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Half-Life Episode 1 Gold, Details on 2 and 3
Gamespot has the word that the first of the Half-Life 2 episodes has gone gold. They also have details on the upcoming Episodes 2 and 3. Episode 1 is to be released on the 1st of June. From the article: "In addition to two new multiplayer modes and the Lost Coast tech demo, Episode One will sport a preview of its sequel, Half-Life 2: Episode Two. The expansion, the existence of which was revealed in February, will add another four- to six-hour mini-campaign to the Half-Life 2 saga when it is released later this year. Previously, the game had no official release window or date. Today's gold announcement also was the first official confirmation that a third Half-Life 2 episodic update is in development. Like Episode Two, Valve divulged little in the way of information about Episode Three, saying only that it was the last 'in a trilogy ... that will conclude by Christmas of 2007.'"
No, no! Half-life 2: A New Hope was Episode 4.
That was Episode IV. In Episode One, we follow the G-Man as a ten-year-old.
...and I'm looking forward to playing through Episode One (an odd name if ever there were one).
It could be worse. They could've called it something really ridiculous, like The Phantom Menace.
You can't win, Darth. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Steam does no such thing. I downloaded HL2 from a torrent, installed it under Cedega in Linux, played the single player story, installed a couple of mods, decided I would rather just wait for UT2007 or Savage 2, deleted it.
Linux Gaming ++
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Half-Life 2 was episodic as well. You would play through one 'short' episode, and then have to wait a month or so until the next one was released. Oh no, wait, that was the loading screen.
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