The screenshots dont do it justice.

[crabcakes66]

I have to say ...i only just watched the high(er) res trailer and the low quality ATI booth demo.


Screenshots just cant portray how awsome this game looks and "feels".

Hl2 really will be as good as the first.

What do you guys think?

 

[Rupertvdb]

I am with you all the way, it takes the fluidity of the motion to translate just how inspired the graphics are, how detailed the environment is and how 'together' the game feels. The screens just don't have a thing on seeing a strider stalking up a street or the attack helicopter flying overhead.

This game is going to be incredible!

 

[MrWhite]

I have to say ...i only just watched the high(er) res trailer and the low quality ATI booth demo.


Screenshots just cant portray how awsome this game looks and "feels".

Hl2 really will be as good as the first.

What do you guys think?

will be as good?

Let me quote Mr. Cam Clarke as Liquid SNake in Metal Gear Solid when i say that it will surpass it... it will destroy it

 

[x84D80Yx]

yeah.

too bad 'mid summer' keeps feeling longer and longer away with all this e3 stuff ;x

 

[MrWhite]

yeah.

too bad 'mid summer' keeps feeling longer and longer away with all this e3 stuff ;x

Ah, once you get the videos they will tide you over... just like the original videos gave us rest until sept. 30th, but that all turned to shit, didnt it.

oh well, i can wait... it'l be well worth it :thumbs:

 

[Rupertvdb]

i wonder when fileplanets queues shall finally recover from everyone trying to download at once...they must have a thousand people at any one time.

 

[crabcakes66]

will be as good?

Let me quote Mr. Cam Clarke as Liquid SNake in Metal Gear Solid when i say that it will surpass it... it will destroy it

its all relative.......


HL destroyed everything else when it came out

 

[TheWart]

Well, I just finished the FP 600 meg clip, and it is everything I hoped it would be.

The graphics looked really nice, no more low-res junk, and I swore I saw lots of DX8 (or is it 9?) PS surfaces.

 

[Shuzer]

Yes, the FP stuff was sweet..

 

[WhiteBoy]

I am currently trying to download the damn thing.. 90 minutes remaining..

And about the screen shots...

I do feel they take the game down a little. To really to able to admire HL2 in it's full, it has to be seen in motion.

 

[obsidian]

dammit, i need faster internet so i can get this beast down quicker.

 

[Spiffae]

LOTS of pixel shaders, bump maps, specular maps, and some normal mapping that's hard to spot because it's so well integrated.

 

[qckbeam]

I admit, the recently released screenshots (the ones that managed to look worse than last years material) had me down. But today ALL fears were put to rest for me. It's obvious that the source engine is a beastly piece of software, and half-life 2 is all set to kick ass this summer. Just wished they would have given a specific date, but ah well, that announcement must be somewhere on the horizon

 

[Colonel Sanders]

What did I tell you, you have to see it in motion to relize how beautiful it is!

 

[Styloid]

After comparing some of the screenshots to the vids I'm pretty sure that the vids are higher detail. Look at the shot of the two combine guards with one sitting in the apc and a strider in the background in city 17. Different.

 

[Shuzer]

After comparing some of the screenshots to the vids I'm pretty sure that the vids are higher detail. Look at the shot of the two combine guards with one sitting in the apc and a strider in the background in city 17. Different.

Wow, you're right. The video version is higher geometry for the buildings in the background

Nice eye

Comparasion shot for anyone who cares attached

 

[Brian Damage]

So... they were just messing with us, and released low-quality screenshots so we'd be wowed with this build?

I gotta find a way to get this vid...