Half-Life 2: Aftermath Video

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The first movie trailer for Half-Life 2: Aftermath is now online, revealing more of the futuristic first-person shooter expansion in production at Valve Software. This high-resolution trailer features half a minute of in-game teaser footage.

Video: Half-Life 2: Aftermath

News source: 3D Gamers

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#1 ev0| on 11 Aug 2005 - 19:23

first post woot !! Awesome video !

#2 dukelion on 11 Aug 2005 - 19:37

ohh downloading, can someone enlighten me about what Aftermath is about again? I forgot!

#3 rIaHc3 on 11 Aug 2005 - 19:39

When is Half Life 2 arriving for Xbox?

#4 Orange on 11 Aug 2005 - 19:55

Nice preview and can't wait for this.

#5 DirtyLarry on 11 Aug 2005 - 20:22

how about the Lost Coast Level?

#6 Rhialto on 11 Aug 2005 - 20:28

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#7 SimplyPotatoes on 11 Aug 2005 - 20:32

kolol vidoe!

(3 replies) #8 sinatosk on 11 Aug 2005 - 20:42

all that just to watch 34 seconds....

#8.1 Dodgy on 11 Aug 2005 - 21:41

waste of 50mb really...too short, a lot of it was black or had a logo on it, show me a proper trailer.

#8.2 AgEnTsMiTh on 12 Aug 2005 - 01:25

ummm Mabey that is why its called a "Teaser Trailer"?

#8.3 sinatosk on 12 Aug 2005 - 09:13

yeah I know that... thing is like someone said below... it barley shows anything... didn't get me interested... didn't "tease" me at all

(6 replies) #9 Ficman on 11 Aug 2005 - 21:14

It's hard to get fired up for anything form these guys, since HL2 fell short in my book...

#9.1 JoGro123 on 11 Aug 2005 - 22:12

How so? Just because it was late?

#9.2 virtorio on 11 Aug 2005 - 23:50

QUOTE

It's hard to get fired up for anything form these guys, since HL2 fell short in my book..

It did with me as well, a little bit. I enjoyed it but I didn't think it was as well done as the original Half-Life. A lot of the time I felt like I was playing a tech demo with Valve simply showing us what they can do with their engine. I didn't think the environments were as memorable as the ones from Half-Life either (such as the metal area with those green things trying to crush you (I don’t know what they are called), the helicopter fight by the Dam, the cliff face

#9.3 nookadum on 12 Aug 2005 - 10:47

Well, HL2 didn't suck, but it certainly didn't feel like a tech demo since it is just a very very modified HL1 (which is based on the Quake 1 engine) that can support higher textures and pixel shaders coupled with the Havok (2.0) physics engine (as seen in Pariah and Painkiller). But they did the single player well and it was enjoyable for the moment.

But Doom 3 was a lot more scary with the ambience and stuff, even if there were these *plastic* skins and textures everyone was saying.

Anyway, each to his own. I like both games, no need to be biased.

#9.4 sloppycode on 12 Aug 2005 - 11:07

rubbish, half life 2 is the best game we've seen for years. Most review sites agree. It's far more emmersive than any game I can think of recently.

#9.5 nookadum on 12 Aug 2005 - 12:31

It's not the best, it was great, but not perfect. Once you beat the single player game, that's it. We have to either wait for the expansion, or settle with the (boring and repetative, IMO) HL2DM/CSS. Same thing goes with Doom 3, but RoE did make it a bit better though.

Again, to each their own.

#9.6 Ficman on 12 Aug 2005 - 15:52

It's a pitty some guys don't read the post before they comment, I never said the game sucked. I said I persoanally thought it fell short, VERY poor vehicle play, game was choppy at times, long load times between screens. I mean come on this game was well over a year late and this was the best they could do. Like I said I was dissapointed, it fell short of the hype... I played the game through unloaded it and I couldn't even tell you where the disk is I was so pleased about the missing 50.00...

#10 xpgeek on 11 Aug 2005 - 22:01

I saw this from Gamespot yestersay. I know its a teaser trailer but it wasn't very exciting and barely shows anything.

