Eurogamer visit Valve to take a closer look at Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
"One thing that strikes us as we tunnel through the Antlion world is the amazing underwater effect - exactly like swimming with your eyes open. "It's our best-looking game ever, which is owed a lot to the fact that we're targeting a higher end this time," Speyrer explains. "PC hardware has moved ahead a lot since we shipped Half-Life 2 and we've tried to stay right on the cutting edge of that hardware. We still scale down - although we're dropping DirectX 7, we scale all the way down for Episode Two." Episode Two borrows elements of DirectX 10 for those whose hardware can take it, although it's not fully DX10-based like Crysis. Not that we're complaining - the overgrown, grassy hills and rundown buildings that pepper the landscape feel at home within the context of the decay witnessed in City 17, and seem to go on for miles. Different, but consistent. Other new effects include phong shading, which gives greater depth and "sheen" to characters, who remain expressive. We can't help giggling when Alyx rolls her eyes at Magnusson's pomp. Meanwhile those Antlion workers even qualify for their own bioluminescent shader effect. Who else but Valve would bother?"
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There is no game called Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2, but Rebirth had a great ending imo. Felt robbed by the ending at first, but the more I've seen it and during my 3rd playthrough, I started to understand and realize a lot more that make me appreciate the ending.
I was enjoying FFVII Remake, even though those whispers throughout the game were annoying. But the ending was so bad that I don't even want to play Rebirth. On top of that, from what I saw on reviews, the ending of Rebirth is even worse.
Also, I'm glad to see Zero Time Dilemma being recognized as the trainwreck it is. After the amazing two first games (especially the near perfect second one), the low quality of the trilogy end is baffling. The new characters are bad, the old characters don't feel like themselves, a surprise "alien technology" pops out of nowhere, the big twist was like "eh?", and it doesn't really finish the story nor explains the loose threads from the second game.
The Half-Life soundtrack (as well as Half-Life 2) is now available to play for free on a number of music streaming services.
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this game is going to be awesome. i played half life 2 in computer and console and it was one of the best games I've ever played.great physics , graphics, sound and story. can't wait.
I want to get this, Portal and TF2 for the PC. The thing that sucks is that the Black Box is now canned by Valve and EA. I don't see the point in me buying the Orange Box as I already own HL2 and HL2:EP2 already.