THATS BECAUSE BACKMAN SPENT HIS WHOLE CAREER RIPPING OF WAYNE DOUGLAS BARLOWE WHO'S BOOK 'EXPEDITION' THIS SERIES IS BASED ON.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0894806297/104-7757502-2035146?v=glance
NEXT.
Your WRONG post
Because the French journalists were invited to a demo just like IGN have been (and a bunch of other journalists who haven't published anything yet). They video'd the demo and posted it on the net. I would imagine they've broken an agreement by releasing the videos.
This...
Yeah - what happened is, a couple of days before the official unveiling of Half-Life 2 Xbox, a CO-INCIDENTAL fake is released, showing the game apparently running on a console.
AMAZING CO-INCIDENCE. All the people who claimed the original videos were fake were obviously right. And the...
EVERYONE PAYING ATTENTION? THE ORIGINAL MOVIES WEREN'T FAKE. NOT FAKE. NOT FAKE. STOP ASSUMING THEY WERE FAKE. NOT FAKE. EVERYONE WHO SAID THEY WERE FAKE WERE WRONG.
Ok, how about this. Publisher can't always control when and which screenshots are released for thier products.
Anyone could have snuck a camera into a test room at Vivendi or MS and taken these shots.
I'd guess that the Dog sections were amoung the most animator-intensive sections of the whole game.
I'd also imagine that developing proper combat AI for Dog would have delayed the game another few months.
We got as much as they could do.