The graphics on Gears of War look pretty amazing already, but these two trailers for Halo 3 are incredible, if they’re what the graphics from the game engine will look like. The lighting is impressive. We’re not that far away from video games looking like Hollywood features. The sound is already there (5.1+ surround). The video is so close now. Check out these two clips. Even with the horrible Flash video encoding that YouTube uses, these look good:

That was the trailer. Here is the TV spot I found:

1080p, solid lighting and sound… just a few more polygons to smooth out and chisel out human features and we’re there. The metal uniform on the Halo characters looks amazing already.