What was the next level of visuals we could reach? No limits "We had to think about the future, had to come up with a strategy for post Half-Life 2 art. Valve's Victor Antonov explains the rationale about the level, which will require a 3.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and a top spec graphics card: "Three months before shipping Half Life 2 the art and production team were shutting down," he recalls. More details of this intriguing prospect have been published in an exclusive Half-Life 2 feature in the May issue of the UK PC Gamer, out today. But while many of us went out and upgraded to a gigabyte of RAM, stuck in a high-end Radeon or GeForce and spent a fortune, it's pretty clear that our PCs had plenty of headroom left - and now Valve wants to take advantage of that with the forthcoming release of a specially designed level called 'The Lost Coast'. Is this a significant drawback? Definitely not, because the most important is the impression.As refreshingly optimised as Half-Life 2 was to run on low and mid range PCs, there's no doubt that a hugely significant chunk of its owners went out and upgraded their rigs with the specific intention of playing Valve's game without compromise, in all its staggeringly gorgeous glory. But back there it wasn’t even impossible to break the computer monitor in game. Well, what did you want from the 2004 year game? Nowadays of course you can interact with everything, carry it with you or use it as a weapon. This speaks of the jewelry endurance of the playing time. The episodes end exactly where it gets boring. The player will not be bored even for a second: either you solve puzzles, then you try to get out of the trouble alive, then you watch the plot whirlwinds. A huge number of opponents against a small detachment of resistance, spectacular battles, ruthless murders – this is practically the real world in which the whole story is as believable as possible. The development of events takes place in the Black Mesa Corporation. We can say that the second episode is the canon of the 3D Action genre. The success of this franchise began with the first part of the game.
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