Comments on: HEVy Metal: Half-Life 2 Gets Upgraded

By: alan wake

alan wake — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:03:53 +0000

Cinematic Mod seems much better

By: Deadeyes

Deadeyes — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:20:59 +0000

If “watered down” you mean “not absolute shit art direction” you’re right.

Cinematic Mod adds just resolution, in process raping the visual direction of original in most brutal ways, not to mention replacing the music with generic symphonic shit. So, yeah. I’ll take this over that megafail any time.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:21:10 +0000

Are there really people out there who constantly think about shaders and lighting while playing the game? – Skalpadda

Not constantly, but I definitely notice such things, and it helps to add atmosphere if done well.

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:37:20 +0000

Wow, that’s a really nice set of screenshots. Thanks for the link.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:21:55 +0000

Less badly modelled sex fantasy Adrian Lima in this one apparently.

By: Sam Bigos

Sam Bigos — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:22:42 +0000

So it’s a watered down version of Cinematic Mod 10?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:17:43 +0000

Valve better not have been working on this, too. I do wonder where all their time goes.

(Probably sipping pina coladas on yachts.)

By: Tunips

Tunips — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:16:32 +0000

I should really learn how to do this properly.

http://games.on.net/file/31504/Half-Life_2_Update_Mod

By: Tunips

Tunips — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:14:57 +0000

Woo using html fail. Trying again.

By: Tunips

Tunips — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:10:23 +0000

Here’s a solid download site for the mod

By: Gmans

Gmans — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:31:28 +0000

Cinematic Mod > this. updated valve models for alyx – not that hideous plastic titsmonster – combined with HD civs and barney, scientist etc… new sounds, music, a more detailed, more believable world.

Not that this is bad per se, but compared to CM10, it’s crap.

By: Shadow Wulf

Shadow Wulf — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:36:05 +0000

I’m not too excited for this mod. The only thing I don’t like about the new source engine that episode 2 uses is the lack of texture details it had compare to the first source engine. They simply replaced a lot of the textures with bump mapping and Bloom when they simply could have made the textures a higher resolution. I agree on a lot of you that HL2 simply looked more realistic, it’s not as eye candy but it still has that charm. One of the biggest difference for me in Episode 2 was the vortigaunts skins, sure it looks prettier but all that wrinkled detailed skin was gone! That helped it look more realistic, the only thing the 360 owners really has going for them on HL2 is the dynamic shadows and and slightly better texturing.