New HL2 screens.

[MetalMilitia]

All of em (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=20440)

http://www.worthplaying.com/press/155/hl2_image01b.jpg

http://www.worthplaying.com/press/155/hl2_image06b.jpg

http://www.worthplaying.com/press/155/hl2_image13c.jpg

http://www.worthplaying.com/press/155/hl2_image15c.jpg

http://www.worthplaying.com/press/155/hl2_image15b.jpg

oh yea and also....

Vivendi Universal Games is expected to formally announce a November 26th release date for Half-Life 2 in Europe shortly, along with a US release three days earlier, after informing UK retail partners of the date this week.

yay

[MetalMilitia]

There is a review in the dutch version of PC gameplay. Unfortunatly i cant read dutch but from what i can be bothered to translate it has no multiplayer deathmatch : /
Overall it scored.
Gameplay: 55/60
Graphics: 18/20
[some other word i cant understand]:17/20

Overall: 90%

Here is the last page of the review for anyone who can read dutch...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/pcgameplay_8_exported.jpg

[darkvare]

the characters look creeply realistic

[HickMan]

I wish I had a good computer

[Anonymous]

All of those screens except for the squad picture really suck.

[Anonymous]

Okay the one with the fire is cool too, but only cause of the spray of blood ;<

[Helm]

Half-Life 2! Now 30% more like a bad starship troopers movie!

[Anonymous]

all the shots in that dutch thing are good, though

though I don't get why you'd be on the mean streets of harlem in this game, but yeah, ok

[Ant10708]

"voor HL3"

A third installment :/

[AChimp]

My Doom 3 screenshots looked better than those. If that's seriously what HL2 looks like, a lot of people are going to be disappointed. Small wonder, though, since it was supposed to come out over a year ago.

[iron mitchell]

i think they look pretty great, especially considering i always thought the wonder of half-life was in it's gameplay and online community.
i'd suck a horsecock to get a gnarly-ass update to TFC.

[MetalMilitia]

My Doom 3 screenshots looked better than those. If that's seriously what HL2 looks like, a lot of people are going to be disappointed. Small wonder, though, since it was supposed to come out over a year ago.

The HL2 textures are sharper than Doom3s imo but doom has more advanced lighting and shadows.
You also need to rember that HL2 has alot of large outdoor areas which would not work well on a doom3 like engine. Also the physics engine in HL2 (havoc 2) is more advanced than dooms which should count for alot when it comes to vehicles and objects.

[Crying Baby Jesus]

Am I the only one who noticed the coolness of the dead guy in the chair with his face burnt off?

And theres a gravity gun.

Wow the sys requierments are alot lover than i expected.

[MetalMilitia]

Yea the games requirements aren't really all that high. The beta ran just fine on a GF4 ti4200 abiet no DX9 stuff but looked good anyway.
Should be a kick ass game, not to mention all the mods already in development.

[Eternal_Champion]

I've got the HL2 footage disc and some of the videos are amazing. The screenshots dont do it any good really
Also although it has no multiplayer deathmatch there will be a new counterstrike that runs on the HL2 engine

[MetalMilitia]

Well CS:S will be a bonus but i would have loved to use the gravity gun and vehicles etc in multiplayer. Also the welding gun which allows you to 'weld' objects together, you can make big barrell structures or weld extra defences to the dune buggey, it kicks ass.
But i guess it will only take about a month for someone to make a MP mod.

[MetalMilitia]

Full PC Gamer review scans (http://www.clandv.com/files/HL2/)

Wow 96%

[eggyolk]

What are the specs on this bad boy?

[MetalMilitia]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/specs.gif

You shoudl be ok with a 1.6+ghz CPU, GF4+ GFX card and 512 or over ram.

[Crying Baby Jesus]

I heard that if you weld a door closed and the enemies cant break through they will use eachother as a ladder to get into a window on a higher floor or get one of those War of the worlds thingys to blast the walls out of the building!

[eggyolk]

omg :eek

[EisigerBiskuit]

I thought it would be cool to do all that in CS but it sucks so far because I can't lift anything, like a bucket, with my bare hands. I'd love to place that kind of crap over a bomb.

By the way, why are those people in the bottom-left in barrels?

[Crying Baby Jesus]

prototype headcrab protection?

I'm wierded ouy as to why you have A squad:(

Its looking like Super Freedomfighters but with Aliens not Russians.

Anyone seen pics of the NEW bullsquids?

