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PC Gamer Reviews Half-Life 2
SnprBoB86 writes "Planet HalfLife reports that latest issue of the UK PC Gamer been release with a review of Half-Life 2. The game scored a 96% (the same score as the original Half-Life and 6 points higher than Doom 3). This is just after Valve announced the Steam packages that will be available for purchase and that people who buy Half-Life 2 over Steam will be the first to play the final release of the new Counter-Strike: Source."
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I will give you the news on the Xbox version. there isn't one you are looking at at least a year or more before any progress on the version for xbox. HL2 for Xbox is not looking too good right now because valve wants to focus on the steam engine and in order to do that they have to hold off on any development of a port for any system. Besides lets face it I dont think there is any console out right now modified or otherwise that could handle any version of HL2 maybe they will wait till Xbox-2. Who knows?
The U.K. magazine PC Zone also reviewed HL2 in their latest issue.
They gave it a score of 97%, which is the best score they've ever given a game.
I work in the videogame mag industry, and you should be weary of any early review exclusives like this. I am not suggesting that Half Life 2 is a 50% instead of a 96%, but anytime a magazine snags a review copy of a game far earlier than everyone else, you can bet there's a price.
Heads up is all I'm saying.
Reminds me of the Div3r reviews that came out a while back (there was even a slashdot story about it http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/28/ 1745250&tid=127&tid=98&tid=10) is which exclusive reviews for the game were given under the condition that the game be given AT LEAST a 90% (or comparable) score. This completely defeats the purpose of having game reviews, as the people reviewing are REQUIRED to be impartial...
Rant not withstanding, I personally have been looking forward to this game for several years and have already upgraded my box in anticipation... HL was great and I have no reason to expect anything but the very best from valve.
It gives a recommended system spec based on their experience on the last page of the review (down the bottom). It says:
"2.4 GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, DX9 3D Card, net connection"
Not exactly specific, but it is there.