Hl2 esclusclusive report in italian magazine

Hey, that's the same concept art as in the dutch magazine. Or was it the german one?
 
Wow. An esclusclusive report!

Hey... well I'll be... that's the same cover art as that other magazine...

Maybe that art is official, then?

Anyone here speak Italian?
 
From what I could make out with google's translation tools the article is primarily about the premier issue of a new gaming mag. There's no new HL2 info in the online article. Perhaps in the mag, but that's too small to read.
 
Ive read it (yes i can speak italian , also german) it says practically same as PC mags we have lol nothing special , some stuff about concept art designers,pyshics etc etc etc.
 
CoreyGH said:
There's no new HL2 info in the online article. Perhaps in the mag, but that's too small to read.
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Yeah... not to mention it's only a picture, too...

Sorry, the wording was irresistable...
 
KurtCobain said:
Ive read it (yes i can speak italian , also german) it says practically same as PC mags we have lol nothing special , some stuff about concept art designers,pyshics etc etc etc.
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Did you buy it?
 
I don't think PC Gamer will be out in Canada, or at least my city, until next Wednesday ;(
 
heres the translation into english using google...poor translation, but i couldnt find anything important in the article...oh well heres the translation anyway if anyone really wants to know.

[ 30/04/2004: 13:35 ] Half-Life 2: absolute exclusive right!

Cos?è Videogiochi? One review of videogiochi. Not, indeed. But review of videogiochi is one with deep roots. We make a step behind. 1983: Videogiochi is born, the first Italian review dedicated to the electronic divertimento. 2003: [ ri]nasce Videogiochi, the first Italian review that it dares to speak about the electronic divertimento with the dignity that deserves. In twenty years the video game has grown. From curious true computer science application to and own shape d?arte. From fleeting fashion to exponent of I detach dell?era digital dell?intrattenimento them. The times are mature so that if of it it speaks with the style and the seriousness which had to one therefore dazzling manifestation of the human creativity. And Videogiochi exists in order to give voice to quest?esigenza. SPECIAL Videogiochi is not alone spreading, but also deepenings and reportage. Thanks to the contribution of the prestigious British head Edge, Videogiochi proposes rich special orbiting around the world of the electronic divertimento. This month new Japanese dell?industria truth is inquired on one: Sammy. After months of negotiations, the society leader in the fabrication and distribution of pachinko have assumed the control of Saw becoming?nuovo the colossus? of the Japanese videoludico field. What means for Saws? What means for the videogiocatori? Videogiochi tries to answer to these questions speaking with the responsibles of Sammy and giving un?occhiata to the titles them in development. And while the Japanese market evolve, that videoludico in a generalized manner is gotten ready to to make equally with the consul of next generation. Which wonders are lawful to attend from the successory ones of put into effect them systems of electronic entertainment? Nell?attesa of official announcements in merit, Videogiochi advances the first hypotheses in one special dedicated to?prossima the generation. And obviously it is not all. The 2004 preannounce an epochal year for Lionhead with the most waited for commercialization of the Black & White 2, BC and Fable. Videogiochi of it is useful in order to make visit the house of Peter Molyneux. After the?trasferimento? of Tomb Raider in the hands of Crystal Dynamics, the staff of Core Design flows in Circle Study, the new founded independent society from the siblings Smith, the creators (with to Toby Gard) of Lara Croft. A special one ad hoc reveals the plans of the pair. And finally, the dossier?Solo on authorization? it inquires for and against of one of most delicate and less you notice aspects of the development for consul? PREVIEWS Therefore many games, therefore little time to disposition. Which are the more promising? Of which it is worth the pain attending l?uscita? Which jewels hide behind the curtain of information that soffoca the great net? Videogiochi lightens to you to dall?onere of the search selecting for you the titles them that indeed they deserve your attention. This Videogiochi month has privileges to offer to its readers un?esclusiva?prova on road? dell?atteso Half-Life 2 of Valve. All of it speak. Videogiochi ve the?racconta. And the new one tells also Resident to you Evil 4 more (and dared understood it of the survival horror for antonomasia), ShellShock: Nam?67 (the war like l?avete never not played), STALKER (taking a walk on the ruins of Chernobyl mitra to the hand), Thief: Deadly Shadow, Mortal Kombat: Deception, Red Dead Revoler, Burnout 3, Star Wars Battlefront, Ratchet & Clank 3 (online!), 3 Jak and Onimusha 3? all it tries to you in preview. BOOK REVIEWS In this Videogiochi number expose its opinion on Ninja Gaiden (Xbox), To make Cry (PC), Champions of Norrath (PS2), Splinter Cell: Ancient lute Tomorrow (PC, Xbox, GBA), The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords + (GC), Breakdown (Xbox), Ghost in the Shell: Stand Halo Complex (PS2), Custom Robo (GC), Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (GC), Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA), Laughed to Honour (PS2), Firefighter F.D. 18 (PS2) and MX Unleashed (PS2, Xbox). RUBRICHE More than the previews and book reviews, are the rubriche the carrying column of Videogiochi. In they its pulsione consolidates towards l?approfondimento, desire to give to voice to one true and own?cultura of the video game. Nothing of boring, attended. Only stimulating opinions and interesting digressioni on the video game and that that the orbit round. In short, the contents of this month: First Page Reportage GDC, Microsoft announces l?XNA, Mobile Enada Gaming the video game beyond walls them of house Flash Gaming Crimson Room and Yetisports Outer Worlds Diventa Miyamoto with the Super Mario Editor Mattscape For one critical of the videogiochi. First part RedEye the zone alive Mr Byte c?è art without The artists Neon Bible Errare is not human, but us will save one patch Trigger Happy the?critical games? of Rotterdam Missing in Action These crazy ones, crazy bidimensional worlds Retrotest 1992. Night Trap door the films on the consul the history of? A coin-op leggendario: Tapper Chronicles To the discovery of the history of Metal Gear Gallery Espone Yoshitaka Amano Forum L?opinione of the readers On the next number All to Los Angeles
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edit: heres a translation of the URL... http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgamesradar.msn.it%2Findexms.asp%3FRadarPath%3D%2Ffeatures%2Fdefault.asp%26subsectionid%3D363%26articleid%3D67309%26pagetype%3D2&langpair=it%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8
 
