HL2 Reviewed

[[CyW]-=BigBear=-]

96% is very good.. You cannot give a higher rating really since no game is a perfect 100%, there is always room for improvement.. 96% is as close to perfect as you can get, I didn't expect less from HL2 to be honest..

[Spookie4551]

I'll wait until a mag more trustworthy, well to me at least, reviews it. Or till i play it my self. I dont trust pcgamer at all not since they gave outcast 90%

[Deletable_Man]

Shame the difference between Doom 3 (a let down) and HL2 is only 6%.

[azz0r]

Haklin wrote..

IT WASNT A FUCKIN SEQUEL FOR FUCKS SAKE...sigh...fn hl fan whore. it was a REMAKE of the orginal...they stated this during development...and yes it lived up to everything it was meant to be and more...IF U KNEW what it was actually about.



btw i actually do like hl and cs, but im an id software whore considering they have and always will make ground breaking fps games before anyone else.

Jeez, Im fed up of hearing about ID revolutioning this that and the fucking other.



Doom 1 was something revolutionary - sure, Doom 2 was shit and Doom 3 is just a boring uninspired FPS.



ID did one good thing, now all they can accomplish is a bland graphics engine to sell.

[bozer]

[ID did one good thing, now all they can accomplish is a bland graphics engine to sell.While the game wasn't all I had hoped for, I don't think you could call the graphics bland. Theres no other game out at the moment which has more impressive graphics that I can think of.

[Captinspliff]

azz0r wrote..

Jeez, Im fed up of hearing about ID revolutioning this that and the fucking other.



Doom 1 was something revolutionary - sure, Doom 2 was shit and Doom 3 is just a boring uninspired FPS.



ID did one good thing, now all they can accomplish is a bland graphics engine to sell.

because we all know Quake was just another average fps.

[kerosine99]

Captinspliff wrote..

because we all know Quake was just another average fps.

good point.

[Spookie4551]

And without quake we'd have no... btw doom 3 is the gaming equivalent of marmite.

[SteelV]

on hlfallout forums it seems like it could possibly be a scam by the original poster as he has given little to no proof and no one else afaik has gotten the magazine yet.

[Antinous-ODY]

well, for the doom vs hl argument..



doom 3 was scary and was a great game that looked decent

(if you like metal hall after metal hall and monsters hiding in broom closets,

which im not complaining about, but meh)



quake was just a deathmatch, now that may have seemed really innovative at the time, but personally i cant stand just shooting as fast as you can



hl2 will probably be awesome and i expect better than doom3 simply because there is a more detailed story behind it, they put more into the

game than just shoot demons, find key, shoot demons, shoot demons, open door, shoot demons... but i guess if you oversimplify all fps are like that.... but i think hl2 will be the most immersive/involving fps that has come out in awile

[ukHazard]

Spookie4551 wrote..

I'll wait until a mag more trustworthy, well to me at least, reviews it. Or till i play it my self. I dont trust pcgamer at all not since they gave outcast 90%

Wait for Abysmal to moan about how abysmal PC Zone is compared to Gamer.



Me, I agree with you. PC Gamer (UK) never really seemed very interesting.

[gumplunger]

As usual, more good news about HL2, yet all I see here is arguing and whining.

[Mobius?]

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Haklin wrote..

IT WASNT A FUCKIN SEQUEL FOR FUCKS SAKE...sigh...fn hl fan whore. it was a REMAKE of the orginal...they stated this during development...and yes it lived up to everything it was meant to be and more...IF U KNEW what it was actually about.



btw i actually do like hl and cs, but im an id software whore considering they have and always will make ground breaking fps games before anyone else.

Uhh, the Doom and Doom II storylines involved demons from hell invading Mars (and Earth in Doom II) and you have to kill them and fight your way to hell and cut it off at the source.



Doom III story is about genetic engineering gone wrong AND hell spilling over and all that shit. If it was a remake would it not have the same story and similar level layouts?



It doesn't. Doom III is just a high resolution texture (not even high poly*, wtf?) game with a bunch of attempts at cheap scares bundled with shit AI and assinine PDA scavenger hunts.



I don't know why everyone says the graphics were so good, all they did was make very high resolution textures that innefficiently use system resources and put them on relatively low poly surfaces and models and say "wow, look at us! we is c00l0rze5!!!"

[m0ss]

Haklin wrote..

IT WASNT A FUCKIN SEQUEL FOR FUCKS SAKE...sigh...fn hl fan whore. it was a REMAKE of the orginal...they stated this during development...

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

[[CyW]-=BigBear=-]

gumplunger wrote..

As usual, more good news about HL2, yet all I see here is arguing and whining.

That's the CS-community for you..