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I hope it lives up to the grim feel of the original. In HL1, for a while it was scary and confusing, it was like you were dropped into some horror movie. Now, the whole alien thing is established and all, so the sense of "not knowing what the **** is going on"
isn't there to scare us anymore, they'll have to try a new way at making it as freaky.
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Much as I agree with you there, the first game only had that effect when you played it the first time. It was an overwhelming experience what with learning new controls, weapons, areas and monsters. But after that, well, lets just say the bubblegum runs out of flavour.
I've played through and completed Half Life about 3 times. All 3 times it has been an enjoyable and fun experience, but each time I've played it, it has been less enjoyable than the last.
The new game however, should be so engaging, that you will literally WANT to play it over and over again, just to experience the thrill. (well at least, that's the idea). Plus you'll have the new version of counterstrike, Opposing Forces, Blue Shift, DoD, and many more. Also, the game editor that comes with the game will be EVEN EASIER to use! So all in all, this game is set up to create a MASSIVE fanbase scene!
That, plus the release of HALO PC will make the PC the best computer game platform of all time. Can't wait for Bungee to buck their ideas up and release HALO 2 on PC! (I know they've said they aren't, but then again, they did that with HALO 1 aswell)
As for brewmaster, yes the FX 5200 is a good card, once you've got the driver installed, anti-aliasing up to max, and all the enhancements going, it really rocks. But to be honest with you, it's no better than the GeForce 4 Ti 4600 when it comes to performance in most games. There is only a
certain amount of smoothing out that can be done with computer game graphics. Unfortunately, so far, like I said earlier, there are no games currently released that couldn't be rendered to max performance by a GeForce 4 Ti 4600.