killerteoz said:
i will do it on monday then i will tell you :naughty:
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Thanks, but you don't need to - I'm Italian :) I just feared what you wrote was all the info about the game in the magazine.

deathryuu said:
heres the translation into english using google...poor translation, but i couldnt find anything important in the article...oh well heres the translation anyway if anyone really wants to know.
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Did you seriously expect the full article to be published online?
 
Brian Damage said:
Yeah... not to mention it's only a picture, too...

Sorry, the wording was irresistable...
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No, it's NOT only a picture. If you click on the picture in the article a window pops up that gives you a short slide show of some of the pages in the magazine. One of those pages is of the HL2 article. You can see words, but they are to small to read.
 
Yeah, I know... I was referring to the way that you sounded like you were talking about a tiny magazine...
 
Seppo said:
Hey, that's the same concept art as in the dutch magazine. Or was it the german one?
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It's the same as PC Gameplay (Dutch)
 
I've bought it.

The article is 5 pages long and 5 screenshots are completely new, although I don't know if they are the same that have been published on PC Gamer. Anyway I can assure they are different from the latest nine screenies we all know.

There are some Gabe's quotes, although in the passage English -> Italian -> English they may sound slightly different from what he actually said: I'll try to translate them as faithfully as possible.

It seems the journalists have been allowed to play the same three levels of the game, although there are some spoilers I'm not gonna report (unless you PM me).

I'll be back as soon as possible.
 
The new scans don't look that fantastic but there still pretty cool, one of them appears to have a real big helicopter gunship of some sort in it and another one has some UFO's way off in the distance, you can't really make out what they are.

