Half-Life 2 Images & Info

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  The models certainly have a higher polygon count in Half-Life 2. : wunderbred
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    Hmmm... I don't know about that. Doom 3's incredible looking models really has to do more with the bump ... : sevogajre
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      The half life 2 models are 5000 polys average with bump mapping (normal mapping) too. : gl2 drivers
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        yes...... but that doesn't negate the fact about Doom 3. How many polys are there average in each model ... : sevogajre
        • I believe it's a bit lower for doom3, but who knows what's changed with doom3 in the last year I suppose.... : gl2 drivers
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  You cant judge that from that tiny shot. : gl2 drivers
  • he said don't tell him that : burningpantsman
• 2 different games : Xion
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  they dont fucking look like plastic dolls like in doomIII : Cpt. Baseballbat
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    Beat this http://doom3.ingame.de/articles/pics/screenshots/1.jpg : Cpt. Baseballbat
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      as i said... atleast hl2 characters/walls dont look plastic. And there are actually colors rather than br... : Cpt. Baseballbat
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        I would say characters and surfaces in all games besides doom and other similar engine games don't look ... : ease_one
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          nah, to me stalker/hl2 look more realistic than doomiii. in terms of realistic i dont mean better gfx or ... : Cpt. Baseballbat
          • The characters in DOOM III don't look shiny. They just have oily skin. I guess it's a matter of taste, bu... : Cpt. Baseballbat
      • I'm a confirmed id hater, BUT too many colours would look kinda shit on a space station dude. Id have ... : 4ge
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  and Im sure you know this through your many years and knowledge of being a producer at game companies? ... : Xion
  • "mediocre gameplay". I still rate the gameplay of Doom1 as genius. Simple yes but it worked perfectly. I ... : koder
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    stfu know it all.. your wrong too : Pneum0
    • yeah alright : Xion
    • What about his wrong? : bigimp
  • I can't even begin to describe this post without severely insulting you. As hard as I try to come up wit... : myLeftTesticleofFury
  • game companies pay like shit thats why i'm not in one. Unless ur a god like J.C. which coincidentally is ... : junkstyle
  • im not new to gaming at all, i bought halflife when it first came out, theres not much u can say about ga... : shitpointlesslogins
• Your name is strangely appropriate right about now :) : EvilDolemite
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  Did you really say, "fail"? : ntense
  • lol, yes he did. : snuff
• Those images do look a little 'flat' considering the engine supports bump/specular. The other images I've... : koder
• The original Half-Life took a long long time. In fact, most thought it was a doomed project because it m... : Selfist
• Anyone can fake a screenshot to look incredible, shame screenshots have very little to do with how good t... : narby--
• A lot of games will be taking longer to develop these days. The sheer amount of detail required to keep ... : myLeftTesticleofFury
• max payne took forever and was crazy successful. dev time means nothing. : veggie
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  You're such a fucking... [insert insult here] : Colin Higgins
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    troll : pyide
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      dev time means a lot, the fact is valve are tossers : shitpointlesslogins
      • *stamp stamp stamp cry* : narby--

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• Why do I hunger.... : Cpt. Baseballbat

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• So true ... so true. : Cpt. Baseballbat
• REMATCH: Bungie vs. Crytek vs. Valve : SlamDunk
• Bungie would win, but it's very derivitive of Valve. : kingdepork

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• No new stuff... : SlamDunk

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• Too bad the game is Blue Shit. Opposing Force was much better and longer too. : SlamDunk

