Comments on: RPS Verdict: Half-Life 2 Episode Two

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:19:55 +0000

THE G MAN IS YOUR FATHER

By: Carl Vitullo

Carl Vitullo — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:35:19 +0000

ALYX DIES PAGE 596

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:06:16 +0000

Yes.

By: Juror #9

Juror #9 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:55:30 +0000

Well, finally a place i can get a review of a game that doesn’t have a mess of ads and gobbledigook all over the place. Thank you “ROCKPAPERSHOTGUN”. John for the first time at the site and your article on EP2 as a first read i’m completely impressed. Now for the game. Abience, story line, character development and environmental manipulation and immersion. There is so much more to say but i can’t. Valve has once again came through with another monster. As John stated above, this game lets your environment breath enough for the player to catch thier breath but only for the correct amount of time. Any less would chuck you into frustration any more time would make you wonder what’s going on. The most challenging parts: Advisor sequences ( in the hive and out) and the Strider end sequence…Can’t wait to get my hands on those hunter weapon systems.

Take care eveyone..

Is there a portal review here yet?

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:52:44 +0000

If you go to commentary mode then you’ll get an explanation about the backdrop scene. It’s principally there simply to show you what damage you’ve caused the combine through your actions in HL2 and EP1. As your adventures in City 17 are effectively over and certainly for EP2 your not going back there, that it’s an image render rather than a 3D one is fairly insignificant to be brutally honest and merely the delight of old women and nitpickers, whom are never satisfied.

By: tcolberg

tcolberg — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:59:55 +0000

I understand their use of the pre-rendered backdrop seen in the top screenshot, it wouldn’t have been as complex if it were in real 3d. Then again, it has plenty of particle effects and other special effects to still look fantastic, far better than some of the jarring pre-rendered scenes that appear in Halo 3 (which I loved).

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:38:24 +0000

“BTW, any advice on placating a very annoyed girlfriend? Not sure what the problem is, something about being ignored…?”

I asked mine to give Portal a shot. I don’t think she’s hardly ever used a computer before. But she loved it, even says next time she comes round she wants to play again. I might be the one getting neglected soon…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:59:58 +0000

Yup, just went back and checked it out. Turns out I’m other colorblind or actively brain-damaged, but they’re there in light blue.

The buildings were never much of a problem, but finding the free-standing dispensers scattered around near the base after dropships start ferrying in multiple striders gets really taxing really fast.

By: David

David — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:39:36 +0000

Ryan – they do, there should be little magnusson icons on your radar in grey I think. Failing that all the buildings left standing will have dispensers in them.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:31:54 +0000

This is astonishingly good so far, but “Our Mutual Friend” is kicking my ass. Why, oh why, oh WHY don’t the rebels put radar beacons on the fucking Magnusson dispensers?

By: simonkaye

simonkaye — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:40:20 +0000

Has anybody else run into some of those traditional steam-based stability issues, then?

By: Peanut

Peanut — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:08:49 +0000

I played through Ep2 and Portal no problems on an XP2500/9600XT/512mb RAM. If it will run on my shitbox, it will run on whatever hardware you’ve got.