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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: ooseven on April 23, 2003, 01:45:12 AM
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look i know this should go in Hardware / software forum but seiing that this i now the most popular forum , i thought it would be best posted here... esp due to the very nature of the game.
anyhooo here they are.
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Gman
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more to come
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some larger scans, if they don\'t work then just copy and paste the url\'s into a new browser window.
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2 more
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Here is some more screens.. (http://http://www.half-life2.tk)
At long last! The sequel to the best PC First Person Shooter of all time has been announced at a press conference with Valve in NY this afternoon.
Having been present at this meeting of developers and media, I got to witness the first running preview and in-game demo to leave the walls of Valve\'s Design Studios since development began way back when, after the release of Half-Life. And I must say, I was no less than awestruck!
At a glance, you could mistake this game for a DVD movie. The Half-Life 2 engine, built from the ground up, and boasting cinematic quality graphics at blistering frame rates, looks like it will easily topple Doom3\'s engine before ID even releases it!
The Dev team showed us a demo of a working alpha just to prove that the game\'s cinematic-style graphics were in-fact, being rendered real time. It was nothing short of amazing, especially considering that it was cutting 70fps in highest detail on a 1.7ghz processor and Geforce 4 Ti4200!
"We\'ve tried to accommodate for the widest range of users possible. We felt that allowing gamers with lower end PCs to play with the highest settings would greatly increase the multiplayer potential and encourage the online community to really get behind Half-Life 2." commented Willam Sykes, source programmer.
As some people may also know, the tactical aspect of Half-Life 2 has been greatly increased over its predecessor. Weapons are now fully functional with gun jams, dirty barrels, overheating and weight. For example, in any in-game mission, one is expected to clear bullet casing jams, hold weapons steady (counteracting against weight) and perform maintenance tasks such as stripping, cleaning and polishing of weapons.
The Team are excited with the new tactical aspect which includes missions of the following varieties:
Radio operator missions where you take on the role of \'behind the main lines\' support crew, skills in tuning radio frequencies and counter-acting for static will be essential in giving the fighting troops accurate bearings on targets
Co-ordinating scouting missions into unknown regions. Again, these require the player to stay at base with a radio and satellite uplink, communicating with fighting soldiers during battles.
Weapon Maintenance missions are completed before every main mission. In these preparation segments, players must ensure their firearms are fully functional and well kept. Failure to successfully maintain one\'s weapon reults in demotion and \'less action\' in main missions.
Of course the above is only a TASTE of whats to come in the retail package. Expect a lot of the features that made HL1 so popular, like the adventure aspect and of course, slaughtering a LOT of ultra high resolution baddies! While I looked on at valve\'s demo, I thought it a shame that these baddies were ceasing to exist by Gordon\'s well-maintained firearm, as they were so extremely detailed it was a pleasure to watch them! The models were so realistic in-fact, that whilst watching the demo, I noticed the following:
All models have rising and falling chests/areas where lungs are used (this is helpful when you are unsure if enemies are dying, dead, sleeping or pretending!
All models are fully destructable in an unlimited number of ways. Say goodbye to shooting the whole head off an enemy. Depending where you hit it, the skull will fragment accordingly, and differently every time!
The sheer detail is ridiculous: actual hair/fur (not textures), sweat, dirt, cuts (can be made anywhere and of different severity Eg: a cut on the skin, right up to a limb coming off or an opening into the abdominal area etc)
Along with the overwhelming abundance of eye-candy, this game has quite a few never-before-tried features incorperated into the adventure.
Players may be at first shocked to find that Valve has taken the standard mouse look of FPS and added in a \'turn head\' type feature. This feature allows the player to look around while keeping the body and weapon aimed in a particular direction, and is controlled by the mouse (as are the body movements). This system, for example, will allow the player to observe an environment around them whilst still keeping a weapon trained on the many prisoners that are taken during missions.