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• The 3rd Head Crab from the left in scene 41. She was wearing a blue sundress. : Xak Malice
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  I'm guessing the idea will be that Gordon was somehow involved in her death, giving Alyx and Gordon some ... : Carnivac
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    mistook her for a zombie and crowbar'd her face? : FoX3D
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      Zombie? Hell, I beat every scientician into a bloody mess. We're not carrying any dead weight in this m... : Dechter
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        "Gordon, no!" : Carnivac
        • Hahaha I'd forgotten all about that! : parker.ny
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      Nah would have happened 'off screen', perhaps killed in the initial accident or something, but she'll bla... : Carnivac
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        Or it'll be the classic "muahahha i was nevar really your friend!! Time to die mistar freemen!!" : kingdepork
        • Alyx wouldnt do something like that... Would she? : elementZen
    • That wasn't a crowbar. ;) : Fyunch Click
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  who is Alyx in HL?? was she only in some add-on that I never played? : suqur
  • No, she's the chick in the HL2 screenshots. : xenoeye
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  OMG have you never watched a Soap Opera ;) Alyx = Gordon's daughter (though he probably doesn't know it.)... : MatthewPhillips
  • incestilicious : dodob
  • Actualy Axly' father is the African American scientist named Eli. : voodooraze
• dunno. but she is the new hotness. : Antilles_Prime
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  Well, if you remember, there weren't any females anywhere in the Black Mesa compound, so they could use o... : Dynotaku
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    Wasn't Eli the black scientist you rescued from somewhere? And how is Eli (black) the father of Alyx (... : Odoyle
    • I think if anything, this "alex" lady is caucasian/african. Or possible african/asian, Look at Bruce Lee'... : voodooraze
  • Maybe Eli is the first scientist who talked to you initially after the accident. He was next to the equip... : Magitek
  • You know how it is - as anything becomes more popular it needs to be more pc, so now females are importan... : bbq gibs
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  Of the two females from the Half-life universe: 1) Hologram HEV tutor. 2)In blueshift a woman pushed ... : narby--
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    Don't forget the covert ops ladies. :) : wunderbred
    • Oh yes, but would she help Freeman if her mother was killed by him? I guess we'll find out soon. : narby--
  • The woman pushing the cart was Gina. Gina is Alyx's mother, the wife of Eli. : Cpt. Baseballbat
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  Goron met her at MIT and had mad sex with her. Then she died during the accident. : MarksmanX
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    I thought Alyx was the daughter of a scientist working at City 17 : ShekkyBoy
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      No its in the future guys... Freeman was frozen or something, and this is her daughter : cncpun
      • It is set in the future but Freeman wasnt frozen its just a few years ahead of the original HL. : peetabix01

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  Dude, just type Valve. : Carnivac
  • Nah, it's cooler this way. :p : wunderbred
• I think the main improvement will be a refocus on the details. While the tech specs may not be quite as i... : gregorybrown
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  Ye of little faith. : angelparadox
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    Want a cookie? : wunderbred
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      You don't have a cookie. -_- That's mean. : angelparadox
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        No, but I do have Sanitarium. : wunderbred
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          I remember playing the demo for that in like ?1998? must download buy it. : rasputinreborn
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            If you can find it for cheap! It goes for full price on Ebay. : Pink0r
            • share the love y'all. I, too wish to experience madness...and I don't want to watch One Flew Over the Cu : rasputinreborn
• I think the main improvements will be in the environment interaction, AI, and their animation system. : sevogajre
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  HL2 will advance the use NPC characters. That facial expression screenshot of that lady happy, sad, angry... : blender81
  • I didn't think so... : myLeftTesticleofFury
• here are the areas in which Valve innovated in HL (as far as i can recall at least) 16-bit color for q... : veggie
• We need intelligent side kicks. The Halo ones were awesome (in that they didn't do stupid shit). Also the... : Sebastian Sylvan

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• Based solely on the companies previous games, I'd say HL2 But otherwise, definitely Doom3. Having hir... : liquidlies
• 1. HL2. 2. Doom3 3. HaloPC 4. STALKER. 5. TRON2 : johnny rotten
• I think because of the impact both companies have given me through past games, it's equal for me. Each f... : gyvoji
• 1 - DOOM3 2 - Quake4 3 - Half-Life2 4 - World of Warcraft 5 - Grand Theft Auto Vice City 6 - Halo2 : beefcake01
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  er... mario kart dash for cube gets my jucies flowing : Cpt. Baseballbat
  • Nah, the original Super Mario Kart has been the best version so far, and it wasn't developed by Nintendo.... : Selfist
• HL2 definately. id still sucks at making "games." Great at creating technology (engines) tho. : Thradar
• WAY more.... : SlamDunk
• HL2 by a landslide. Doom3 will be fun to look at. HL2 will be fun to play---i hope : junkstyle
• I don't get people who say id doesn't make "games" only "engines". I've loved every single game that has ... : Sebastian Sylvan

