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Posted by scary_jeff on Wed May 12th at 9:39am 2004

http://www.half-life2.com/

There's a trailor as well, only about 2 seconds of new footage in it though.



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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Wed May 12th at 9:42am 2004

wow, great site design. I didnt think they were going to make an official site. more rely on fan sites? perhaps they were referring only to news.

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Posted by 2dmin on Wed May 12th at 9:45am 2004

heh yeah almost makes valve look good ^_^

crap now where's my HL2 voucher ... lol

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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed May 12th at 9:49am 2004

It's a sweet site, and I'm anxious to see the new stuff that comes out at E3. I already watched that small trailer like 8 times for no apparent reason.

I'd be surprised if Valve wanted to rely on fansites at this point, especially given the unusual retardedness of Fragmaster at PHL and the community in general over HL2. Once the game's released they'll probably hand off the news reporting to fansites though.





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Posted by $loth on Wed May 12th at 10:05am 2004

me downloaded the Wm9 skin [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Wed May 12th at 10:46am 2004

There is also a new doom 3 trailor featuring footage from the xbox version. I have to say, if this is the xbox version, then the Pc version running on hardware 3 generations ahead is going to be...

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/140491.shtml

Yes, it's fileplanet, but the wait was zero when I got it. 70 megs.



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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 12th at 10:52am 2004

I wasn't much impressed by the doom 3 trailer to be honest, it wasn't as nice looking as the originally shown one. The main problem I thought was when some monsters were killed, they just seemed to blow up into gibs in a very unrealistic and old looking way, as if there have been no developments in this area since HL came out.



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed May 12th at 11:10am 2004

The doom3 trailer looked cool, but am I the only one who thought those models looked strangely grainy? I really don't like some of those enemy designs, but everything else though really feels like Doom and looks really spooky.

As for the explosive gibbing, I'd think that's an homage to Doom 1/2 with the over-the-top violence.





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Posted by Gwil on Wed May 12th at 11:20am 2004

Doom wouldn't be Doom without the comedy slant of wiping out raging hordes of mutants with ridiculously overpowered weapons

That's the charm, it's good mindless shooting..

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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 12th at 11:40am 2004

I agree about the gameplay being like that but its just the way the enemies just seemed to turn into blood and gibs, rather than realistically react to damage. Obviously I'm not talking huge realism - these are wierd monsters afterall - I just mean if you shoot them in the leg, then the leg blows off type thing. It looks like its just "if they get damaged a lot, they blow up into blood!".



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Posted by Myrk- on Wed May 12th at 11:41am 2004

? posted by 2dmin

crap now where's my HL2 voucher ... lol

Hehe- the biggest con of them all for anyone not in the US! You have to send the voucher off (which half the codes on them don't work anyway!) then you have to pay for shipping and customs, then get this- 6-8 weeks delivery from release date...

I'M NOT WAITING 6-8 WEEKS TO PLAY IT! I'VE ALREADY WAITED AND EXTRA YEAR!

Oh and that site looks quite similar to the CS CZ one... prolly made by the same people.

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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 12th at 11:47am 2004

Any other trailers from E3 you've seen that look particularly good?

One I was impressed by was DOA: Ultimate. Despite being a remake of DOA1 and 2, they seem to have improved it to looking even better than the third. The level of interactivity in the levels is incredible for a beat em up. Oh and its online via xbox live, which will be fun. It wasn't a game I was going to bother buying since I already have the second game, but it seems to bare next to not resemblance to it anymore - it even has the extra characters present in the third game, more costumes, and new levels - seems like the whole collection and then some rolled into one...with online play

http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_deadoralive_ul_e3_2k4.html [addsig]



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed May 12th at 11:52am 2004

? posted by Myrk-
? posted by 2dmin

crap now where's my HL2 voucher ... lol

Hehe- the biggest con of them all for anyone not in the US! You have to send the voucher off (which half the codes on them don't work anyway!) then you have to pay for shipping and customs, then get this- 6-8 weeks delivery from release date...

I'M NOT WAITING 6-8 WEEKS TO PLAY IT! I'VE ALREADY WAITED AND EXTRA YEAR!

Geez, move to the US then if you're going to complain.





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Posted by Leperous on Wed May 12th at 12:09pm 2004

*downloads in 2 min 40 seconds and watches*

Oh my this is going to be fun, especially with the Minigun making a return





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Posted by Gwil on Wed May 12th at 12:28pm 2004

? posted by ReNo
I agree about the gameplay being like that but its just the way the enemies just seemed to turn into blood and gibs, rather than realistically react to damage. Obviously I'm not talking huge realism - these are wierd monsters afterall - I just mean if you shoot them in the leg, then the leg blows off type thing. It looks like its just "if they get damaged a lot, they blow up into blood!".

"Ultra violence" beats realistic violence for the atmosphere of Doom still IMO, and remember the last game which had good "gibbing" locations on different body parts? SoF.... what a load of cack that was

But yes, it shouldnt be pure gibbing, perhaps just use a few large hit areas, or at least add the ability to say take a foes head off with certain weapons..

I'm commenting without seeing trailers though, so I may be wrong

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Posted by Leperous on Wed May 12th at 12:34pm 2004

Doom has ragdool physics too, it was implemented somewhat in the early alpha that people have- there's a zombie coming down some stairs that you can shoot in the leg which makes him fall down them (otherwise he just gets pissed off and keeps coming for you). You could also damage their arms/legs and slow them down. Haven't seen any of this behaviour in HL2 yet, though..!



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed May 12th at 12:55pm 2004

*cough* In the E3 movie there's a sequence where Gordon is fighting headcrabs and shoots a barrel, blowing the legs off of a headcrabbed scientist. It crawls after him...



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Posted by fishy on Wed May 12th at 1:08pm 2004

it's only a flesh wound you bastard, come back and i'll bite your legs off.





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Posted by Myrk- on Wed May 12th at 1:52pm 2004

? posted by Yak_Fighter
*cough* In the E3 movie there's a sequence where Gordon is fighting headcrabs and shoots a barrel, blowing the legs off of a headcrabbed scientist. It crawls after him...

M8 it's not anything near the complexity you imagine. The model is like SOF2- it has a top half that when blown off goes into crawling... it's very simple and could easily be done with HL1 engine. Doom 3 makes zombies limp and stuff, very cool.

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Posted by KoRnFlakes on Wed May 12th at 2:04pm 2004

SoF was quite fun imo. blowing heads off reminds me of RE, Wish I never lost my 3rd one I only have 1/2 now. I tried looking for the RE series on PC but I never found them.

I played the re-made version of the 1st on the GC a few days ago. It was really good.

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