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#1 Hector_01
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This was on megagames. Apparently you unlock these screenshots. Its always interesting seeing new Duke Nukem Forever content lol.

Here is the link

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/console/dukenukemforeverscreenshotshiddeninxbladuke3d.shtml
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[QUOTE="bogaty"][QUOTE="dos4gw82"][QUOTE="bogaty"]

Half Life 2 (I was guilty of buying into the hype. While I never thought it was going to be as good as the gushing reviews and slavering fourm fanboys made it out to be, I never thought it would be as mundane and forgettable as it was)

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What?!?!?!

Mundane and forgettable? Maybe a few levels, (Ravenholm) but as a whole, that game was unbelievable. Can you honestly say that fighting the striders wasn't fun, that the gravity gun wasn't one of the coolest weapons you've ever seen, and that your jaw didn't drop when you entered the citadel?

Maybe if you played HL2 today you wouldn't find it to be as unique, but back in 2004, there was absolutely nothing like it.

To me, I bought it when it was first released and I found it to be a bog-standard shooter.

I view Half Life 2 as the antithesis of the bog-standard shooter.

In the bog-standard shooter, you go from A to B killing the same few enemies over and over again. The bog-standard shooter is based around one central concept - killing enemies. The only thing that changes is where you kill them. You'll go to office complexes, you'll go to research facilities, underground mines and city squares. But you're always doing the same thing - you're killing enemies.

Half Life 2 has a profoundly different take on the genre to such an extent that I do not consider HL2 a first person shooter. You will begin the game entering a cool 1984-style dystopia, then you're in an undarmed escape from the law, then you arm up and fall into a series of firefights, then you're speeding down a waterway in an airboat, you're manipulating objects (with far more finesse than games like Tomb Raider), you're playing catch with a giant robot dog, you're creeping through a hollywood style zombie town, you're in your own version of the movie Tremors, you're squashing enemies with a giant industrial crane, you're leading a team of giant insectoid monsters on a prison raid, you're in a city square with human AIs fighting large hectic battles which move up onto rooftops as War of the Worlds style walkers are introduced and you're finally travelling through an almost surreal alien building.

Around each corner in Half Life 2 is something completely new and unexpected. It's not just the locations that change, it is the entire tone of the game. Around each corner in the bog-standard FPS is.... more enemies to gun down. Now, I think HL2 has bad gunplay, but the gunplay is really not the point of the game. At least, not as I see it. The point of the game is the ever-shifting scenario, and it's something that very few, if any game has ever even attempted (never mind managed with such expertise) on such a scale as is found in HL2. If you just focus on the gunplay, then yes, Half Life 2 is a pretty bad game. The weapons are unsatisfying, the AI is a step backwards from HL1 and the game is annoyingly easy... but the gunplay is not what Half Life 2 is about. Strange for a first person shooter, I know.

But then again, I really don't think Half Life 2 is a first person shooter. And it sure as hell isn't a bog-standard one. I'm not trying to change your mind or anything, I'm just offering an alternate perspective to help you perhaps consider if you judged the game from the wrong angle. I know it's kind of hard to appreciate a game viewed from the first person where you're carrying a gun all the time as something other than a first person shooter... but I really think anyone who judges HL2 by the standards by which they also judge traditional FPS games is a little misguided.

I'm sorry but i have to kinda agree with the other guy. I bought hl2 when it first came out also. I was hyped up as anyone was. I have to admit that it really didnt deliver like they went on about it. The traps thing was an absolute joke. Sure they worked like they said but they were only in one lvl that had traps set all over the place specifically. The grav gun was cool but it was the havoc physics engine at work and hl2 was one of the first games to use it (aside from max payne 2 i believe). Dont even get me started on the story cause i have seen hugely better stories in others games then HL2's generic alien invasion tale. HL2 was a great game but it just wasnt anywhere near as good as it was hyped up to be. It WAS just another FPS but a high quality one. The problem i had was all the promises they made about when it was being developed and i guess they just didnt achieve what i thought they were goin to do.

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Golden Eye on N64.

Greatest FPS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I played the crap outta that game back in the day.

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Never winter nights for sure. That game got me so involved. I loved that game for the story above all else.
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lol same mate i could tell straight away that it was a pitcure.
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I don't really know there is a lot of talk about it lately, still even if there is I'm not interested I already played countless times on the GC. I want RE5.Star650

Agreed. I want to see RE5.

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I bought Doom 3 the day it came out and it was worth every penny. Great game. Really creepy in some bits and its a good length too. Installed it a few months ago and was amazed at how good it still looked. So yes for 20 bucks or whatever it costs now it is worth it for sure.
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Resident Evil 4 was THE best resident evil game by a long shot. So in my opinion that has lived up to its name.

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory was insanely awsome. Another great sequel.

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Thanks for the replies! I have a 7900GS, 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB ram. I'm hoping this would suffice?!halivingston

get a new vid card. Maybe wait for a 9 series card to come out in that price range.

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Well after reading all the responses, its hard to say if they can run it on console hardware. I am a pc gamer at heart though i do play the other consoles. Honestly i think that no matter how good they program the game to play on consoles i just find it very hard to see it running on very high settings (full detail) on any current consoles. They could come close but not perfect i think but some things would have to be turned down. By the way, crysis 1.2 patch came out not that along ago and after i installed it i tried running crysis on full detail and it actually ran well. My pc is a core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 3gb ram and 1 8800 gtx. So a sli system isnt required to play it at full i think. So in otherwords pc gaming isnt as rediculously expensive like you people think.