Oh and there's the obligatory screen shot of Combine fireing at antlions in a prison.
 
First of all, the article doesn't talk about a generic Summer release, but says "September".

After arriving at Valve's headquarters, the journalists have been given a PC with the game running. They say that small parts of the levels they played have been cut because they were intended to be kept secret at that stage. Gordon finds himself in some European railway station and there are some guys, apparently scientists, who seem to be fully aware of his identity. In the meantime, from a giant screen an aged man proclaims words of obedience and loyalty.
You have no idea of where to go, but some doors are closed while others are guarded by soldiers and you'll finally be able to find your way. Some soldiers are beating citizens, some are guarding retinal scanners, some are marching with aliens. In the background, there's always the old man figure who keeps on repeating the same words.
Gabe says: "Half-Life is a 6 year old title. There are people who have never played it, others have played it but don't remember anything, others are able to play it from memory. So we decided to create an opening sequence in order to cause bewilderment in everybody. It doesn't imply that there won't be links with Half-Life 1 plot - they will just be revealed during the game, especially thanks to Alyx". He adds: "Telling a story in a dynamic way allows to provoke feelings in the player, like a true hate against his enemies. We don't want the player to fight just because we told him who the baddies are; we want him to fight because he's truly convinced of that."
The journalists played the second level, in the cemetery, and a guy named father Gregory was supporting them against various creatures. The difficult part of the stage was that some of them were zombie-headcrab made and soon they found themselves low on ammo. In the end they managed to complete the level using the Gravity Gun - picking up and launching sheet steel pieces and barrels at the beginning, causing some objects to collapse over enemies as they got the hang of it.
Gabe: "While developing Source, we realized how the behavioural physics potential was way beyond our wildest expectations. Sometimes we made a specific use of it, creating puzzles around it, while sometimes its applications came up spontaneously. We don't need to think about the possibility that the player destroys a structure in order to kill the enemy underneath: we just have to define its material in order to allow such an approach."
Finally the journalists play the third level, and there are some spoilers about how to complete it I'm not gonna write about (unless, as I said, you PM me). There's one last quote about the creation of a good AI from Gabe: "The best solution is forestalling the player's moves, trying to cover the maximum number of situations possible. For example: if he approaches a door, the most obvious reaction from the soldiers will be trying to lay an ambush behind it."
The article ends saying that all they saw in the E3 demo came up to their expectations. The game is what you can imagine it to be, and maybe much more.

Just hope my English was okay :)
 
Great summary indeed.. your English is perfectly understandable, very few errors :thumbs: :cheers:
 
Some soldiers are marching with aliens... I wonder what context this is in?

Alien prisoners? Alien workers, being supervised? Alien soldiers?

I wonder if they're the Vortigaunts...
 
Brian Damage said:
Some soldiers are marching with aliens... I wonder what context this is in?

Alien prisoners? Alien workers, being supervised? Alien soldiers?

I wonder if they're the Vortigaunts...
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The (translated) article says "...platoons are marching in company of gigantic aliens that look like they stepped out of The War of the Worlds." Striders, it seems.

I forgot to mention: Gabe said that you'll be driving vehicles in the 30% of the full game.
 
Ah, right...

So the Vortigaunts are nowhere to be seen yet...

30%? Interesting... I wonder how many vehicles there are...
 
Isn't that a bunch of workers running away from a Strider, or something?
 
Brian Damage said:
Isn't that a bunch of workers running away from a Strider, or something?
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Highly doubt it, that is an OLD screenshot, those guys are probably what the resistance fighters used to look like, in another old screenie, you see some resistance fighters and they look very similar.

Yeh...
 
I thought they were combine soldiers running WITH the strider :)
 
Whatever they are, they look to be running away from it to me... I see no weapons being held by any of them, they look frightened, and there's two dead ones (one right next to the Strider)... and the Strider's machinegun is aiming right at them...
 
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