14 DAY TRIAL // "Have you been ripped off?" is the question ClassAction Connect asks its viewers when it comes to Halo 3 and you probably have no idea what they are talking about. Well... you should know that this kind of things only seem hardcore, but sometimes aren't. The fact is that ClassAction attorneys want to sue Bungie for false advertising.
Here's what they say: "A team of class action attorneys has launched an investigation into complaints that Halo 3 was falsely marketed as a high definition product, but does not actually render native high definition resolutions. These complaints are that, although Halo 3 was advertised as having a 720p resolution (720 pixels), it natively renders at 640p (640 pixels) and is simply scaled up to 720p. If you purchased the Halo 3 game, you may be entitled to recover money. Please note the naming of a company does not imply that it engaged in any wrongdoing."
Ok, so... they're a little late. It was ages ago (well, not ages, but everything happened a while ago, after Halo 3 was released, when some hardcore players stated that the game is not HD and renders vertically at 640 pixels, instead of 720 (but the picture is scaled to 720). And Bungie did admit that this fact was true: "We wanted to preserve as much dynamic range as possible - so we use one for the high dynamic range and one for the low dynamic range values. Both are combined to create the finished on-screen image...In fact, if you make a comparison shot between the native 1152x640 image and the scaled 1280x720, it's practically impossible to discern the difference", Bungie's Luke Smith said.
Now it's just a matter of time to see if enough signatures will be collected and how much people will ask in compensation for the 80 pixels. Does this make Halo 3 a bad game? Of course not. But... it's quite a drama, right?