Actually It is pretty much the worst kind of card you can still buy in stores.
It's equivilent to a geforce 2 ffs. They just slapped the 4 and the FX on it to sell thousands of them to people who don't know any better.
I know personally if I were in Valves position pretty much everything you see in the game would have significance. You have to remember that making a game is just like drawing a picture. Nothing is there without you wanting it to be there because you have to knowingly put it there.
I'm not talking about the scanners that drop Hoppers, I'm talking about the normal 'big metal flower petal faced AGGH MY EYES THEY BURN' kind of scanners.
You really need to pay attention.
1. Xen is not another planet. It's another dimensional. The portals are interdimensional rifts.
2. So DOG/Scanners/Manhacks are synth are they? Well shit I guess I missed that part of the story.
Yeah we have interdimensional beings, zombies, giant robots, gravity guns, biomechanical tanks and teleportation but thats just way too scifi. :rolleyes: