![]() Full quality CD music played at key times which actually ADDED to the experience of many of the game's set-pieces instead of being an omnipresent background track. At the time, it was light-years ahead of the stuff around elsewhere. Half-Life had probably one of the best soundtracks I'd ever heard. And what did we get after those 5 years? Well, let's break it down a bit and look at some things in detail. In other words, a full 5 years of development would be expended before HL2's final release. In essence, this pits the beginning of HL2's development cycle at around mid to late 1999. ![]() Nobody outside of Valve really knows if it exists any more or if it'll ever see the light of day.Īlthough that may seem slightly off-tangent to the discussion, the point here is: Valve later claimed it had stopped work on TF2 due to shifting focus to Half-Life 2. The scope of the TF2 saga is beyond this article, but let's just say that by 2000 it had completely disappeared off the radar, and still remains as nothing more than a vaporware project. Half-Life hit around the end of 1998, and a few months after that Valve started stirring up a lot of hype about a game called Team Fortress 2. Everything else people have associated with Valve over the years (Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Opposing Force, etc.) were actually created and are still maintained by different people. Their only previous title being, of course, Half-Life. I think it's important for everyone to realise this is only Valve's second game. ![]() I suppose I loved the first game too much, and every cut-corner valve took seared itself into my experience with it. However, it didn't live up to even a single expectation I had. I don't think Half-Life 2 is a *bad* game, it's one of the better FPSs to come out, I can't really deny that. Before we start, I think it's important to point out that disappointment isn't entirely synonymous with being bad. The second most disappointing game in my personal history (a crown which will likely forever belong to Deus Ex: Invisible War).
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