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Gameguru Mania News - Aug,28 2004 -

Half-Life: Source screenshot - briefly
(hx) 05:31 PM CEST - Aug,28 2004 - Post a comment / read (10)

Half-Life Source

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HL2Fallout member, target_practice, recently e-mailed Valve's Gabe Newell for information on Half-Life: Source requesting a comparison shot between Half-Life and Half-Life Source. Doug Lombardi replied with these images (thanks HalfLife2.net).
"As you can see, despite the game not getting a complete overhaul like Counter-Strike: Source has, the game still looks considerably better in the Source engine. The noticable differences will be the addition of world and ragdoll physics, the shader system, dynamic lights and shadows."

In related news, for everyone chomping at the bit to get Half-Life 2, the pre-load for it has begun via Steam on Thursday 26th. No purchase is required to pre-load HL2, but is required to activate the game. Purchase options will be released soon. Then, the moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased Half-Life 2 via Steam will be authenticated and ready to start playing.The pre-load itself contains all the game data needed to play the game, but not the all-important executable file that actually runs the game, as that will be released when HL2 itself is considered released, and gamers receive it as part of purchasing HL2 via Steam. There's also fake "Half-Life 2 Goes Gold This Monday!" post on HL2Fallout forums. According to CS-Nation, the account was hacked and the gold notice is false.

last 10 comments:

CaptStar	(07:11 PM CEST - Aug,28 2004 )
The water looks so bad. I hope its fixed.

devilhood	(09:49 PM CEST - Aug,28 2004 )
CaptStar> The water looks so bad. I hope its fixed. The water looks alright, you just need your eyes checked.

CaptStar	(01:08 AM CEST - Aug,29 2004 )
Maybe you do you tea-drinking moron. I've talked to other people about it and they even think that it doesn't look good. Water in Half-Life 2 looks good, just not the water in that screenshot.

devilhood

(01:42 AM CEST - Aug,29 2004 )

wow, you've talked to other people about it *claps*
no need for the shitty attitude you twit.
I was just jokingly implying you are exaggerating how bad you think the water is, there might be a reason for the way it looks like that.
When I first saw the screenshot I thought, wow cool HL1 using the source engine, I finally get to rekindle the joy of playing the original Half-Life.
Then you have to come here and spoil it with your extremely high expectations of supremely realistic water that actually pours out of your monitor screen for you to drink :roll: lol

th4t1guy	(04:40 AM CEST - Aug,29 2004 )
Woo-hoo! Pixel-shaded air vents! Maybe Valve should redo the gameplay to something that doesn't induce narcolepsy.

devilhood

(06:10 AM CEST - Aug,29 2004 )

Just noticed that if you look at the brown wall texture, the original one is more random and looks slightly more interesting where-as the new one is actually the same texture over and over, then mirrored :?
That shows lazyness to be honest, oh and the water does look a bit weird CaptStar... you are right there, but I suppose maybe they were going for a 'strange' oily look because of the alien in the water perhaps? we'll all get to see the final result when it comes around anyways. Maybe the pic was taken with crappy hardware *an ATI card* haha sorry. lol
I'm currently an ATI user myself so all you fanbois can stay firmly seated.

Hjarry	(01:23 PM CEST - Aug,29 2004 )
Old lady in a miniskirt. Ho hum.

EnisDonKing

(03:40 PM CEST - Aug,29 2004 )

Well, Source engine is nice feature, but don't tell me you expected Valve to put some efforts on HAL: Source? Maybe they had that on mind, but with all the problems (delays, "stolen" code etc.) it would be great if we could get Half - Life 2 as good as they promised it to be.

Also, some other games offered similar converting-to-the-new-engine, but it never worked like "one-click-convert" simply because it didn't look good.

CaptStar	(01:38 AM CEST - Aug,30 2004 )
Np, im not saying that the water should look realistic, it just doesn't look like water. More like melted silicon or a melted metal.

xxxx	(05:42 PM CEST - Aug,30 2004 )
those shots are horrible. In the stress test demo included with CS:S, the water looks real. These are just horrid shots that give the game zero credit. Water also looks better with ATI card, I'm afraid to say.

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