Half Life 2 Demo Available!

[Jonbo298]

http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/halflife2demo/index.html

Anyone who hasn't tried HL2 yet and can run it, check it out!

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/halflife2demo/index.html

Anyone who hasn't tried HL2 yet and can run it, check it out!

or you can just get the real thing :)

[Canyarion]

Woa!!!! I'm SO going to play this! :D This is great. Thanks for the link!

[Happydude]

finally...i can get a taste of what i want to get...:rolleyes:

*sigh* i wish i had a job :baby:

[Jonbo298]

or you can just get the real thing :)

It's no different from the real thing. Its a demo from actual levels in the game. Some people cant afford to shell out $50-$55 for a new PC game so a demo is enough to hold them over til they can get the full game ;)

[Typhoid]

*Reads Title of thread*

:D

[Blackmane]

I'm glad I have the game so I don't have to be tempted by the demo. I am also saddened because I am home for the holidays and away from my computer which houses my lovely HL2.

*sigh*

I want school to start...

[Jason1]

Cool...hopefully this will help it sell copies. It sure as hell deserves to have more sales of any game in recent memory...

[GameMaster]

I can't wait to play a demonstration copy.

[Canyarion]

Ok, 27%. Going at 55kb/s... but I'm also downloading the newest WoW beta at the same moment, so they are competing for bandiwth I guess. :p

[Null]

Cool...hopefully this will help it sell copies. It sure as hell deserves to have more sales of any game in recent memory...

well its already the 2nd highest online played action game. 2nd only to the original Half Life.

but its actually the original Counter-Strike as #1 and CS Source as #2. but they're still mods of half life 1 and 2.

man, i love CS Source now. :) never liked the original CS much.

I'm assuming the demo doesnt include a demo of CSS?

[Happydude]

no it doesn't...unfortunatly...

[Canyarion]

Stupid FireFox.... I paused the download for about half an hour... it couldn't resume after that. :(

[Happydude]

the game is awsome!!!...i want it so bad :(

[Canyarion]

Played it and beated it. Got me hooked for 3 hours straight. :D

The Gravity Gun is just.......... unique.

[Blackmane]

The Gravity Gun is just.......... unique.

Yes....and you haven't even seen it's better half... ;)

[DeathsHand]

Yes....and you haven't even seen it's better half... ;)

It's much much much better half... (^_____^

I think there's a code to use that'll give it to you at any part of the game...

It was my dream to do that, however that was before my life was taken over by World of Warcraft, so I havn't tried it yet...

[Canyarion]

Does the whole game has this sick feeling to it? It almost feels like Resident Evil, with all these bodies hanging everywhere...

I have to admitt, after 3 hours I was glad it was over... it made me feel a bit sick.
I got ill later today, I wonder what caused what. :)

[Happydude]

i gotta admit...teh atmosphere in the first one was better because it was bright, there were hardly any dark and bloody areas...

[thatmariolover]

Man. This is the perfect game to bench my new graphics card. Granted, I'm in desperate need of a RAM upgrade (and I suppose my CPU will bog me down in a year or two), but now I can be sure that I can game into the next few years without a hitch.

CPU: 2.26GHZ P4
GPU: XFX GeForce 6600GT AGP8x
RAM: 512 MB

Those are the major specs right now. But I upgraded my card from a GeForce 4 MX 420 - which doesn't even have pixel or vertex shader support. So it's a huge jump for me.

I can now run HL2 with everything on full save for resolution 1024x768 (my flat screen monitors highest resolution) and 16x Anistropic Filtering with no framerate hiccup save for loading periods.

I'll definitely be picking up the full thing this Friday.

[Blackmane]

Does the whole game has this sick feeling to it? It almost feels like Resident Evil, with all these bodies hanging everywhere...

I have to admitt, after 3 hours I was glad it was over... it made me feel a bit sick.
I got ill later today, I wonder what caused what. :)

No, the entire game is not dark.

I haven't played the demo, but i'm guessing you got to play Ravenholm?

There are a lot brighter and, In my opinion, funner areas.

[Happydude]

i got the game on monday...it's sweeeeet :p

i play on mostly medium setting, even though i could run them on high without any problems, it's just that when playing CS, high settings tend to make me lag sometimes and i dont feel like changing them everytime, so i just leave them on medium-high.

[Null]

dont have to actually. HL2 settings are seperate from CSS settings and every other mod.


they all keep thier own settings when they run.

[Happydude]

oh....ok...didn't know that...