NEW HL2 SCREENS!!!!

Just found these on a German gaming site. Enjoy.



















Hope these thrill ya.

deleted, oops.http://www.half-life2.de

Lep, found these at http://www.shacknews.com

In a link to http://www.Half-Life2.de

so they all should be kosher-able types..

:cool:

Oh who cares about screenshots... look at those rail tracks and trees! :eek:

Whatever that new monster is, it owns.

Yeah, that chopper looks cool.

That gun in the 2nd pic, it looks like an MP7-PDW.

Yah they're all way cool looking. I wonder if those skies are dynamic in any way?. I also notice some great fog effects. This probably helps with distance rendering problems too. Keeps you from seeing the engine drawing stuff as you approach it. I'm definitely grabbing the next gen vid-card ASAP!. Come on Nvidia! Wheres the 6800!!!!!!

If I cant enjoy this game on all high settings and get 60 fps +, I'm gonna be very unhappy!!!

Oooh that looks positively lovely that does :biggrin: Even easily mappable areas like that shown in screenshot 4 (ignoring the background!) turn out looking nice. Level design for this should be fun :smile:

Although, the shadows are a bit funny in the 1st pic- the combine soldiers are casting them, but the trees/pole/buildings don't seem to be...

Released by Valve or hacked?

Released by Valve, there are a lot more in PC Zone.

Although, the shadows are a bit funny in the 1st pic- the combine soldiers are casting them, but the trees/pole/buildings don't seem to be...

Thats happening in nearly all the pictures to some extent actually, particularly the indoor shot (number 3) where the soldiers have shadows but the fences don't. I'm going to assume static meshes have some option to allow them to cast shadows or not, since other ones (such as the crates in the last shot) are.

That helicopter looks damn cool, and better than the flying walrus one that was in the videos. Here's hoping the delay lets them crank out tons of cool stuff.

That will be a combine helicopter, the walrus thing would have been an alien one probably (though there were combine soldiers around that scene...maybe I'm wrong). It looked too organic and alive to be combine, which come across as more technical.

:0 :0 :0 - bloody hell I love the look of that graveyard shot

Thats damn awesome. Honestly though, I'm in no rush to see HL2 released... that is.. not until I get a new video card :biggrin: Then... HL2 can release

WOW thanks, those screens rekindled my hope to see the game, I mean Its delayed for Sept. and Ive lost the reason why I wanted to buy the geme, now I remember.............. Do ya all think my 9800 pro will run it when it comes out?

lol, the hl2 e3 videos were played on a 9800 m8, a 9600 will run hl2 for anyone on a budget though + its dx9 so you get all the features.

I might need to have an upgrade over summer, and I'll certainly need to sort out this odd problem of not being able to install DX9 :sad:

I know for sure it wont run on my vid card. Its a MX series and they dont have pixel shaders. AND... its in a PCI slot.

Well, maybe I'll get a job this summer and save some cash. The vid card is the only thing I really need now.

Anybody can give a ruff estimate to the game's system requirements?

And ReNo, I think most people here will need to upgrade for HL2.

The skies are dynamic.

But having seen pictures of FarCry, these suddenly don't look so amazing tbh...



^^ FarCry on the next ATI graphics card.

I'm using a GF4 MX 440 SE which basically has nothing. But I don't intend to upgrade either. I suppose I'll miss out on the reflections and bumpmapping and whatnot. As long as I can play the game...

You wont be able to play the game. Its like Deus Ex 2. If you try running it, it wont let you cause the MX dosent have pixel shaders. Unless Im missing something?

HL2 and Doom3 will be the first two games that I won't be running at the minimum possible settings, but I'm definately waiting for the game to come out and some benchmarks to become available before upgrading. The old magazine scans from maximumPC say that HL2 will run on the original GeForce, so I imagine that in theory, it should let you run it on a GeForce4mx.

I'm pretty sure it'll run on a DX8 card WC.

God you guys! You love HL so blindly you don't realise the truth. HL2 is dissapointing, its bog standard graphics. Released in september it would have blown the world away, but please, Stalker...

Stalker has an advanced weather engine, and it looks good, HL2 doesn't even cast shadows from { textures ffs! Look at the fences, no shadows. The graphics are just as good as Splinter Cell lol!

If you wanna see a good game I advise you try and find out more about the game Gearbox are anouncing... they released 5 screenshots of oh so goodness. When they were loading I thought they were photos!

fraggard said:
I'm pretty sure it'll run on a DX8 card WC.

It might.. but the MX cards dont have pixel shaders so I dont know. The card didnt let me run DX2 sooo... unno. Time will tell.

Myrk, HL2 isnt just about its graphics etc. Its also because it IS Half-Life 2 that some of us want it.

Wild Card said:
It might.. but the MX cards dont have pixel shaders so I dont know. The card didnt let me run DX2 sooo... unno. Time will tell.

So? How many of the features really need Pixel Shaders?

Not features fraggy... the game itself. Is why MX's wont run DX2. But I can only guess for HL2. So as I said, we'll have to wait t'ill the system requirements are released. As they will say what cards are not supported.

I agree with Myrk that the graphics are going to be just average when the game comes out, comparing it to FarCry or Stalker, but what these games definately don't do as well as HL2 is the facial animations. Valve has said these make a big difference to the gaming experience, but we will have to see how much of an impact they really have.

Thats if we ever get to see :biggrin:

They are announcing it for October now here. Right now the game I'd like to get, had I a new video card and lots of money is Breed. Havent heard of Stalker and Farcry, well, unno, it dosent strike me.

Stalker, as in the Chernobyl game? Meh, looks a bit dull and boring.

