Half-Life 2 Gold [Oct 18, 2004, 2:19 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Vivendi Universal Games sends along the eagerly anticipated press release that Half-Life 2 has gone gold, and is scheduled to ship world-wide on November 16, 2004. Here's an excerpt:
LOS ANGELES (October 18, 2004) – Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) today announced that Half-Life® 2, the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed PC titles in gaming history, will ship to retail outlets around the world in November. The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004. The countdown to the highly anticipated retail street date has begun around the world, as VU Games completes plans to ship localized versions of Half-Life 2 simultaneously in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai and Japanese.
“Half-Life 2 has surpassed our expectations in every sense – its high-quality graphics, ground-breaking physics and immersive first-person shooter gameplay set a new standard for PC action games,” said Bruce Hack, CEO of VU Games. “Half-Life 2 will go down as one of the best-selling PC titles, and we are thrilled to deliver this ground-breaking title to the worldwide gaming community this fall.”
I just read the PC Gamer review of Half-Life 2. The reviewer was slobbering all over the article so much I could barely read it. But since it got a 98% rating I guess it must be an O.K. game.
Of course, back when PC Gamer gave Doom 3 a good rating they were "not a reliable" magazine according to certain internet message board self-proclaimed experts.
But now that they have drooled all over Half-Life 2 and given it a 98% I'm sure PC Gamer is now the most reliable magazine ever for correct reviews or whatever.
As usual for me, I have nothing worthwhile to say in this post, but I thought I make one more notch in this thread as it approaches the much sought after 300 mark. We are currently hoping that the 300 post mark will somehow help to validate our collectively meaningless online existence.
Amen
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
Of course, back when PC Gamer gave Doom 3 a good rating they were "not a reliable" magazine according to certain internet message board self-proclaimed experts.
But now that they have drooled all over Half-Life 2 and given it a 98% I'm sure PC Gamer is now the most reliable magazine ever for correct reviews or whatever.
As usual for me, I have nothing worthwhile to say in this post, but I thought I make one more notch in this thread as it approaches the much sought after 300 mark. We are currently hoping that the 300 post mark will somehow help to validate our collectively meaningless online existence.
Amen
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
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