(2 replies) #11 DirtyLarry on 11 Aug 2005 - 22:10

What a waste of a download. As xpgeek says it barely shows anything at all, and I maybe, key word being maybe, saw one scene that was actual gameplay.

#11.1 Cole on 12 Aug 2005 - 00:31

The trailer was to tease you, make you interested enough into the game, to make you buy the game out of curiosity of the story it will reveal.

#11.2 DirtyLarry on 12 Aug 2005 - 02:56

That was pretty much my point though, it did not tease me and.or get my hopes up in the slightest. I never though I would say this about something related to HL2 as it is one of my favorite games ever, but it looked like the same old same old, but not as good. So yes, I indeed know the puporse of a trailer, as sometimes they are even reffered to as teasers, but it just fell short. I really did not even think it was anywhere near a must have by what I have been teased with so far.

#12 Hurmoth on 12 Aug 2005 - 00:13

Can't wait for the release!

(1 reply) #13 Alien Spy on 12 Aug 2005 - 02:06

Hmm, so what the heck is the HL2: LostCoast that has appeared on Steam?

#13.1 Eclipse™ on 12 Aug 2005 - 03:53

Lost Coast will be a single-level add-on to Half-Life 2 that will feature High Dynamic Range Lighting as its "main attraction," of sorts.

You can read more about it here:
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2005/06/14/...overview/1.html

#14 cha0s on 12 Aug 2005 - 02:54

i wasted my bandwith on that? thanks for 5 seconds of nothing.

#15 espionix on 12 Aug 2005 - 03:40

Whoa pretty sweet!

#16 Aaronz0rz on 12 Aug 2005 - 04:48

*orgasm*

#17 spiffy0517 on 12 Aug 2005 - 06:37

This was the teaser they played during Gphoria. I thought it was pretty cool. I personally didn't judge HL2 by what other games had set before it i played it as if it were a stand alone game. that being said i had a ton of fun. this teaser got me psyched to play the expansion.

#18 Raa on 12 Aug 2005 - 07:08

Can't download, keep getting errors

(1 reply) #19 R.O.A on 12 Aug 2005 - 11:34

Wtf did I just see? Where is Gordon Freeman? Where is new stuff, omg, aftermath - 5 secs video weighting 60mb, thats just gross. Show us smth new, not the f!!!!ing gravity gun. That b!!!h should be pole dancing, not saving the world...omfg again

#19.1 Smigit on 12 Aug 2005 - 12:24

you ARE gordon, thats why you don't see him in game. Anyone who follows the series in the slightest would know that the chance of you ever seeing gordon freeman in game are a million to one, they intentiaonally kept mirrors out of the game for this very reason to keep the imersion factor up.

Alyx should be pole dancing? To quote yourself "OMFG", it's a game, go hire a dvd or play GTA SA

#20 chisss on 12 Aug 2005 - 14:41

that video sucked. I'm sorry but i've seen a hell of a lot better "Teasers" before. 130MB of video for 30 secs and most of it is like 2-3 secs and then it moves to the next "screenshot". They hve to do a better job to convince me of what this game can do and what is it going to be about so i can buy it.

#21 M2Ys4U on 12 Aug 2005 - 14:59

it compresses to 12MB using xvid, with no real noticable reduction in quality.

#22 neo_joel on 12 Aug 2005 - 16:11

such a tease lol, gonna be a sweet exp though, cant wait

#23 barcode on 13 Aug 2005 - 01:18

There are quite a lot of people missing why this trailer is great (at least to me). If you look close and think about stuff, it gives you quite a bit of plot information, and it is exactly what a trailer is supposed to be. A news flash: there most likely wont be anything revolutionary gameplay-wise besides so cool new ways to use the gravity gun and such. Of course, I could even be wrong and maybe they do have something up their sleeves. I think the point of Aftermath is to just have more fun doing what you did in HL2, and to continue the plot, which is exactly what I want it to be. Maybe others feel the same way?

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