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Half-Life 2 Submitted to VU For Approval

Posted by Zonk on from the beware-of-flying-pigs dept.

Dreadlord writes "After years of rumors, leaks, and delays, Neowin reports that the release candidate for Half-Life 2 has been sent to VU Games for approval. Valve's director of marketing confirmed the story to GameSpot yesterday. "Yes, the release candidate went to VUG yesterday," he said. First words on the submission came from Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve, "The RC went to VU yesterday," read Newell's one-line post on the hl2fallout.com forums."

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  1. I agree by johannesg · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Maybe it's just me, but I always thought the real star of Half Life was Black Mesa. It's just such a gloomy, depressing, yet realistic and intriguing place. I cannot imagine getting quite that same "help I'm all alone under a kilometer of rock and concrete with just monsters for company and noone cares and the only ones that do want me dead" feeling when playing a game in a city, under the open sky.

    I always thought the best parts of Half Life were the earlier levels, before you get out into the light of day. You start descending into darkness. Pretty quickly after the game proper starts you are teased with being on the surface, but you are forced back down. Then you get the long trek through the missile silo with its nasty yet excellent monster. After you get back to the surface it is still a good game, but it no longer reaches the lofty heights it had reached before.

    I agree that Doom 3 was not as spectacular as we could hope for. I think it was the pacing (too regular) and predictability (far too predictable). Real horror works best when you _don't_ know what is in front of you. In Doom 3 you are guaranteed to have two monsters teleporting in and another one appearing from a sliding panel behind you.