I say let us choose just one of the soon to be more popular mods (CS2, DOD2, TF2, or whtever) as a free downloadable mod if we buy the regular retail HL2.
edit: why steam?? I hate steam :(
I hate the new HL2 sales plan. Its sad that valve has dissapointed us not far from the HL2 release date. I never thought I would ever say this, but Doom 3 seems more promising to me (multiplayer wise).
That was just set up like that for the e3 coverage. Come on, its a friggin walking 50 feet tall TANK. I dont think I've ever seen shotguns that can blow up tanks in a couple of shots.
probably anything that weighs more than gordon himself (85kg for now) will not be liftable with the manipulator (unless gordon is some kind of he-man or something).
the extra features that dx9 cards will get (in HL2) as opposed to dx8 cards are nothing phenominal. You will get all the main features with a dx8 card. And in terms of speed, dx9 and dx8 are about the same. Basically, with a decent dx8 card, the only thing you will miss out on is some extra...