Exclusive Half-Life 2 'Coast' video News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
With Half-Life 2 drawing ever closer, Valve Software has released the latest in a long line of high resolution trailers drawn from its extensive E3 presentation this year, and has been kind enough to let us debut it exclusively on Eurogamer this weekend.
The "Coast" video weighs in at 164MB and is available over our BitTorrent-based Eurofiles service from here. For those who haven't seen a shakycam version of it, it has Gordon powering along gorgeous but eerily abandoned beaches in a buggy, before tackling enemies both alien and of the gun-toting oppression-enforcement variety. The Coast vid is also home to a rather enjoyable set piece involving a crane. All in all well worth downloading.
Meanwhile, the third phase of the Half-Life 2 preload has begun on Steam this weekend, and the good news is that it seems to be slightly smaller than the previous downloadables.
"This will allow users to download the majority of the models of Half-Life 2 in encrypted form," says a note on Valve's Steam website. "No purchase is required to pre-load Half-Life 2, but is required to activate the game. The moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased Half-Life 2 via Steam will be ready to start playing right away."
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MonkeyMatters
11/09/04 @ 15:38
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I've got this on a pretty high quality from the Video collage of HL2 that FilePlanet released during E3. (the 700mb video).
But this is the Binx version of the coast section, meaning super high quality. |
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Universal Hamster
11/09/04 @ 17:04
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Hnnnnggg... Must... Resist... Urge to download only part of game they havent shown yet... Looks like Valve didnt take my advice to just finish the game then... Oh well... I think im becoming more zen about the release for HL2. (Or is it Xen?)
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and they also have to prepare the ad campaigns.
If the ad campaigns haven't already been done for the last few months then I'll eat my hat. Remember they said that they were aiming for September 15th to submit the first RC but they may well submit before that. Also given the huge amount of beta testing that Valve have probably been doing already and the huge amount of extra testing that the CS: Source beta has provided and I think it's unlikely that there will be many problems (if at all) in that first RC. VU managed to release Homeworld 2 within 2 weeks of it going gold so I can't imagine why they'd want to delay the release until November. Unless of course they're going to try and steal some of Halo 2's thunder - okay it's a different format but surely releasing these two games at the same time is a stupid idea? |
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I think the reason most people are bothering with steam is because it's the only way to get the "free" copy of HL2 bundled with ATI cards. Beginning to wish I went with nVidia though :).
Could be wrong, there may be lots of people desperate to fill their hard drives with encrypted vapour ware :). 2GB of the stuff at the mo', made me uninstall UT2k3 (thank god :)). |
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hp_on_toast
13/09/04 @ 10:05
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I hope the video is taken of the game on the easy setting, otherwise Valve should hurry up and code some of that damn squad AI that was promised!
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hp_on_toast
13/09/04 @ 14:57
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It is like Valve spent so much looking at physics and facial animation that they didnt realise how far FPS's have come since HL one. How good would the game look if the HEV suit had its helmet and HUD as a proper model, a Metroid style, Halo Health / Sheild system and even CS style aiming accuracy based on movement / position/.
Then again, at least Valve created a game with physics and lets the character pick stuff up with their hands, so they do have to wait for super physics gun before picking up barrels and boxes and hurling them around (I hope it is in CS:Source). And to be extra picky, when in the car, foliage doesnt fade in too nicely and when Gordon is climbing the crane, some pop up (or is it a clipping prob) is noticalbe on the right of the screen at a distance. Sorry if I sound like Im moaning, but I just dont want to see this game fail :) |
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"Eldritch, does "Digital Mining" ring any bell? :-)"
Indeed. Plenty of bells. (C: One of these coincidences - I happened to click on your username (sometimes I just do this out of curiosity), and your name rang a bell. In fact, I must have read it just a few days ago in a German print mag (or maybe online), and a quick googling revealed that this wasn't implausible at all. Sorry for stalking you. ;-) I take it the project you're working on is still a secret?
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