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Counter-Strike on Source Engine, Codename Gordon On Steam?

Posted by simoniker on from the metal-headcrab dept.

Thanks to ShackNews for its report indicating Half-Life 2's multiplayer mode includes Counter-Strike running on the Source Engine, and "will be available at the same time as when Half-Life 2 ships", which is said to be "this summer, although no specific date was given." It's also noted that "Half-Life 1 is also ported over to the Source engine and will be available at the same time as when Half-Life 2 ships." Elsewhere, Steampowered.com has announced that Codename Gordon is being released 'soon' for PC via Steam, Valve Software's "broadband platform for direct software delivery and content management." Codename Gordon, as previously covered on Slashdot, is an initially fan-created, Metal Slug-inspired game that "...takes players through dozens of levels inspired by Half-Life and Half-Life 2, challenges players to a slew of puzzles, and showcases many of the familiar creatures in an all new, 2 dimensional playing field." But is the previous assertion that "the game gets out 100% before HL2" still true? The race is on. Update: 05/12 22:31 GMT by S : Slightly more important Half-Life 2 news added.

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  1. Re:CS not necessarily the ONLY MP option by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    yeah i really want to see the manipulator gun in classic DM style...although the CS2 souce video looks cool....

    get it while it's still hot and /. flood free...

    http://static.hugi.is/users/skarsnik/

  2. Re:Missed the boat by fireduck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They spent too long on HL2. It should have been released already. They've missed the boat bigtime.

    Funny thing about this, the original HL was released about a year too late. and it was released on a modified Q1 engine (when Q2 had been out for a year or so). And yet, 5 years later, here we are still playing it and the various mods that have been released for it.

    Valve hit gold with HL. More importantly, they hit platinum when they decided to have very open exchanges with the mod makers and the gaming community. There's reason a reason you find an order of magnitude more players on HL than any other game (you add up the total number of people playing the 39 games below HL on gamespy, and you're still less than the number playing HL).

    Will it be worth the wait? Probably. Can it live up to the hype? Probably not. The "amazement" of HL can't be duplicated. An intro level on a train just won't be as exciting the 2nd time around no matter how much more beautiful it is. But it sounds like there's enough fun new toys (physics) that we're gonna be very entertained. Since it sounds like its shipping with most (or all) current mods ported over to the new engine, every HL gamer will upgrade.

    And when will we stop hearing hype about it?

    The funny thing about this comment, is that HL2 wasn't even official until this time last year. Valve basically dropped the bomb at E3 by announcing the game. So any hype that has been generated is only a year old (or was been fan driven by unsubstantiated speculation prior to any official announcement).