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

Posted by simoniker on Monday May 10, 2004 @08:31PM 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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Who cares? by Kanon · 2004-05-10 21:39 · 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 · 2004-05-10 22:29 · 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.