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"Half Life 2 Screen shot Competition"

All those Half Life 2 players who have a bit of spare time, simply Print screen an interesting shot of the game, whilst playing and whack it online and then post the link, and a title to be considered for the winner.

Depending on how many people enter, there will be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finish.

Maximum of two entries per person.

The deadline for the competition is the 30th August 2005.

Wrong, CSS was the only reason for getting HL2 if i could have i would have paid for CSS on it's own, i even asked on the steam forums if there was a way because i disliked HL2, they said no :(

HL2 just goes with the rest of the generic FPS's for me, just a very pretty one.

Didn't have any real atmosphere apart from ravenhome'?'(or what ever it's name was).

I was actually replying to Chipp, but yer, anyway. There are some jaggies but at higher resolutions with 4xAA it looks amazing. Plus still shots don't do it justice.

and isn't "Queen Mary" a college in Cambridge or Oxford or something?

Look at those plants. They're completely jagged.

Fair enough I haven't seen one game that has done a decent job of pointy leaved plants (partcularly letting down the amazingness of Killzon on PS2), but it's still frustrating. The rest is nice, just not perfect.

I'm sure in 1-2 years time you'll be laughing all the way from your Queen Mary's university at how bad HL2 graphics were.

You're clearly deluded!
Half Life 2 is fantastic. I almost didn't get it because Half Life was utterly, utterly balls, but I'm glad I risked it.

Memorandum! wrote:
> Clazon wrote:
> Clearly graphically they're pisss poor.
>
> O_o
> HL2 is the most beautiful game ever.

Yes. But those shots had jaggy sides and stuff.

In others, plants in the foreground look like chainsaws.

In general there were some amazing little smooth graphics. But I'm sure they'd be better with a better graphics card at one of our ends.

It's true it was just one big advert for the source engine, so that they could sell it to other firms. all the sections seems poor and just added to say 'look what we can do' rather than them need to really be in the game.

It did have it's good bits but othere than looks and a few impressive engine tricks it was pretty poo.

o_O

HL2 = pretty but crap

Clazon wrote:
> Clearly graphically they're pisss poor.

O_o
HL2 is the most beautiful game ever.

Oh sorry, I meant you have lovely brown hair for a gangsta.