If you got your facts straight you would know that Half-Life (And thus CS) is actually based on the Quake 1 engine and not the Quake 2 engine. Just pointing it out as it seems to be a common mistake to believe its Quake 2 engine.
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Weee i'm first!?!?!

These bink movies are fek*ng ace, its like watching from within the source engine (or it 'feels' like it atleast)
*GG* Valve
This comment was edited on Jul 17, 17:26.

Ooooh, mix Corn Flakes and Coco Pops, almost like forbidden fruit. yum.

But... I like Coco Pops aswell.

But... I like Coco Pops aswell...

I must tell you, i like corn flakes

I like Corn Flakes.

OMG Unreal 1 is such an underrated game (or atlest i feels like its underrated) imho it was one of the best SP game experiences I ever had. and YES!!! that bloody hallway where the lights went out, god knows i almost shat myself first time i played that part :X also the ending levels 'extreme dark' total darkness with only that search-light and those glowing skaarj, creepy as hell. many fine moments with Unreal 1 (Unreal 2 was sucha disappointment in comparison :()

That actually put me a bit off with half-life 2,
the body animations looked quite cack compared to the facial ones, which is a bit odd if you think about it.

As for stiff and wooden d3 animations, im not sure as what you mean, (hope ur not speaking of the zombies ;))
but i find it very smooth, for instance that monster that crawls down a pillar and into a shadow behind doom-guy's back in the trailer looks very fluid to me compared to anything else i've seen.

Even tho its not even a FPS game im really looking forward to Max Payne 2. Its gonna be nice to see what those crazy finnish coders have up their sleeves.

Deus Ex was a brilliant game, personally i think it was way better than Half-Life but probably they shouldn't be compared as DE was more of a FPS RPG with the 'illusion' of somewhat non-linear play. Im really looking forward to Deus Ex 2.

As for modification possibilities, Carmack stated early on that doom3 would be _very_ mod friendly, why else do you think all the tools for it are to be included with the game? (even in a nameless leak you could find some of these tools if you knew where to look) Besides you're missing one big point with doom3.

Im judging this only from the various trailers I've seen and from id software themselves.
The Animations: Any other game I've seen don't quite come close to the animations of doom3, personally I think Carmacks goal with doom3 is to take gaming a step closer to CG Movies (a'la shrek, toy-story, final fantasy, etc) when I watched the doom3 trailer I was really amazed by the cinematic quality of the game. As a matter of fact id stated themselves that they used motion capture for the 'human' actors ingame.

In the end its all about what tickles your fancy, do you prefer baseball or soccer? I know im gonna buy both games and play both games and I'd love to see Counter-Strike 2 on the source engine