Half-Life 2

Publisher: Vivendi Universal Games

Developer: Valve

Category: Action

Release Dates

N Amer - 11/16/2004

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EMotion FX 2 Gives “Half-Life 2” a Face-Lift
Mystic Game Development has given RPG developers what they need most: lifelike emotions.

News

Valve® Uses the IMS V2A MDKTM in the production of "Half-Life® 2"
The IMS V2A MDKTM is a high-end enabling software tool

VU Games PC Line-Up Hits the Slopes at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Guests will be able to get a sneak peek at the multiplayer for both F.E.A.R. and S.W.A.T. 4

Alienware Develops Specially-Configured System Optimized For Half-Life® 2
Alienware’s Limited Edition Aurora™ City 17 System Allows Gamers to Experience Every Detail of Half-Life 2 at Maximum Settings

Half-Life 2 Available at Retail Starting Tuesday, November 16th at 12:01am
Why is the first minute of Tuesday, November 16th so newsworthy? This is the moment that game fans around the world have been waiting for!

Alienware Announces The Ultimate Half-Life® 2 System
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Description

1998: Half-Life sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. Valve’s debut title wins more than 50 game-of-the-year awards on its way to being named “Best PC Game Ever” by PC Gamer and launches a franchise with more than eight million retails units sold worldwide.
Now: Half-Life 2. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player’s presence affects everything around him, from the physical environments to the behaviors – even the emotions – of both friends and enemies. The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist, Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people – people he cares about – are counting on him. The intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source, Valve’s new proprietary engine technology. Source provides major enhancements in the advanced facial animation system, physics, graphics and AI

Hardware Requirements

Operating System: Windows 8/ME/2000/XP Processor: 1.2 Ghz processor RAM: 256 MB of RAM Video Card: DirectX 7 compatible graphics card Recommended Operating System: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP Processor: 2.4 Ghz processor RAM: 512 MB of RAM Video Card: DirectX 9 enabled graphics card