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E3 - Game Sites Get Hands-On With Half Life 2

Posted by simoniker on from the hype-the-funk dept.

metrazol writes "Over at GameSpy, they have a first hands-on preview of much anticipated, speculated, flamed, leaked sequel Half-Life 2. Hint: They love it." There's also a preview at GameSpot, and another over at IGN PC - elsewhere, The Inquirer notes that "ATI will bundle [Valve-developed] Counter Strike 2 with its X800PRO/XT cards", and CNN Money interviews the new President of Half-Life 2 publishers VU Games, who says Half-Life 2 is "still realistic" for a 2004 release (Valve are now saying that "the game should be out by this summer"), and argues: "The PC is far more profitable for us than the console... you're not playing platform fees to manufacturers, for one thing."

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  1. Who cares? by Kanon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone really care anymore? It's not like these previews are telling us anything new of substance.

    1. Re:Who cares? by Kanon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm not saying that I'm not looking forward to it. I am. I'm guessing it will be a very good game but I've read a number of previews of HL2 over the last month and they all say exactly the same things and don't really tell us anything we didn't know last year before the code leak.

      I guess I'd be more excited if they told us something we haven't heard before or was a little unexpected.

  2. ATi by jbfaninmo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wait a second, ATi is going to bundle CS2 with there new cards? What about all of those HL2 vouchers they gave out with the last generation of cards?

    Man ATi is a smart company. They are giving away these little paper coupons that people have to hold on to for at least good year before they are worth anything, but people feel like they are saving $50. Hell, they might never be worth anything. Whoever came up with that deserves at least, "Corporate Minion of the Month."

    1. Re:ATi by aliens · · Score: 2, Insightful

      They'll still be honoring those coupons. It sucks to have to hold on to them, but I'm sure ATI is just as pissed at Valve as the customer is at ATI/Valve.

      I mean honestly, you do not ink a major corporate deal knowing you can't deliver. I don't know what Valve was smoking to stick to last september's release date up until the very absolute last second. The interviews with Gabe even talk about how it wasn't released because it just wasn't finished, not because of the code leak.

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  3. shame by OmniVector · · Score: 2, Insightful

    shame we have little to no chance of getting a half-life 2 mac port since the whole game depends heavily on direct-x 9.

    oh well, i'll happily give money to the companies that care about cross-platform development (id software & epic games).

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