Voodoo Extreme Reviews HL2

[SidewinderX]

Voodoo Extreme has sent word that their Half-Life 2 review is now available online for consumption!

Was it worth the wait? Five years was a bit too much for my taste, but I'm pleased at how the game turned out. Hopefully they can use the Source engine to crank out new content at a much greater pace. Is Half-Life 2 the new best game ever? That's open to debate, but it is the best game released this year and in my opinion is the new best single-player first person shooter of all time.

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

9.5 is well deserved IMO.
Best game this year without a doubt.

 

[BladeTurbo]

"Graphics - 9.5 - Not the best graphics on the market today, but close."

WTF are they smoking. These are the bet graphics I’ve seen yet. Also, i had no hassle installing and what documentation do you need, its a FPS for crying out loud.

 

[Vinnie_NL]

Maybe they were talking about the shadows which is better in Doom 3. But the Source engine ownz the Doom 3 engine in a lot of (if not all) other areas. And I've been thinking about the missing of a manual, if there was one it had contained also minor spoilers, think of descriptions of enemies and weapons. And besides that a manual describes how too install the game and contains a list of the controls. But those things were included in the retail box.

 

[Cruor]

HL2 definently has the most realistic graphics of today IMO.
Doom 3 is way to plastic looking, Far Cry is to bright and colorful almost a little cartoonish. But HL2 is perfection... well as close you can come to it today at least.

mmmm imagine gaming in about ten years =)~~~~.
If game engine follow the same explosive evolution it has during the last few years, we will see some thrillin stuff in a few years.
Imagine almost fotorealism with multimillion poly models and perhaps smooth working not to expensive VR sets to play games in. Getting way off topic and way ahead of myself.
But I see a thrilling future in gaming.

 

[johnnypoopoopant]

nice score

half life 2 was worth the wait

 

[SidewinderX]

eh, I'd agree, but the game is unplayable for me due to bugs

 

[MajorPayne]

eh, I'd agree, but the game is unplayable for me due to bugs

Sorry to hear that.

It's pretty bad when one of the mods for the fan site cannot even play the game because of bugs. Hopefully they will fix them soon (I am luckily one of the bug free ones now)l

btw: Which bugs are buggin you?

 

[MichaelT]

"-Not the best looking game..."

He must have very bad eyesight. Even considering Doom 3 looking better is laughable. Madness..

 

[crazed]

HL2 definently has the most realistic graphics of today IMO.
Doom 3 is way to plastic looking, Far Cry is to bright and colorful almost a little cartoonish. But HL2 is perfection... well as close you can come to it today at least.

mmmm imagine gaming in about ten years =)~~~~.
If game engine follow the same explosive evolution it has during the last few years, we will see some thrillin stuff in a few years.
Imagine almost fotorealism with multimillion poly models and perhaps smooth working not to expensive VR sets to play games in. Getting way off topic and way ahead of myself.
But I see a thrilling future in gaming.

Imagine instead of bump-mapped textures for pebbly ground, individual pebbles, each with their own physics models...imagine fingernails, individual hair models rendered real time...there are soooo many possibilities....

 

[Antic2]

Well, I'd rather have a working game for my "consumption" than these wildly positive reviews.

Why can't we have some word from Valve about the bugs?! Wouldn't that make some worthwhile news!!!

 

[lonestar]

eh, I'd agree, but the game is unplayable for me due to bugs

that will change, today! \o/

 

[Cruor]

Imagine instead of bump-mapped textures for pebbly ground, individual pebbles, each with their own physics models...imagine fingernails, individual hair models rendered real time...there are soooo many possibilities....

Oh nice yeah, never even thought about every little sand particle being simulated, and fluid which can actually be simulated as real fluid flooding a corridor or whatever. Ah the possibilities are limitless and so mouthwatering.

We will see this, question is when :bounce:

 

[HybridM]

Oh nice yeah, never even thought about every little sand particle being simulated, and fluid which can actually be simulated as real fluid flooding a corridor or whatever. Ah the possibilities are limitless and so mouthwatering.

There is still the issue that someone has to create all this. We'll either see many games made using the same art, or it will be a long time between games. To produce content like that is not cheap it takes many people and lots of money.