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  • CSN NewsBot

    #1

    e3: csx & hl2

    As some of you may know, I was at this year's E3. At the expo I spent a lot of time with Counter-Strike for Xbox and guest correspondent, mutatedjellyfish, waited in line for five hours to see the Half-Life 2 demonstration. We've combined our powers and have written a massive article summarizing the parts of E3 that matter to us CS fans.



    Three pages are dedicated to Counter-Strike's Xbox port alone, while another two are given to Half-Life 2. Here's an absolutely random quote:
    One interesting graphical tweak is a feature that simulates your eye's pupils. When you enter into a dark room, for example the middle area of Dust with all those crates, everything will be impossibly dark. As time goes on, your pupils will get wider than the waistline of your average Linux fan and you will be able to see better. When you get flashbanged, the effect is much more apparent and your world around you looks blurry and lacks detail before you begin to fall back to normal vision. This is an interesting change of pace, but this is another advantage to the defending team who will already benefit from easier aiming as it is relatively difficult to use an analog stick to aim in the first place.
    Read it now, because it's the talk of the town!
  • Mr. T

    #2
    :O! HOLY SHIT BATMAN!

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    • Oddjob633

      #3
      i've watched the demos from ign insider...hl2 looks awesome. september seems years away...

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      • alfuh

        #4
        out of all this all i get is ... scout hates HL2!!

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        • Endevox

          #5
          very nice, i watched the Half Life 2 movie from Fileplanet..it was amazing



          plus, is there any way to get that Half Life 2 shirt? (not including the cat :P)



          i'd love to buy that shirt...

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          • Zemelon

            #6
            CSX = total retail cwap

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            • Spartibus

              #7
              Very, very nice.



              It has changed my mind about CSX.

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              • Ghengis

                #8
                Good job, excellent jourtnlistic method and presentation, 10/10 interested in everything you said, (So wheres the free hl2 tshirt that obviously doesnt fit you?)

                And hurray for scout makingit into the pic! w00t

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                • ReFresh33

                  #9
                  WOW amazing...cs on xbox is kinda lame.. I don't like the idea cuz u can't aim and do anything. Its kinda like James Bond, but worse. And half-life 2 is i guess. They just doing it cuz lotsa ppl like it. So ya.

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                  • DrMagus

                    #10
                    Who was it from GamesNET? I wanna know!

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                    • gloct

                      #11
                      the hl2 video looks good

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                      • Omicr0n

                        #12
                        Half life 2 will blow doom3 our of the water. It seems the landmark game we all waited for will soon be shunned by another landmark game that will blow the original one away. I'm happy to say that im ordering my new computer September 25th D

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                        • CabalSoljea

                          #13
                          HL2 looks like its gonna revolutionise FPS again...

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                          • David Johnston

                            #14
                            Hopefully that (excellent) preview on CSX will wash away any fears people have had about it. It's looking awesome.



                            I especially like the bit about Dust :)

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                            • wank0r

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                              CSX - thnx for such a lovely review but tbh I don't think i'll be rushing out to buy it for my Xbox , I find after playing on PC almost all my life that playing any game with those annoying anolgue control sticks really frustrate me , I mean lets be honest who is actually gonna sit there on de_aztec for 20mins with an AWP trying to hit someone ? well not me anyway i'll stick to the PC as the graphics are far nicer and basically all the Xbox hype doesn't amount to much as the sales figures show for themselves. The Xbox has always been a 733mhz with an outdated graphics card as you can tell for the measly £120 that most stores are selling them for now and I mean that gives you Halo. For PC fans of CS , I think CSX will disappoint heavily and I won't b shelling out money for a game which I have on my PC and is much better on PC than on a console with Oversized controllers and more buttons than a Boeing 747 and the size of the controller , jesus what was Microsoft thinking , Im fat and my hands are chunky and they don't manage to fit snuggly round the controller.



                              4/10 Give CSX a miss

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