Stalker looks cool, and I'm looking forward to it, but I don't see why that means you have to put down HL2. I'm actually incredibly fed up with Myrk's repetitive whining about it being some shoddy piece of crap - you have played a leaked version man, stop thinking you know all about the damn game. Sure, some scenes here don't look breathtaking, but in general it looks damn nice, and in a more realistic sense than seen in games such as Far Cry (yes its lovely, but still fake looking). Besides, if its just graphics you care about, why the hell are you still hanging around with the HL modding scene?

fraggard said:
Whatever that new monster is, it owns.

I noticed the grave yard below, those are probibly rotting corpes being controlled by headcrabs. cool

Reno I dis cus no one else does. Can't have a 1 sided argument, and HL2 has gotten too big for its boots :razz: I'm just trying to show people the other view, cus it seems that everyones just captivated by this bog standard game that no ones played :razz:

...which therefore makes dismissing it as "bog-standard" completely impossible. :razz: Neener.

I meant graphically speaking KFS :razz: They've lost thier thunder now :-/ A year ago I was amazed, now it just makes me say "meh"...

Here are my thoughts on the matter, as posted originally on the NS forums...

In the right settings, the Doom3 engine looks absolutely fantastic - those settings happen to be that sleek futuristic style the game is set in. Far Cry is another great looking game, and it does a great job mixing the two types of environments while not looking horrible, which tends to happen when you try to use excessive bump/normal maps and specular highlights on semi-realistic stuff.

It's funny, you look at the comments on these shots on blues or the shack and it's full of Far Cry fanboys saying how horrible it looks and blah blah etc. etc. - you know, the usual . But these shots look absolutely fantastic to me. Not because every pixel is the best pixel ever in a game, but because the entire environment is just so wonderfully stylized and well constructed. The entire game just oozes of a style all to itself, which (graphically) is a huge draw for me. I don't want to see 18000000.3 engines that all look the same, I want to see different interpretations of graphical flair and stylistic control, and that is what HL2 offers. It's not realistic by any stretch, but it doesn't feel fake. There's some word that I can't quite grasp that describes the artistic style here, and in my mind, that is a very good thing

Myrk, no one here is going to put down HL2 obivously.. Damnit this is a Half Life community :biggrin:

(magazine scans illegalness, m'kay- Lep.)

I dunno if Lep cares or not, but that link leads to magazine scans i.e. a tad illegal.

Myrk- said:
God you guys! You love HL so blindly you don't realise the truth. HL2 is dissapointing, its bog standard graphics. Released in september it would have blown the world away, but please, Stalker...

Stalker has an advanced weather engine, and it looks good, HL2 doesn't even cast shadows from { textures ffs! Look at the fences, no shadows. The graphics are just as good as Splinter Cell lol!

If you wanna see a good game I advise you try and find out more about the game Gearbox are anouncing... they released 5 screenshots of oh so goodness. When they were loading I thought they were photos!

A few points:

• HL didn't have the best graphics when it was released, and I think it may have been a minor hit of some sort... graphics don't mean s**t (to me anyways)
• Gameplay is king, and screenshots don't convey that at all. So, who cares if it isn't on the graphical cutting edge. See point above.
• HAHAHA! Gearbox? Who the hell cares. They couldn't manage to port Halo correctly, they made a s**tty Bond game, they wasted people's time with Blue Shift, and apparently they couldn't handle CS:CZ.

Magasin scans arent all that illegal. well, depending. If they are made to show images no, but if they also are contrasted enough to let others read the whole mag online then yes.

i'm drowning in my own drool over the screenies. please help me.
I also saw a Creative Labs demo video (not in the E3 demo), a new e, called Tunnels. ordon fights off a few manhacks (flying sawblade robots) and then locks the remainder of them behind a steel door. Then gordon goes into a side tunnel and kills a combine. then he sets another one on fire with an incendiary nade launcher. then he dropdown and meets ALyx who goes :" Hope u didnt have trouble finding me..." then a combine drops down from somewhere, landing in a cool smus-like pose. then the hydra impales him and smacks him on the ground several times. the end.

i'm drowning in my own drool over the screenies. please help me.
I also saw a Creative Labs demo video (not in the E3 demo), a new e, called Tunnels. ordon fights off a few manhacks (flying sawblade robots) and then locks the remainder of them behind a steel door. Then gordon goes into a side tunnel and kills a combine. then he sets another one on fire with an incendiary nade launcher. then he dropdown and meets ALyx who goes :" Hope u didnt have trouble finding me..." then a combine drops down from somewhere, landing in a cool smus-like pose. then the hydra impales him and smacks him on the ground several times. the end.

That isn't new in the slightest. it was part of the E3 presentation last May. I remember it very distinctly. And even if I'm wrong, it was released over the Steam beta like last August.

PS I almost forgot. I would rather have Valve spend a whole year working on content, gameplay, and story then wasting their time making an engine cast shadows from a f**king chainlink fence.

LOL, well said Yak :biggrin:

wow, what a maps...
or i should say what a photos?

Who cares about graphics. Want super-realistic, real-life graphics? Go outside. Half-life 2 offers much more than a pretty face. It seems to offer a variety of style, and content, rather than making levels full of polygons and labeling it a game. People these days are so distracted by how much prettier games have gotten that they havent noticed the fact that playing them is like stabbing yourself in the balls...What made Half-Life so compelling was its robust single-play story line, its online frag-fest of multiplayer, and its moddable content which kept it alive till this day. The reason I cant wait for Half-Life2 is because its just Half-Life 1, repackaged and suped up a lot for our pleasures. Just thinking of all my ideas from Half-Life 1 that couldnt be modded, but now can be in Half-Life2 is mind blowing.

To make it short: f**k graphics; give me fun gameplay.