I just got half life 2 raising the bar!

[kewlnick12]

Its acctully a really good book.Has a lot of concept art and the diffrent designs of what gordon freeman looked like before they made the one we know now.....heh one of them looks like a barbarian

 

[Ennui]

Ivan the Space Biker?

Much love for RTB.

 

[Narvi]

Much love for high-detail HL1 concept art. Pretty hound-eye FTW.

 

[Naudian]

Do want.

 

[nokori3byo]

Quel coincidence. I just got RTB a week ago. A little pricey, but worth checking out. I really liked the concept art for the overcoat wearing Overwatch soldier, as well as the drawing of the depot on the far side of a chasm.

Most of all, though, I'm just glad the book exists. The design of computer games is an emmerging art form and RTB does a great job of documenting the creative process as it pertains, not only to gameplay, but also to the narrative and visual aspects of game design.

That said, it think it could have done with a bit more text.

 

[Oppressor]

For a fan, its a must at the book shelf

 

[CyberPitz]

RTB is one of the best books I've ever bought....

Great read, and great art work in there.

 

[Asknoone]

Great book but more text would have been nice. Hope they do one for the episode trilogy.

 

[GreatEmperor]

Some of those early concepts were terrible but a lot of stuff got outed that was great

 

[Planetary]

The bit of text that's written as prose about the Combine ambush on Gordon and Alex, well it really wets my appetite for a Half-life novel, or series of novels. I mean, look at how the Terminator novels greatly expanded on that universe, and the Star Wars books, and the Halo books, so why not Half-life? It could be written from multiple perspectives, describing many of the evens that Gordon never sees, like the Portal Storms, 7 hour war, the surviving science team's migration to Europe, even those people on the train where Gordon gets deposited. Marc Laidlaw is a busy enough many already though, so it will probably never happened.

 

[GreatEmperor]

I liked the way so many pages were not used in the greater result

 

[Narvi]

The bit of text that's written as prose about the Combine ambush on Gordon and Alex, well it really wets my appetite for a Half-life novel, or series of novels. I mean, look at how the Terminator novels greatly expanded on that universe, and the Star Wars books, and the Halo books, so why not Half-life? It could be written from multiple perspectives, describing many of the evens that Gordon never sees, like the Portal Storms, 7 hour war, the surviving science team's migration to Europe, even those people on the train where Gordon gets deposited. Marc Laidlaw is a busy enough many already though, so it will probably never happened.

If it's done well, sure. Most of the Star Wars and Terminator books are terrible, but the Halo books? Sweet sweet.

 

[ríomhaire]

Great book but needs more vortigaunts!