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• yep. Then new consoles come and ppl will be preaching the doom of PCs again. : junkstyle

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• ZING!!! : Katarn3279
• haha...that would be great : buttermilksloth
• Yes, it's time for ATI to take a leak. : kingdepork
• GOLDEN : Skeez187
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  Where does that zing quote come from again? : machpelican
  • My uncle used to say that all the god damn time when I was a kid : rosewood
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    It's a semi-common quote, and i believe SA forums started saying it a shitload a year or so back. : kingdepork
    • Scott Kurtz has been using it for some amount of time with his Max character, and the PvP Forums started ... : Cpt. Baseballbat
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      Yes, SA created the "zing" phrase. Guys, that's been around since the fifties and sixties. : Colin Higgins
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        Yep, and I'm the guy that coined the phrase "Pardon my French". : Pink0r
        • I invented the question mark : Pointy
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        Zing was popularized by SA thanks to Sealab 2021 where Captain Murphye used it in his radio show. : Evil Furby
        • um no..... : phil_mckraken
        • Uhhh...no. : Colin Higgins
      • Note i said it was semi-common...as in it's always been around, but SAers did start saying it a shitload ... : kingdepork
  • Pokey The Penguin? : dopeman
• Hahahahahhahahhaha : SlamDunk
• Hahahah! This should be marked informative. : melancoholicz

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• no kiddin. I think ppl take things for granted WAY too easily. we could always go back to Commander Keen ... : epit
• Didn't you know? Everyone who badmouths the graphics in games is in fact working on a much better looking... : Dynotaku
• That's what the teleporter screenie looked like. I couldn't put my finger on it, but the visual design lo... : gregorybrown
• People are being very quick with bad comments on these tiny, low quality pics. : snuff
• I have seen people dis Tron (the movie) because of its 'bad graphics.' I just laugh and shake my head. ... : rasputinreborn

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• very true, but if the animation and models are crap, or the engine isn't up to snuff, it might look good ... : suqur
• High res, high quality art is clearly very important but I still think the importance of new tech like pe... : koder
• /nitpick/ the word you are looking for is jiBe not jiVe....Everyone and their brother makes this mistake... : rasputinreborn

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  err... some one dispose of the above post for me.. : tuxxy
  • I hate 3rd person view shooters but Max Payne was too good to not play it. Although I was only able to pl... : beefcake01

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  • Thank you. : tuxxy

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• I agree. I wouldn't mind sitting back and watching half-life (or ff7 or CT or.. ) as if it were a movie.. : tuxxy

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• Anyone whose had their hands on the Doom3 alpha can attest to the fact that the screens do absolutely no ... : johnny rotten
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  doom3's character shadows are no different than the first halflife's...though doom's are completely opaqu... : johngloid
  • o_O : Katarn3279
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    This is so utterly wrong. : GeorgeB3DR
    • well, whats your opinion about HL2 (compared to Doom 3, Deus Ex 2. I don't ask for DNF because you won't ... : matthaeus
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    http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/r9700pro-oc/doom3-3.jpg http://www.tweak3d.net/autoexec/halflife/image... : johngloid
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      http://www.planethalflife.com/nostalgia/halflife/screens/alien_controller.jpg that's more what the hl ... : johngloid
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        saying that the original half-life shadows are like Doom3's is like saying a pentium4 is just like a pent... : johnny rotten
        • for all doom3's going to be, i thought it should at least have a shadow dropoff : johngloid
      • Ummm...that's NOTHING like Doom 3's shadowing/lighting?? You're a little confused, aintcha? George Br... : Cpt. Baseballbat
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    doom shadows are completely Opaque? : ease_one
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      http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/doom3/DOOM+III/1/081502/081502_doom3_2.jpg : ease_one
      • that is such a great shot. THIS FALL IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME! : johnny rotten
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    From the screens of HL, only the characters/object cast shadows. In Doom3, all surfaces cast shadows (Ch... : bbq gibs
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      Your wrong HL2 engine can do the same : Cpt. Baseballbat
      • And how did you find out this information? The magazines have certainly not alluded to this, nor the scr... : wunderbred
      • can or does? all the shadows in doom are the same. In one of the shots you can clearly see what appears... : ease_one
  • Please tell me you were being sarcastic. If you weren't, well, do us all a favour and DON'T procreate. : ltrls987
  • ^Someone should mark this uninformative. : 1trudA
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  Shadows caused by artificial, strong light sources are always hard. Only lights with wide reflectors or l... : matthaeus
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    Actually, that is incorrect. The hardness of a shadow is relative to the apparent size of the light so... : Serpico74
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      Wow, I think he bit off more than he could chew :) Thanks for the explanation, interesting stuff! : rossimo
      • No problem :) : Serpico74
    • In addition to that, shadow hardness is also affected by the distance of the object casting the shadow an... : Serpico74
• Doom3 looked great 2 years ago, on then current hardware. I wish id had more artist so they could releas... : bbq gibs
• Yeah, I am most looking forward to Deus Ex 2. Half-Life 2 and Doom 3... well, I will have to wait and se... : Selfist

