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Half-Life 2 Panoramics

Posted by Zonk on Monday May 23, 2005 @07:23AM from the interactive-shiny dept.

rgovostes writes "VRMag, an online panoramic magazine, has QuickTime VR scenes from Half-Life 2. The corresponding article, Half Life 2: A Panoramic Approach, explains how the images were made and relates photographic elements with the game's rendering engine."

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First Story In A Game Ever! by Blackwulf · 2005-05-23 08:00 · Score: 3, Funny

From TFA:
In 1998, when Half Life was first published, it was the first storytelling game of the entertainment history;

Apparently nobody ever tried to tell a story in a game before 1998!
Re:What's the point? by Solder+Fumes · 2005-05-23 08:13 · Score: 2, Funny

The funny part is that in order to view these things smoothly, you almost need a system powerful enough to play HL2 anyway.