[MetalMilitia]

I heard that if you weld a door closed and the enemies cant break through they will use eachother as a ladder to get into a window on a higher floor or get one of those War of the worlds thingys to blast the walls out of the building!

umm i dont think you can weld doors shut. The welder, if it remains unchanged from the beta, simply fires a blob of 'solder' with alt fire then if you drag another objects with solder on into contact with the aformentiond 'solder' then they will attach to each other. It can however be broken with enough force.
I think the 'climbing though higher windows' thing is probably not true, The AI is good but not that good. Also the 'war of the worlds thing' I think it called a strider, and they can only blast though specific walls. The source engine does not have any type of geo-mod technology.

[MetalMilitia]

I'm wierded ouy as to why you have A squad:(


Well the story, from what is known, goes that the country is bieng opressed my a military force known as the colombine. The squad which you fight with are freedom fighters trying to overthrow said opressors.

[Crying Baby Jesus]

Its looking like Super Freedomfighters but with Aliens not Russians.

[Anonymous]

If the climbing through high windows thing is in the game, it's probably in the form of a scripted event.

[MetalMilitia]

You can purchase HL2 over Steam tomorrow (thursday 8th)... but only CounterStrike: Source (full version) will be playable until HL2 is released, which should be soon.
As soon as Valve say so you will be able to unlock your HL2 and start playing.

[the_dudefather]

god damn i want this game bad.

crossing fingers / toes/ hairs / teeth for november release

(goes and plays beta and dreams....)

[Captain Goodtimes]

Why can't i find this the least bit intresting?

[MetalMilitia]

Becasue you suck?

This game is going to be brilliant. It got 96% in PC Gamer and 97% in PC Zone.

[whoreable]

the new cs screens look painfully mediocore.

[MetalMilitia]

the new cs screens look painfully mediocore.

High res textures, DX9 shader effects, havoc 2 physics. Tis good stuff. Screenshots dont do it justice.

[MetalMilitia]

US PcGamer review is on the web now

The US version of PC Gamer gave the game a 98% and proclaimed it the "Best Game Ever Made."

:eek

[AChimp]

I think it's "Combine" not "Colombine." :lol

[MetalMilitia]

WOW i just got CS: S. Its fucking insane. HIGHLY RECOMENDED. Office is amazing. Il take a few screens in a min.

[MetalMilitia]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/cs_office0025.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/cs_office0003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/cs_office0004.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/cs_office0010.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/test_speakers0000.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/cs_havana0001.jpg

btw *cough* The torrent on suprnova works online*cough*

[Captain Goodtimes]

GAWD, why don't you just marry this fucking game.

[MetalMilitia]

Hush your mouth. This game rocks.

[AChimp]

Aight, those screenshots don't look as bad as the ones from the magazines. What are you running it on?

[MetalMilitia]

9800 Pro - 1024x768, high settings, 2xAA 2xAF - 50fps average.

[whoreable]

yea ill admit that the screens you took look more exciting than the ones i have seen. although its retarded that all the maps are just remakes. it would be nice to some some new stuff

[MetalMilitia]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/cs_office0012.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/176659.9/cs_office0014.jpg

[BlueOatmeal]

Getting raped by 12 year old boys in CS isn't fun at all. I should be the one raping all those sweet, tender 12 year old boys.

[HickMan]

lol :( They didn't add any new maps? :(

[MetalMilitia]

not yet. they haven't even finished converting all the old ones.

[HickMan]

That sucks :(

[the_dudefather]

OMG OMG you can shoot the grahics cards and cpu fans out of the dell-ish pcs and you can shoot mugs fierce creatures style

CS:source has just re-invented my enthusiasm for half-life 2

[MetalMilitia]

Indeed. The office level rocks. i spent about 20 mins just walkign round blasting stuff with the machine gun.

[eggyolk]

That's all fine and dandy, but one of the reasons Half-Life and all it's mods were so popular was the fact that anybody's computer could run the game.

[whoreable]

not really, you forget how long ago half life came out. there where alot of people at the time that had graphics cards that couldnt even support opengl. I remeber at the time when cs first came out i was a badass becasue i had smooth graphics and high speed internet when so few others did.

[AChimp]

Yeah, me too. I was one of the only people around who could run HL back in 1998.

I hate it when people online bitch about how slow their 70ms ping is, when I remember when a 250ms ping was "grab onto your balls because they might fly off" fast. Fucking 12-year-olds ruin every good game. >:

[MetalMilitia]

I remember when a 250ms ping was "grab onto your balls because they might fly off" fast.

lmao!

[the_dudefather]

i used to be able to play return to castle wolfenstein well on my modem, but then people started to get eliteist and banned high pingers :(

[eggyolk]

not really, you forget how long ago half life came out. there where alot of people at the time that had graphics cards that couldnt even support opengl. I remeber at the time when cs first came out i was a badass becasue i had smooth graphics and high speed internet when so few others did.

1998?!