Review synopsis (from memory)
FPS’s have been at a standstill since ’98. HL1 was amazing, lots of games have tried to beat it, but none have. Now HL2 has come along and beaten it.
The games action is dense, non-stop and amazing. The striders are fantastic; the coast section is very...
No, that is more like 'Source with loads more time and money spent on the art'
To stop people just attributing HL2's beauty to the engine alone.
My theory is that the budget for HL2 was probably 10x that of Bloodlines
What, companies like Valve?
Your 9600 baud modem and the computer it was attached to was made by big business.
Isn't the point of the BBC article that advertising would reduce or replace the retail cost of a game?
'Oh - I was watching Friends the other day and there was this thing about the 'Holiday Armadillo', Can anyone confirm that it is indeed nonsense? It seems ridiculous, but not so incredibly ridiculous to not possibly be true.
I think they are just reporting news. Not making a political stand.
OK, so you never watch commercial TV, and you've never bought a product as a result of an advert?
Updating the textures would be a pain, but dropping new models in would be quite easy I think.
It is a MASSIVE job though. A good year or more work for a couple of people.