whodigs.com— Valve has announced that Half-Life 2: Episode 1, the first in a trilogy of episodes that will conclude by Christmas of 2007, has gone gold and will ship on June 1.
May 24, 2006View in Crawl 4
FEAR does not surpass HL2 except in very specific ways. The problem with FEAR was simply that it was hours of wandering through buildings and shooting guys that all look exactly the same. Every once in a while that evil little girl scared the s**t out of you, but the actual rest of the gameplay kinda sucked. 12 hours of going room to room killing thugs in masks is not my idea of a good time.Now, FEAR's faked up AI was indeed better, HL2 was very scripted in that respect. But that's about all you really got out of FEAR. On a system that can handle it, HL2's graphics still blows most everything else away. The Lost Coast demo shows what else can be done, and by god it's impressive on a machine with the power to do it. Admittedly, that's a $3000 machine, but still...But yes, I'm still looking forward to Crysis. Definitely.
manfrinMay 25, 2006
Yes, but this means it's actually finished.
ottoMay 25, 2006
FEAR does not surpass HL2 except in very specific ways. The problem with FEAR was simply that it was hours of wandering through buildings and shooting guys that all look exactly the same. Every once in a while that evil little girl scared the s**t out of you, but the actual rest of the gameplay kinda sucked. 12 hours of going room to room killing thugs in masks is not my idea of a good time.Now, FEAR's faked up AI was indeed better, HL2 was very scripted in that respect. But that's about all you really got out of FEAR. On a system that can handle it, HL2's graphics still blows most everything else away. The Lost Coast demo shows what else can be done, and by god it's impressive on a machine with the power to do it. Admittedly, that's a $3000 machine, but still...But yes, I'm still looking forward to Crysis. Definitely.
aqtransMay 25, 2006
Well don't blame the stuttering on the engine, or Valve at all...it sounds like your system isn't up to spec for the Source engine buddy.
chakzMay 25, 2006
Fix your pc before u bitch about valve, ever heard of formatting and not clicking FREERUSSIANBRIDESMP3SONG.EXE
rollo1337May 31, 2006
anyone know if you'll be able to play right at midnight june 1st?