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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 05:58 Edited at: 3rd Jun 2006 05:30
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Hi all,

Just wanted to post quickly to say that I've just finished the first two parts of HL2 - Episode One, and it is absolutely awesome. The opening sequence rocks, the character acting is very cool indeed, especially Dog But going back inside the citadel kicks ass, and the powered-up electro Gravity gun does nasty evil things to the soldiers. So far its the best £11 I've spent for a long time (way better than Sin - Emergence, although that was quite fun too!)

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Rich

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Bizar Guy
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 06:15
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Gahh!!! Steam is broken!!! I can't play any of mt hl games... I was looking forward to Episode one so much...

This was the Steam Engine error:
Quote: "Failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer"

I have the latest Direct x and have reinstaled it anyways... Didn't do anything.

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 07:22
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I saw it on the store after buying F.E.A.R. That was too times so expensive, and I didnt buy episode one becouse I thought they just had a recycled media with continued storyline in a short expansion pack.
Reading the reviews, it seems that only the guess that were short was right.


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 07:34
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I've just finished playing it again (yes I should have been sleeping, but hell, it's an awesome game!) - managed to get out of the citadel, and now going through the zombie infested underground. There are lots more exciting 'set pieces' imho, and it is really good fun fighting next to Alex. She has some great lines, and yet adds a real mood to it as well, the part after the stalker train crash is superb. There is a whole section played in the dark (flash light only), which with 5.1 surround sound is creepy as hell. There is a great part when you turn off the flash light and she makes these fake zombie noises, and when you turn it back on again she's like "just kidding"

It's a really impressive game so far, some real physics based puzzles too . Blasting the cars over the antlion pits to stop them spawning, etc. Very clever stuff. All I'm trying to do now is finish the underground part, but I sense a massive onslaught of baddies coming because there was ammo crates everywhere, lots of exploding barrels laying around and it's dark

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Awesome! I'd buy it but i'm pushing it when i run hl2 on my p3 667mhz with 256mb ram lol getting a dual core amd 64 soon tho

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One thing I don't get, is whether Episode one is a continuation of Half Life 2? Because I havent' completed Half Life 2 yet(I were almost at the ending, lost all data on my HDD), so if this one continues where HL2 ends, I'm not going to buy this just yet.


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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 15:18
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Rich, some of us have not played it yet!
shhhhhhhh!

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 15:27
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I've completed HL2 two times now. Awsome game Now when I look at this post, I might just go check out some reviews. Maybe I will find myself purchasing it some time in the near future.

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 16:58
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It's £19.99 in the UK shops but I bought it through Steam for $19.99. Which worked out about £12 inc tax. £19.99 in my opinion is too steep for episodic content but the Steam price is excellent.

It's definitely a good game - HL2 Ep.1 - it takes the technical achievements of HL2 further in terms of scripted sequences (it almost seems like one endless scripted sequence) and now uses HDRI- Ep.1 is pretty much the closest I've played to an interactive movie yet (although the graphics of the source engine are starting to get a bit dated now.)

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 18:10
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[quote]One thing I don't get, is whether Episode one is a continuation of Half Life 2?[quote]

Yes it is, it carries on immediately where HL2 ended. Some things will perhaps not make much sense if you have not finished HL2 yet, but to be honest when you're blasting soldiers half way across the map with a souped-up gravity gun, who cares what the plot is

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Yeah, I'm playing through HL2 again myself, hopefully will get EP1 soon.


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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 19:43 Edited at: 4th Jun 2006 07:24
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Just picked up EP1 today. I'm on the fourth chapter, excellent game so far and the best bit is Alyx doesn't seem to be able die so you don't have to worry about protecting her Will be interesting to see how long it is until the next chapter comes out.
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I will get it once I have upgraded my crumby graphics card. I want see it in all its glory.

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 21:47
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when is HL3 due?

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They haven't announced any details about HL3. They *do* have a trailer up for HL2-Episode 2 though. It looks pretty kickass.

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Is Steams as invasive as ever ?

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Posted: 2nd Jun 2006 23:48
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the Frog has been boiled

btw when is TFC:Source!!?

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I did, of course, mean Steam - unfortunately I couldn't edit the post.

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2006 03:36
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youre boiled - shush!

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Yeah... Some of us ordered it just today and forgot to preload it onto their gaming machines...

SERVERS ARE SO DAMN SLOW!

Should be playing it later tonight though, hopefully.

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2006 07:05
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It took me 3 days to download it! But that was as a pre-load, so it sort of did it bit by bit. I bought it a few days before release and it pre-loaded and then decrypted itself on the day of release.

Flawless as always. Steam rocks and for me, always has done.

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2006 07:10 Edited at: 3rd Jun 2006 07:11
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Usually I never complain about steam... because I always pre-load things. But this time I totally spaced on it, I was thinking the release was July 1st for some ungodly reason. So now I join the millions of people worldwide downloading it down that little tiny pipe.

Serves me right for thinking wrong.

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2006 15:59
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Spoilers:



I Have noticed, unlike HL2 Episode Zero, some really weird sudden drops in frame rate. I can't describe them without spoiling a bunch, but they were in really weird places with little effects on the screen... Turned HDR off after a while, but it didn't effect some of them at all.

But judging off my first few hours, I give the game a 7.5/10... might get higher later on.

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Posted: 3rd Jun 2006 18:29
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Quote: "might get higher later on"


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