hl2 put back to october

[yamangman]

I just flicked through an old 2001 issue of PC Format, where it has the 'top 20 games of 2002' (thats the first joke). Some of this top 20 include.....

Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza
Unreal 2
Doom 3
Deus Ex 2
Colin McRae Rally 3.0
Sid Meier's Simgolf (eh?!)
Master of Orion 3
Republic: The Revolution
IGI 2
Thief III
C & C Renegade
Iron Storm

Uhhhh yea, all those games were great wern't they? If there's one moral from this mag, it's don't believe any hype

[Nomadd]

re: "If there's one moral from this mag, it's don't believe any hype"

Well, I'd add that most of the (very childish, biased) hype comes from the mags themselves. There used to be a time when I bought literally every damn gaming mag out there. In the last year or two, the only mag. I've bought each month is Edge. The reason I stopped buying the rest was exactly for the hype you mentioned: I got sick of reading their 2-3 years of constant hype for a game and then having to face the let down. I know it's not their fault that a game is disappointing, but when 90% of them are, why spend so much time hyping them? To sell mags, of course...

Free 'quality' web site reviews like Gamespot are still out there, and most of the time they get it right (although I'd certainly question some of their current Doom3 scores; mind you, they still aren't as stupidly high as most other sites.)

Of course, 'end-user' forums (like Hexus :-)) seem to be the best approach. Get your reviews straight from people who have played the game and have no vested financial interest in hyping it.

Just my two penneth.

Nomadd

[r1zeek]

there is no HL2.. its just some dude at valve making videos

Yeah i know, apparently he was using a variant of the Quake 3 engine

[Pete]

yeh is that the havoc engine?
because it is a heavely modified version of it, there wont be any way of knowing that without being told but it is true.
i think they also used some of the engine of hl one