Doom 3 vs. Half Life 2

Thanks to Laurie W, who writes "Sudhain.com has a great comparison of D3 vs. HL2 (funny, too)." From the article: "Since Half Life 2 was released this week, I thought it'd make a good time to take the two games head to head and see which came out on top. I've spent a few hours in the beginning of each, playing through the first few levels. Although I haven't completed either, I've spent enough time in each (I think) to develop a feel for what the later sections of each game will be like. Given that each has been fairly consistent thus far, it'd take a major shift for my opinion of either to change significantly."

Comments

Re:Oh, come on

[ZosX]

As much as I disliked AI, it should be noted that the "weird alien thing" at the end of the movie was actually fellow robots that have evolved over thousands of years, aparantly outliving humans for whatever reasons. AI was indeed a crappy movie, but not because the robot life forms discovered him like an ancient relic. I personally do not think that AI ending any earlier would have made it any better. In fact that scene at the end is so necessary to give the movie *some* sort of closure, and without that the story would have absolutely none.

The robots win, evolve and take over the world. It really isn't that confusing.

Re:Oh, come on

[brkello]

Wow, I had no idea about those aliens being evolved AI. It really didn't explain that or maybe I missed it...how did you know this was the case? To me, the movie would have been better if *SPOILER FOLLOWS* he just dies under water looking at the statue...not the stupid I'll recreate your mom for a day from hair, but even though we can bring her back to life, it's only for 24 hours craziness...it really ruined the whole movie for me...whether or not those aliens were future AI or just normal aliens:P

Re:Oh, come on

[KDan]

Maybe you need to buy some sort of hi-tech equipment from your local pharmacy (hint: it consists of a stick with a bit of cotton on it) to clean your ears then. They say that fairly clearly in the voice-off and the long speeches.

Agreed that the first two thirds of AI would have made it a better movie, but that's far from making it a "bad" movie because they left that third in (which they probably did because it was in Kubrick's script and since he died before filming it I guess Spielberg didn't want to change it - Kubrick would have had a better chance to pull off such an heterogeneous movie, cf. Full Metal Jacket).

The movie was, regardless, an excellent movie.

Daniel

Re:like saying...

[RealityMogul]

I rented "Dude, Where's My Car" and only watched the first 10 minutes of it. Do you think I even care how the ending was???