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Half-Life 2 Coverage Appearing

Posted by simoniker on from the agonisingly-slow-disclosure dept.

scottcha+4 writes "When it was released in November 1998, Half-Life redefined the action gaming genre by combining fast-paced action and an intelligent, intense story. Players quickly began clamoring for a sequel, but developer Valve Software responded with silence. Five years later, the call for that sequel is as loud as ever. Get the details via this CNN story." The CNN coverage has a couple of amazing-looking screenshots and some brief details, but there's going to be a whole lot more after magazines like this arrive in stores and the press embargo is fully lifted.

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  1. Name of the game... by dbirchall · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Half-Life 2 == Whole Life, but "Life" was already taken by a cellular automata game, and "Whole Life" sounded too insurance-oriented.

  2. Just out of curiousity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is this section hidden from the majority of users? This is the first time I've seen the "games" section (in all of its purple and black glory), and the 3 previous articles have < 10 comments on them. What gives?

  3. For the IQ lacking out there. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    HL2 is NOT based on anyother engine.

    valve started work on TF2, which was planned to be based on the HL engine. They then started the project and then foundout that the HL engine had too many limitations. They then started work on a fresh new engine. But, alas, along came Battlefield1942, which is VERY VERY similar to what valve had planned TF2 to be (except TF2 wouldnt be set in WW2) so i understand they pushed aside the idea of TF2 and started on HL2.

    as for the cheating problem, they better have written some VERY solid code, because VAC is just bullshit...

    thedoublehelix