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Half-Life II - (Þetta á eftir að verða hot stuff ;)

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 15:20
af Voffinn
Neowin.net skrifaði:At long last! The sequel to the best PC First Person Shooter of all time has been announced at a press conference with Valve in NY this afternoon.

Having been present at this meeting of developers and media, I got to witness the first running preview and in-game demo to leave the walls of Valve's Design Studios since development began way back when, after the release of Half-Life. And I must say, I was no less than awestruck!

At a glance, you could mistake this game for a DVD movie. The Half-Life 2 engine, built from the ground up, and boasting cinematic quality graphics at blistering frame rates, looks like it will easily topple Doom3's engine before ID even releases it!

The Dev team showed us a demo of a working alpha just to prove that the game's cinematic-style graphics were in-fact, being rendered real time. It was nothing short of amazing, especially considering that it was cutting 70fps in highest detail on a 1.7ghz processor and Geforce 4 Ti4200!

"We've tried to accommodate for the widest range of users possible. We felt that allowing gamers with lower end PCs to play with the highest settings would greatly increase the multiplayer potential and encourage the online community to really get behind Half-Life 2." commented Willam Sykes, source programmer.

As some people may also know, the tactical aspect of Half-Life 2 has been greatly increased over its predecessor. Weapons are now fully functional with gun jams, dirty barrels, overheating and weight. For example, in any in-game mission, one is expected to clear bullet casing jams, hold weapons steady (counteracting against weight) and perform maintenance tasks such as stripping, cleaning and polishing of weapons.

The Team are excited with the new tactical aspect which includes missions of the following varieties:

Radio operator missions where you take on the role of 'behind the main lines' support crew, skills in tuning radio frequencies and counter-acting for static will be essential in giving the fighting troops accurate bearings on targets

Co-ordinating scouting missions into unknown regions. Again, these require the player to stay at base with a radio and satellite uplink, communicating with fighting soldiers during battles.

Weapon Maintenance missions are completed before every main mission. In these preparation segments, players must ensure their firearms are fully functional and well kept. Failure to successfully maintain one's weapon reults in demotion and 'less action' in main missions.

Of course the above is only a TASTE of whats to come in the retail package. Expect a lot of the features that made HL1 so popular, like the adventure aspect and of course, slaughtering a LOT of ultra high resolution baddies! While I looked on at valve's demo, I thought it a shame that these baddies were ceasing to exist by Gordon's well-maintained firearm, as they were so extremely detailed it was a pleasure to watch them! The models were so realistic in-fact, that whilst watching the demo, I noticed the following:

All models have rising and falling chests/areas where lungs are used (this is helpful when you are unsure if enemies are dying, dead, sleeping or pretending!

All models are fully destructable in an unlimited number of ways. Say goodbye to shooting the whole head off an enemy. Depending where you hit it, the skull will fragment accordingly, and differently every time!

The sheer detail is ridiculous: actual hair/fur (not textures), sweat, dirt, cuts (can be made anywhere and of different severity Eg: a cut on the skin, right up to a limb coming off or an opening into the abdominal area etc)

Along with the overwhelming abundance of eye-candy, this game has quite a few never-before-tried features incorperated into the adventure.

Players may be at first shocked to find that Valve has taken the standard mouse look of FPS and added in a 'turn head' type feature. This feature allows the player to look around while keeping the body and weapon aimed in a particular direction, and is controlled by the mouse (as are the body movements). This system, for example, will allow the player to observe an environment around them whilst still keeping a weapon trained on the many prisoners that are taken during missions.

Keeping in line with the new weapon detail systems (cleaning, unjamming, maintaining etc) a sidebar will be added that will allow the player to access his weapon cleaning kit quickly by toggling and then using the mouse to grab and apply tools to clean the firearms. After battles, it is quite common to 'take 5' and make use of the weapon maintenance kit in a quiet corner. The most impressive feature of the weapon maintenance kit is that the player will take control of the tools with the mouse. For example, when cleaning the barrel of a firearm, the player must move the mouse back and forth to move the wad inside the barrel. Players must also take care not to spill cleaning solvents with the mouse when applying them. Move the mouse too fast and you'll waste some good fluid.

Our first look at Half-Life 2 was an exciting experience to say the least. The team here at Deepgame Online News are looking forward to the inevitable flow of screenshots and movies that will spill forth from Valve's Studios over the coming months, and will keep you up to date with all the latest developments as the title progresses.

Keep an eye out this Friday as we will be releasing the first screenshots of Half-Life 2 for all to marvel at.


