blue base in good ole h1. cant beat the classics!
That blue base shader can be recreated easily. It's a matter of what you put into the shader. I've done things with metal in H2 that are crazy, while playing around. I'm trying to make the statement that Halo 2 does not have dull shaders. Bungie just dimmed the reflection amount in them compared to H1. That can all be increased.

The blue base texture was good use of a bump-map with a fitting texture and a nice reflection. That's it. Change one property of that and it looks terrible. If the same engine is upgraded, of course it can beat the classics. If it can't, I'd call that a downgrade.