Preview of Half-Life 2 (PC) at 1UP

zerodamage · May 12, 2004, 05:00 PM

"After a good year of hype that wasn't supposed to exist, we finally got our hands on Half-Life 2 recently, so we'll take you through it chunk by chunk.

You start off the demo on a train. You can walk up to a couple other passengers and they'll talk to you, saying things like "I didn't see you there," as if you appeared from out of nowhere. After a half-minute or so, the train comes to a stop and the door opens so you can get out. This is the end point for the train tracks, so you can't stay on and go to the next stop or anything like that. We're not certain exactly how this portion will match up to the beginning of the final game -- this 30 second or so portion we saw could be only the very end of a long train ride to start the game -- but it is notable that the part Valve showed us was very quick and a lot more to the point than the long introductory sequence of the original Half-Life."

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zerodamage · May 12, 2004, 05:10 PM

The very last paragraph is probably the most interesting to me.

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Apparently, within Valve the game is now at the point where people can play it from beginning to end, so a summer release seems like it may actually happen. The Xbox version is apparently not even much of a consideration until the PC game is done, so don't expect that until 2005, but PC players should see a release soon.

May 12, 2004, 05:00 PM	#1
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Preview of Half-Life 2 (PC) at 1UP "After a good year of hype that wasn't supposed to exist, we finally got our hands on Half-Life 2 recently, so we'll take you through it chunk by chunk. You start off the demo on a train. You can walk up to a couple other passengers and they'll talk to you, saying things like "I didn't see you there," as if you appeared from out of nowhere. After a half-minute or so, the train comes to a stop and the door opens so you can get out. This is the end point for the train tracks, so you can't stay on and go to the next stop or anything like that. We're not certain exactly how this portion will match up to the beginning of the final game -- this 30 second or so portion we saw could be only the very end of a long train ride to start the game -- but it is notable that the part Valve showed us was very quick and a lot more to the point than the long introductory sequence of the original Half-Life." Full Preview: 1up