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  You're just bitter because you sucked. : johnny rotten
  • Don't hate me because I have bad parents. :-/ : The Daikatana
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  I certainly don't think it was the best game "ever", especially after reinstalling it today and playing i... : liquidlies
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    That's another thing that was a minor annoyance for me. The hype machine was in full swing when I finally... : The Daikatana
    • I think that's where people become too critical. When you break it down, every game has similarities to ... : gyvoji
  • You know, puzzles in FPS games are ALL contextual though. You can break down goals in ANY FPS games into... : sevogajre
• You're entitled to your opinion, but you're certainly in the minority. Half-Life wasn't perfect, but in ... : EvilDolemite
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  The multiplayer halflife sucked a$$ but the single player was fairly good. I figure it was on par with Un... : beefcake01
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    I'd argue that Half-Life's singleplayer was light years beyond Unreal's. Unreal's first four hours were ... : EvilDolemite
    • I'd agree with this, Half-Life had such a compelling plot and really pulled off the whole government secr... : narby--
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  Well the single player alone doesn't necessarily form that description, the fact it's lasted 5 years and ... : narby--
  • While I agree Half-Life rocked and all, to you saying that sales numbers are a proof of this, I present t... : bigimp
• I don't think it was the best game ever, but I did like it alot and am looking forward to the sequel. : spl
• It wasn't the best game ever, no. It was a damned fine game...really really impressive; but personally I... : Vorlonesque

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• well the publisher is probabaly the one who is most strict about such things (valve may or may not care) ... : ease_one
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  it's only a screenshot : jvox
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    I'm not complaining about the screenshots, I'm complaining about the general principle behind it... : bigimp
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      And what is that principle? That Valve shouldn't approve special shots for news organizations? CNN didn't... : Cpt. Baseballbat
      • Yes, that principle in particular. Screenshots should not be owned by anyone. It's that ownership that hi... : bigimp
• I tend to agree. Why should sites like shacknews and bluesnews have to wait another four days to post an... : dawurz
• i believe CNN has broken gaming NDAs before. i wish i could remember what game, (maybe it was dnf?) but ... : ermac
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  the majority of disallowed screenshots were ripped from a print magazine, it was the magazine that was th... : bongsmith
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    The fact that those magazines have those screenshots before us is the problem in itself. : bigimp
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      so if i put up scans of only a picture...one that was in every magazine with no PCG or CGW symbols what c... : johngloid
      • Well, first of all the quality would suck, so it wouldn't be as valuable as a real screenshot. Second of ... : bigimp

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  I think it's partly due to the fact that if you think back, PC gaming seemed much more glorious and excit... : wunderbred
  • Maybe it was just the *bang* of something new and different entertainment wise appearing, whereas now eve... : marku5
• I think its attributed to the general poor quality of fps gaming lately - over the last year or two there... : marku5
• No the video game industry as a whole - PC gaming and consoles together - is bigger than the movie indust... : Carnivac
• That's a popular misconception. Gaming in total brings in more than movie box office. However, DVD, pay p... : Fred Garvin

