If you've been following events in the world of Xbox over at our sister site Pure Xbox, you'll no doubt be aware that Halo Infinite is looming on the horizon – the next chapter in Microsoft's epic sci-fi saga which began with the launch of the original Xbox console almost 20 years ago.
Microsoft recently released gameplay footage running on the shiny new Series X console – footage which has left some people feeling a little deflated, it has to be said.
The viewpoint here is that – in gameplay terms, at least – Halo Infinite is going 'back to basics', but YouTuber Hoolopee (creator of the Death Stranding PS1 trailer) has taken this a step further, recreating the game's trailer as if it was being released on the Nintendo 64, a machine which pre-dates even the OG Xbox.
The end result might not be something we thought we wanted to see, but is incredibly impressive all the same. It even has Banjo-Kazooie-style gibberish speech made up of various sounds and chatter. Oh, and make sure you keep watching right until the end for a cool little N64 Easter egg.
Here's the original trailer, for comparison's sake:
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NO..... But I do wonder what the original Halo trilogy would look like on Switch though!
looks better then infinite. (This is a joke I know it was just the beta build)
Lost it when he jumped out of the painting at the end 😂
Brilliant.
Yep.....That’s pretty much what it looked like on the new Xbox
I don't see the difference.
Love it! Wish it didn’t end on him picking a star, but I guess it is a Mario mod at the end.
Actually, I loved this video! It looks like a real N64 game unlike Yooka Laylee's 64-Bit Tonic attempt. It's also fun for those half blind people that don't see the difference!
Hey check out the moon from Majora's mask in there! Nice little nod to MM It is between the 0:58-1:00 mark (top right corner)
Enjoyed that, it gave me Halo DS vibes .
Not much different than the dreck they showed on the XBSX..
Next gen my butt. MS really made a misstep showing that imo. They want people to pay 500+ for a console that looks like an XBX? Good luck.
@sixrings More or less like the MCC versions I'd assume.
I'd love a spiritual successor on Switch. Switch needs more co-op and solid MP FPSes.
Where's the fog?
Star fox 64 had voice acting, games like banjo kazooie had gibberish.
@sixrings It would look like a $60 per game ripoff.
Based on tribes but dumbed down.
@matt02785 Good point, I was thinking of the SNES Star Fox. Will update!
The frame rate was too good, but otherwise spot on! Lol it's so great.
Nope. The world and vehicle has too many polygons.
The draw distance is wayyyyyy too far for that amount of polygons. Looks neat though
It does look N64ish when you pause the video otherwise it's bit too well animated (and I think there was no aliasing). I loved the sound fx taken from here and there... and the troll painting at the end. Trolling indeed.
That brown bus got more polygons as he was moving away from it.
I would like to see what it would look like on the Gamecube since that was the current Nintendo console competing with the original Xbox.
Looks better than on Series X.
Looks the same as the actual footage. Lol.
This was hilarious.
Microsoft, please let this happen on Switch?
@echoplex @Yrreiht And the frame rate is good. It's using Expansion Pak 2.
That’s actually not bad lol considering!
@Damo @matt02785 the Japanese and EU versions of the game have an option for ‘Lylat’ language voice acting, so it does have that gibberish speak too. Doesn’t sound as good as the SNES version of gibberish though!
To be Honest a top N64 game made by like Rare looks much better than this. Maybe runs bad but looks better.
The N64 was not kind to textures. Demastering textures to look like something you would have to fit in a cart is kind of silly. Now take a modern cart like everdrive that can hold any size rom and it might be more interesting what it could do.
I legit LOLed when he got the star.
This actually looks really cool! It also takes me back to playing the original PC release of Halo on a very underpowered eMachines desktop in 2006. Talk about low res lol
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