Eurogamer has two new previews for Episode 2 as well as an extended interview with Gabe Newell. Here are the links for the hands-on preview, the interview about Episode 2 with the Episode 2 team, and the interview with Gabe Newell.
One thing that strikes us as we tunnel through the Antlion world is the amazing underwater effect - exactly like swimming with your eyes open. "It's our best-looking game ever, which is owed a lot to the fact that we're targeting a higher end this time," Speyrer explains. "PC hardware has moved ahead a lot since we shipped Half-Life 2 and we've tried to stay right on the cutting edge of that hardware. We still scale down - although we're dropping DirectX 7, we scale all the way down for Episode Two." Episode Two borrows elements of DirectX 10 for those whose hardware can take it, although it's not fully DX10-based like Crysis.There is a good deal of information to be found in these three articles. There may be some spoilers, but Episode 2 is said to be "epic" in scale and the information revealed is only the tip of the iceberg.
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