Keeping in line with the new weapon detail systems (cleaning, unjamming, maintaining etc) a sidebar will be added that will allow the player to access his weapon cleaning kit quickly by toggling and then using the mouse to grab and apply tools to clean the firearms. After battles, it is quite common to \'take 5\' and make use of the weapon maintenance kit in a quiet corner. The most impressive feature of the weapon maintenance kit is that the player will take control of the tools with the mouse. For example, when cleaning the barrel of a firearm, the player must move the mouse back and forth to move the wad inside the barrel. Players must also take care not to spill cleaning solvents with the mouse when applying them. Move the mouse too fast and you\'ll waste some good fluid.
Our first look at Half-Life 2 was an exciting experience to say the least. The team here at Deepgame Online News are looking forward to the inevitable flow of screenshots and movies that will spill forth from Valve\'s Studios over the coming months, and will keep you up to date with all the latest developments as the title progresses.
Keep an eye out this Friday as we will be releasing the first screenshots of Half-Life 2 for all to marvel at.
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I\'m probably gonna have to get a new computer if I\'m gonna want to play this. :(
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my pc shouldnt have a problem with this game! I have a 1.1Ghz processor and the ATI radeon 9700 Pro! YAY!!!!
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running it at 800x600 16 bit color?
yep, no problem
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WHAT MAGAZINE IS THIS FROM!!! I NEED TO BUY A COPY!!!!!!!!
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not to shure i read something about it not being alowed to go to press until the 27th of April or something.
i think its an American mag though.
p.s.
this screen shot from "city 17" looks to be like a space elevator
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also if you look at the Barney close up (new one) you will see that his red and yellow armb band has been blured out.... possible spoiler maybe ?
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update its PC Gamer and i have read that they have asked some sites to remove the screen shots due to potential problems with Value.
So i\'ll leave them up for another 5 hours.
then i\'ll prob\' delete them.
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Look\'s great!
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Can\'t wait
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Sounds like it will revolutionise the genre
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and we can expect this when?
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You\'ll probably need to buy another PC by the time Valve finishes it. I know they say they have it running on a 1.7ghz, but I\'m sure they\'ll think of 50 more features that need to be included, as they shoot for their 2007 release date. Whatever happened to Team Fortress 2?
I don\'t hate Valve; just became a little cynical over the years. I\'m sure I will dig the game whenever it\'s ready. I just hope they don\'t overdo it with useless stuff like gun cleaning kits. I honestly don\'t understand how they think that\'s a feature that will attract gamers... Seems boring as hell.
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my god, that looks great... amazing, cannot wait for this game to come out
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I should probably play Half-Like 1 sometime.
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Looking good.
BTW: Any word on the new CounterStrike?
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Odd. The company I work at does some ship out printing for PC Gamer and I had not looked at the newest issue\'s stuff. Damn, I missed a chance at the first shots of Half-Life 2.
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The only PC game I even care about.
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Looks amazing, I should rent Half-Life 1 for PS2 to understand this one.
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I don\'t hold a grudge against valve for Team Fortress 2. Chances are, TF2 will be a mod developed by valve, like the first TF for Half Life, for Half Life 2. If that\'s the case, we won\'t have anything to complain about. From what was said, it sounds like that\'s their goal with the whole ease of program built into the engine for mod makers. I think we can guarantee a new version of CS, new TF, and probably another DoD mod. We shall see though because I\'m sure we won\'t have a long time to wait for this one. It looks like they learned with TF2 and are now only releasing screens because the game is close to being done.
Aside from that, I\'m not very interested in the gun cleaning stuff. I know they\'re probably trying to make the game more real, but what do I care about cleaning my M3? Are they saying a round of explosives going off in an unclean gun is a worry now instead of the hordes of beasts constantly attacking Earth? I mean seriously here, we have enough to worry about for a game of this calibre.
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if you go to http://www.planethalflife.com they have a small thing about it. Guess what.........it will be at the ATI Booth at E3!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAH Nvidia gets the boot! valve knows who has the better GFX card obviously!
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