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Newest Half-Life 2 Movies Impress
Thanks to several readers for pointing to the release of a second trailer ('The Docks') from Half-Life 2, via Valve's Steam content delivery system, as well as via GamersHell, IGN, 3D Gamers, and the obligatory BitTorrent link, courtesy GameTab. This follows the first movie, named 'G-Man,' that was posted a couple of days back -- all of these new Bink-encoded executable movies are direct-feed parts of the large shakycam E3 movie we mentioned a few weeks back.
actually, i was talking to the game programmers at e3, and watching the game run on a system similar to your's. pretty much what he said was that the textures etc that they had were ridiculusly high res, and that the whole game was desigened to scale down graphicly to whatever you have, it just won't be as pretty on a GF 1 as on a new high end pc. and seeing it RUN on a plasma monitor, I can tell you, it's worth the upgrade!
-and occasionaly a giant moose.
Valve sure knows how to publicise this product well.
Releasing heaps of high-quality video every so often and using their Steam service to distribute it (which gets a heck of a lot of CS beta players (and people who were too cheap to buy HL 5 years ago)).
Valve have stolen the spotlight from Doom3 and will impress everybody, no matter what id software pulls from it's magical hat.
I just hope that id isn't dumb enough to release D3 at the same time that Valve releases HL2 (which they hinted at last yeat). In a 1v1, there is no competition.
Valve have stated them many times, just do a search for it. I did and the first site I found was an interview with Gabe Newell (Managing Director for Half-Life 2) where he states the min specs are a P3 800 and a DX6 (e.g. TNT) graphics card. I've seen 733 mentioned elsewhere but the difference isn't exactly a huge one.
The Source engine's been feature complete since Q4 last year so they should have a pretty good idea of its performance by now.
Seems people are missing the point indeed. One is to get some stress testing of Steam going. Another is to give people high resolution videos to really be able to appreciate the graphics. I've seen the 600MB QT a ton of times, and these new clips is like another world when it comes to seeing just what the engine's capable of.
For the whiners, Valve are going to keep releasing clips until they've run out of E3 footage. They'll then start releasing previously unseen footage. They posted this promise in the Steam forums.
They have. And it looks awesome. It's just that, frankly. The Half-Life 2 stuff looks MORE awesome, and is overshadowing it.
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Is there going to be a counter strike 2 with the half life 2 engine? Will it come with a built in wallhack?