Half-Life 2 Demo

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The promised playable demo for Half-Life 2 is now available, allowing you to sample the recent acclaimed first-person shooter sequel by Valve Software. This humongous demo "takes players through some of the early levels of the game and later transports them to the area of the game known as Ravenholm" but requires a Steam account to install.

Minimum System Specs:

1.2 GHz Processor
256MB RAM
DirectX 7 capable graphics card
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection (broadband connection recommended)

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#1 Elite_graphix on 21 Dec 2004 - 18:39

nice

(1 reply) #2 idvah on 21 Dec 2004 - 18:51

its 787mbs!!!!

#2.1 fr3ak on 22 Dec 2004 - 15:18

can I rarify it down to 700mb? for cd burnage.

(7 replies) #3 acidic-e- on 21 Dec 2004 - 19:35

wow you still need steam huh?

No thanks Valve so glad I passed on your game and went with WOW.

#3.1 divertom15 on 21 Dec 2004 - 21:05

HAHA your loss then

oh and theres a reason HL2 says most anticipated pc game release of all time. that statement will remain true untill hl3. I dont think ill ever see a blizzard game get that kinda statement. some of them have been good so not to sound like im trolling i really like a few of their games its just hl2 > all blizzard games.

#3.2 Mav Phoenix on 21 Dec 2004 - 21:50

I guess you haven't seen the sales for WoW.

#3.3 MegaManXcalibur on 21 Dec 2004 - 22:50

Just wait until Blizzard announces a new StarCraft strategy game. I'm sure that would certainly be a canidate for the next mostly anticipated game of all time.

#3.4 Snuffy22 on 21 Dec 2004 - 23:20

hahaha, divertom15 where do you get your facts from, a cracker box???
WOW sold way more then HL2 and even has more players
but if you really want to get into it, "the sims2" is the most highly anticipated pc game so far, personally i hate it, but the sims is the most popular game in the world, so next time, do some reasearch and not just go with what your mates and your local pc magazine say
lll lllll LLLLL LOOOOOSER

#3.5 Jstphish on 22 Dec 2004 - 04:48

You all also have to remember that Steam was totally crap coded. It just plain sucks. That may explain the reason it has fewer users.

#3.6 petrolxl on 22 Dec 2004 - 13:43

Steam is great. I love it.

#3.7 cheesegoduk on 22 Dec 2004 - 19:17

HL2 was nothing special, other than the graphics which were very nice

#4 pb186 on 21 Dec 2004 - 19:37

since you have to activate it using steam you may as well download it from there too.

#5 beardly on 21 Dec 2004 - 19:39

Steam isn't as bad as people make it out to be. It is a lot better way of sending out updates than most software.

(1 reply) #6 Mx² on 21 Dec 2004 - 19:39

Nearly 800mbs. Thats HUGE. How many levels included?

#6.1 Radium on 21 Dec 2004 - 19:53

The arrival to City 17, you can walk around in the station and in a small part of the city.
Then you jump to Ravenholm, where you play until you get to a church, it takes time.

It's pretty short, but long enough if you want to test your system.

(1 reply) #7 nickhall99 on 21 Dec 2004 - 20:10

man alive, you guys are saying 800MB...when I looked at downloading it, it was telling me it was going to be about 3.5GB (the size of the complete game I think).

If you guys are right about the size, maybe I'll give it a go. Like Radium said:

QUOTE

It's pretty short, but long enough if you want to test your system.

I'm planning on getting HL2, but it would have to be on my PC rather than my laptop, so I'll want to test the PC out first. This will be a good way.

#7.1 Radium on 22 Dec 2004 - 04:11

There's no real fire fight... it's just you and some slow and fast zombies. So I don't really think that the demo will push our systems far enough.
There are stuttering problems in the demo too. I don't know if they solved that in the full version, but the demo should have all the patches etc.

Look out for those black headcrabs.

To be able to show the frame rate, add this to the command line in Steam:
-console
Then change cl_showfps to 1.

#8 Panorama on 21 Dec 2004 - 21:09

Been playing the demo for a while and I have to say: Can't wait for Christmas! Ravenholm scares the crap out of me, though. Crazy headcrabs come out of nowhere.

#9 Ficman on 22 Dec 2004 - 00:53

Cool

(1 reply) #10 cscheatsforyou on 22 Dec 2004 - 01:04

anywhat stop bitching guys, and what video cards do everyone have to play HL2

#10.1 rockguitarpaddy on 22 Dec 2004 - 18:49

Me? Im Running HL2 at :
1280 x 1024
high textures and models
4x Filtering
Low Shadows
No AA
(Nearly Everything maxed)

ALL THIS AT 40fps!

The card...........................................64mb GeForce 4 MX420!
Appluase apprieciated!

(1 reply) #11 cscheatsforyou on 22 Dec 2004 - 01:07

i don't know if i want to waste 50 quid on a game thats requires you to install Steam, too much bull**** with steam ,i want the game not the game + a turd.

#11.1 Jstphish on 22 Dec 2004 - 04:49

Hahaha, just what I was thinking!

(1 reply) #12 semaja2 on 22 Dec 2004 - 06:42

you guys are stupid steam is aexcellent way for the games everyone has the same versions and all and btw yes its 800mb but when extracted ends up to 3gigs

PS it will run on anysystem i run a 2.08ghz 620mb of ddr ram and a geforce2mx

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#12.1 werejag on 22 Dec 2004 - 17:45

steam is a waste of resources

(2 replies) #13 Anaron on 22 Dec 2004 - 12:58

8.08GHz? Do you have a Super Computer?

#13.1 petrolxl on 22 Dec 2004 - 13:45

Leet. Perhaps he is overclocked to hell??

#13.2 semaja2 on 22 Dec 2004 - 14:50

sorry my above post was wrong its ment to be 2.08 ghz

#14 nookadum on 22 Dec 2004 - 13:59

HL2 is great... once you remove Steam.

And yes, I have a legal copy of the game, and no, it's not worth it to play online since it's just HL2DM and CS

, and it is laggy.

(1 reply) #15 FaX on 22 Dec 2004 - 15:39

whats steam lol

#15.1 rockguitarpaddy on 24 Dec 2004 - 17:23

Steam is EVIL! IT WILL DESTROY GAMING FOREVER!

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