I found your charactor's silence in GTA3 made him appear like he was being pushed around and taking orders without question. Im glad vice city's charactor talked, he actually had a personality.
I reckon he wears the helmet all the time and valve used artistic licence to show his face in those renders. Come on, dont tell me he swam through the various pools of toxic sludge in the first game without protecting his face!
Providing the design wasnt too horrific, i'd wear one. The ones i saw hanging up in Valve offices during that school trip look good though.
Trying to be 'hip' by wearing what a bunch of fashion designers tell you is 'cool' is kinda sad (but we are all guilty of it to some extent).
I just found this:
http://www.shonner.com/halflife/images/briefing.jpg
There goes my visor theory, maybe Gordon has augmented eyes like JC in Deus Ex :D
I loved the way the manipulator is used to drag discarded weapons and ammo towards you for easy collection. The best example is at 15:33 of the gamespy movie. Has a Jedi Knight 'force pull' feel to it - very cool.
Yeah, its obvious your gun is lowered to prevent you gunning key charactors. Im not sure how they can prevent you lobbing grenades or dropping heavy objects on them however :P
"HL2's MP will be Counter Strike Source"
Thats a missunderstanding, there both seperate products. Obviously cs2 was shown instead of HL2's MP because it has a huge following.
Obviously they wont let the franchise die though. Rest assured there will be a CS2.. eventually.
Look at Everquest. They (the eq dev team) are taking their time working on EQ2, but still have 2 expansion packs planned for the original game to keep the current player base happy.
CS will have a source engine version but this is a seperate product from hl2. Lets put this rumor to bed plz.
CS is far more popular than HLDM, so is only natural that its this thats showcased.