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Ég hef hvorki tíma né nenni að þýða þetta... býst við að þið séuð allir nokkuð færir á enska tungu.

Hvernig líst ykkur á þetta ? -Ég held þetta verði algjör smellur :D

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Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 15:32
af gumol
Hvað með CS

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 15:37
af kiddi
http://www.half-life2.tk - 30. sept segja þeir að hann komi víst =)

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 15:42
af Voffinn
gumol,gumol,gumol, ég get alveg lofað þér því, að þú þarft ekki að hafa áhyggjur af því strax, það verður nóg af drasli til að leika sér að í leiknum þar til cs kmr.

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 16:15
af Jakob
Kemur öruglega í Nóvember... En þá heldur Half-Life uppá 5 ára útgáfuafmæli :-)

Ætli þetta sé DX9 leikur?

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 16:15
af gumol
Ég kaupi hann ekki fyrren CS kemur á hann :x
Þetta hlítur að vera DirectX 9 leikur

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 18:49
af MezzUp
ha? CS kemur ekkert á Half-Life2. Það er verið að gera sér CS leik(held reyndar að allir viti þetta)
Annars líst mér ágætlega á þennan leik en ég hef ekki orðið þeirra ánægju njótandi að spila orginal half-life :(

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 18:52
af Voffinn
MezzUp skrifaði:ég hef ekki orðið þeirra ánægju njótandi að spila orginal half-life :(


á ég að trúa þessu ? hvað klikkaði í uppeldinu ? ;)
ertu viss um að cz (nýji leikurinn) eigi alveg að taka við modinu ?

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 19:18
af gumol
MezzUp skrifaði:ha? CS kemur ekkert á Half-Life2. Það er verið að gera sér CS leik(held reyndar að allir viti þetta)
Annars líst mér ágætlega á þennan leik en ég hef ekki orðið þeirra ánægju njótandi að spila orginal half-life :(


Yess...þá þarf ég ekki að kaupa HL...enda leiðinlegur leikur að mínu mati...svo þú ert ekki að missa af mikklu :D

Og ég veit að það þarf ekki að kauða HL1 til að nota CS en ef CS verður alveg sjálfstæður leikur þá held ég að spilun á honum eigi eftir að minka aðeins :cry:

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 19:58
af MezzUp
Voffinn: já, ég er viss :)
gumol: akkurru?

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 20:07
af gumol
Þetta er ekkert bygt á neinum vísindalegum ransóknum og þetta er kanski bara vitleysa en hgmyndin vara sú að þeir sem kaupa HL2 tími ekki að kaupa Counter strike condistin-zero (eða hvað nýi cs leikurinn heitir)

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 20:55
af Voffinn
þá er nú bara hugsunum, bakvið þetta hjá þeim sem eru að gera þennan nýja cz, að láta fólk borga fyrir hann, og fá þá betri leik í staðinn... sýnist rökrétt :)

MezzUp : Þannig að næsti (1.6) verður final ?

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 21:01
af gumol
Voffinn skrifaði:MezzUp : Þannig að næsti (1.6) verður final ?


myndi það ekki vera 2.0

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 21:04
af Voffinn
efast um að þeir fari í það að gera 2.0 ef 1.6 kemur í sumar og cz í haust/vetur.

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 21:07
af gumol
ég hélt að þú værir að tala um að Condition-zero yrði 1,6

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 22:26
af Castrate
úff Half-life 1 er nú bara einn besti leikur sem ég hef prufað. Vonandi getur valve gert Half-Life 2 eins framúrskarandi eins og Half-life 1 var þegar hann kom út allavega verður half life 2 að vera þokkalega góður til að slá half life 1 út.

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 22:38
af MezzUp
amm, mér skilst að HL:CS v. 1,6 verður lokaútgáfa sem að hægt verður að spila multiplayer við CS:CZ þegar hann kemur út. Sjálfur á ég örugglega ekki eftir að kaupa CZ þar sem að hægt verður að nota gamla CS í v. 1,6. Ég er ekkert að fýla single player leiki

Sent: Mið 23. Apr 2003 23:29
af gumol
Nei nátturlega þegar maður er kominn með háhraða tengingu fer maður ekki að sota einhverja lélega 1 player leiki, auðvitað spilar maður netleiki :D

Sent: Fim 24. Apr 2003 00:20
af Castrate
nokkur sshot úr þessu blaði

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<img src="http://www.fps.is/images/hl2-14.jpg">
<img src="http://www.fps.is/images/hl2-3.jpg">

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