Halo Anniversary Graphics That Make Absolutely No Sense

While the Halo Anniversary games are good looking for the most part, it is fun to just compare the Original Halo Vs Halo's Anniversary Graphics. Because sometimes the Halo CE Anniversary and Halo 2 Anniversary graphics make absolutely no sense. And other times these remastered Halo textures don't line up at all.

Introduction 0:00 - 1:31
Halo CE Anniversary VS Original 1:32 - 9:29
Halo 2 Anniversary VS Original 9:29 - 14:46
Halo Textures That Make No Sense 14:47 - 15:17

[LumanatorRightHere]

There was a time in anniversary where I tried to shoot at a grunt only to realize that the classic graphics shows me shooting directly at a tree branch.

[lindaunderling]

In halo 2 the boundaries of outskirts is extended because 343 knew about speedrunning. Beating the par time has an achievement called "rooftop rumble". I liked that detail

[Starfeeshia]

I absolutely love the fact you can switch the graphics on the fly.

[MainsDude]

Its really interesting of how much it was changed. Like how The Library in Halo:CE was dark and in Anniversary it was this illuminated place. And how Guilty Spark, despite being more horrorish with its foggy swamp, became this mystical forest with its bluish hue all around and the yellow lights everywhere. And on top of that most people dont really like the change while most people love the changes in Halo 2 Anniversary.

[DarkBooger]

Combat Evolved really needs a new anniversary edition or at the very least fix what is already there. The main issues I have when using anniversary graphics in CE is some textures not matching up with what is in classic, the lighting on certain levels and performance issues

[illeumbra]

The marine is in time out, he wouldn’t give chief his rocket launcher

[omgitshawnxd]

Fun Fact, the port that we see as Halo CE Classic is actually a port of the original Game. When Halo CE FIRST came to PC it was ported by a 3rd party studio and they took short cuts and ported the game very quickly and took out a lot of original graphical designs, ambience, lighting, etc of the Original Xbox Release. So when 343 ported the game over to new consoles with the anniverseary edition, they ported a ported version of the game. So when they made the remastered edition, its actually of the non original game.

[unsortedguy]

I can't play Halo CE anniversary graphics 😅 Halo 2 it's really nice though!!

[jediguardiankyle]

Flying around in halo CE I always run into a wall that is there in OG but not anniversary

[HumbleHonkingEnthusiast]

I always thought the CE anniversary graphics looked bad and muddy. I always turn them off. Art style was chucked out the window chasing fidelity and they didn't preserve the feel of the game at all. Halo 2 anniversary was much better at this, and halo 3 held up so well there wasn't even a point

[jonnybechatting]

That marine on guilty spark is using the classic "if I can't see them they can't see me" trick 🤣🤣

[RBLCPTAN]

The number game I would love to have a Anniversary version is ODST image how much more beautiful Mombasa Streets would look. ODST is personally my favourite Halo game out there after Halo CE.

[PinkSpaceDinosaur]

2:29 I stumbled across this once a long time ago and I'm glad someone found it again

[malkkov]

discovering you could hop between each graphics mode in 1/2 was probably the best thing about MCC, so damn cool

[MajorityFFA]

You’re not even going to talk about the assault on the control room/2 betrayals cliff sides that are entirely pass through-able?

[ObstacleRace]

If this was a 10 second video that cut to black immediately after the thumbnail only to say "All of it". I still would agree .

Edit: For HCEA ONLY.

[YukariTheAlpaca]

Those huge empty areas in Halo 2 while out of bounds are most likely for optimization. Since these areas are not really visible to the player unless they exploit, they can just not populate these areas with models and textures to allow the game to load faster and run smoother.

[ManBrianUniverse]

At: 4:49 you do realize you don't have to jump on the pelican to get outside of the map? After the cutscene just Spam the grenade button and your character will stay inside the pelican. And the pelican will land on top of the hill outside of the map.

[PajamaPantsStudios]

Fr 343 sure knows how to do a remaster IMO. The instant swap between new and old graphics? They didn’t need to do that. But they did. And that’s a feature that hits so hard.

[Climacticc_Chaos]

Halo 1 is a better looking game than most games in 2023. We didnt know it at the time, but we never needed "anniversary" graphics