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• I agree with this post. : wunderbred

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• Their own 100% in house developed "Source" engine. : gl2 drivers

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• yes. it's very cool. I wish it affected world geometry as well as character and weapon models : psychobean
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  What is this HD pack you speak of?? :D : -dm7
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    Half-Life HD Pack. Automatically upgrade all your Half-Life weapons and characters with new high definiti... : Ryno
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      Can you download that HD pack separately? And also will it work for OP Force, and the normal Half life ga... : -dm7
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        op force has it's own models, the upgrade works on regular half life changes the mp5 to a m16, barny/s... : -=kodiak=-
        • changes the mp5?! what the shit is that?! : grendel
      • No you can't download it, but you can get Blue Shift for like $10 at say amazon.com, worth it. : Carnivac

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  did a pig just fly over....? : Katarn3279
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    yes : SERIOUSly the SAMe
    • And it's highly moddable too! : Aubrey Philipsz
• sweet! : Do_Or_Die
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  TF2 wil more than likely be an addon like TFC or maybe even an expansion of HL2. I don't really see it a... : Crimsonbeak
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    I know one thing for sure, with all the developement time on it, they'd be insane to put it out for free. : kingdepork
    • That dev time has been this though. : Normality
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  at this point does anybody still care about tf2? : syn0r
  • Yessir, i personally do. : kingdepork
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    absolutely. I loved TFC. : malloc
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      then load up q3f and go to town : rosewood
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        q3f never touched TFC.. : Lethal01
        • Agree. Weapons Factory wasn't much better either. In fact TFC is pretty much my favorite online game of a... : baron calamity
  • We probably can't even imagine what they've done with the game... I'm sure they changed the game a lot si... : esky
  • yes. yes. we. do. : Antilles_Prime
  • up until the point bf1942 was released. Now, not at all. : Dimmona
• What is this strange substance that appeared in my underwear...? : Omaha

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  I agree, I think the shadows will be better and more "correct" in doom3, but the lighting in hl2 seems to... : gl2 drivers
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    Yes just watching the hard black shadow pixel by pixel invade the doom guy's face turns me off. I love t... : kingdepork
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      yeah they said they worked a lot to get the lighting just right in the magazine articles. : johngloid
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        And i think it's much more beautiful looking than Doom3. With Doom3 only being a small step up technolog... : kingdepork
        • and you get all this from screenshots. gj man :) : boomstickah
• These days it's not the screenies that matter (so much) but seeing the game in motion is something else. ... : SlamDunk
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  Is it dynamically shadowed at all? In non-static images shadows make ALL the difference. If you're ... : Sebastian Sylvan
  • Its hard to tell conclusively from the scans. Some of seen look like there definitely is NO dynamic shad... : johnny rotten
  • It appears to be a hybrid of different shadowing methods, or different methods of shadowing depending on ... : gl2 drivers
• the lighting in doom3 does not seem 100% natural but it seems 100% consistant. I think the fact that it ... : ease_one
• I think the same thing about Halo2 : jvox

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• add a new computer into that mix and YUP! : johnny rotten

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  1994 pc ~ 966 million 1995 pc ~1.4 billion console ~1.7 billion 1996 pc 1.7 billion console 2 billion ... : baron calamity
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    well u still have a billion and a half PCs. Someone will make games for it. Joe Sixpack can play his cons... : junkstyle
    • Well, if the DRM/Palladium ever get to work i think we will see lots of money in PC Games, yes.. killing ... : -TKF-
  • PC Sales slumped recently due to the console launches. The PC has the long haul in mind though. Of cou... : Schnapple
  • thats more a trend of market/economy health, not pc gaming health. Your console numbers dip as well, sav... : johnny rotten

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  haha i did too. that was so cool at the time. : junkstyle
  • at the time? I still load it up occasionally. : lapdance
• heh. I actually dig how the developer names fade in and out just like a movie. So good. : johnny rotten
• It's so awesome I based my review around it: http://www.shacknews.com/reviews/review.x?r=1&gid=231&id=95... : Carnivac

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• nuked by chinese : Rapid 99