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[ch0ke]

hmm im just wondering seeing as quite a few magazines are already have their hands on reviews of hl2 does this not mean that VU has accepted valves release candidate? Cause wouldnt they have to review the finnished game which we would get our hands on, and also they wouldnt review a game which is gonna come out in like more than 3 months would they...and another thing if VU has accepted the release candidate they dont have to announce hl2 gold straight away do they? :imu:

 

[CombineHarvester]

hmm im just wondering seeing as quite a few magazines are already have their hands on reviews of hl2 does this not mean that VU has accepted valves release candidate? Cause wouldnt they have to review the finnished game which we would get our hands on, and also they wouldnt review a game which is gonna come out in like more than 3 months would they...and another thing if VU has accepted the release candidate they dont have to announce hl2 gold straight away do they? :imu:

From what I understand reviewers were flown to Valve to play the game. It doesn't mean the game is gold, simply that it is near enough to let people play. Having said that HL2 may have been gold for a while, the delay being CS:S.....

 

[Mr-Fusion]

They would have reviewed versions extremely close to a gold version most likely.

I suppose Vivendi don't have to announce if it's gold....hell they don't even have to do anything for 6 more months!

 

[FoB_Ed]

Having said that HL2 may have been gold for a while, the delay being CS:S

Well now we know CS:S is finished, because we can preload the entire CS:S game

 

[Feath]

I'd imagine that Valve would announce that Half-Life 2 is gold instead of keeping it a secret.

The game is finished, the RC testing is only going to find bugs along the lines of "The game crashes when someone uses a Geforce card in Windows 98". These things aren't going to change the review score or how the game plays. That's why the magazines can review it now.

 

[fez]

but didnt valve state they didnt want to have reviews out before the game so that no spoilers are revealed? :|

 

[Feath]

but didnt valve state they didnt want to have reviews out before the game so that no spoilers are revealed? :|

Not that I recall.

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

but didnt valve state they didnt want to have reviews out before the game so that no spoilers are revealed? :|

not that I recall, either. There was one magazine (PC Gameplay NL) that wanted to use 50 screens on a DVD (additional to 40 screens in print). VALVe requested to keep those 50 screens behind, but not the review.

 

[CombineHarvester]

Well now we know CS:S is finished, because we can preload the entire CS:S game

I thought the 4th preload was "most" of CS:S.

Either way, I wish Valve would unlock another map to keep us busy until Half-Life2: Resurrection

 

[[daniom]]

I thought the 4th preload was "most" of CS:S.

Either way, I wish Valve would unlock another map to keep us busy until Half-Life2: Resurrection

yeah.. getting quite tired of de_dust now, they could release a new source map never seen before.. or yeah release hl2?

 

[JaegerMaster]

"but didnt valve state they didnt want to have reviews out before the game so that no spoilers are revealed? "

... I know what Fez is talking about.... There was an interview with Lombardi someone cut and pasted just the other day that said exactly that, but obviously this line of thinking has changed..