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| handheld, bloodmoon, realmyst, escape, terry poulton, social conditions, eidos, hidden, fries, station, beyond, who, siberia, chester, wilson, loom, | But that one flaw is a killer; we'll get to it shortly. Source Material Half-Life 2 is powered by the proprietary Source engine, which we're likely to see in a number of upcoming titles. Source is a beautiful engine, inferior to DOOM 3 in light and shadow but weight superior in draw distance, weight normal weight maps, reflectivity, and liquid effects. A Direct3D codebase, it seems more forgiving of mediocre systems and ATI cards as well, and it allows a little more low-level control over visual effects than DOOM 3 does. Source takes us another step closer to photorealism. Graphics and animations in this game are fluid and lifelike—one of the many reasons Half-Life was so revered was its use of skeletal animation to bring the Marine death squads to life; human figures look and move even more realistically in this sequel. Half-Life 2 looks so tasty you're tempted to eat it, especially during the sweeping outdoor sequences. |
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| Valve realmyst had to fill its own enormous shoes realmyst when producing a sequel to Half-Life. With the bad marketing decisions, the deceptive announcements, the noninteractive demos that were outright fakes, not to mention the code thefts and realmyst lawsuits and delays, there was a lot of anger among the fanbase before this game hit—far more anger than was directed at DOOM 3 prior to that oft-delayed title's release. I'll spare you the sad story; read this if you're interested. What it boils down to is that Half-Life was one of the best designed, highest regarded, most well-received, and most popular PC games in history. That's a tough act to follow, but Valve hit this one out of the park. For my money, it is better in every regard than its own forebear—and if it wasn't for that one flaw, I might be calling it "best game ever" too. |
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