Ships Ahoy - Half-Life 2: Episode One [Jun 01, 2006, 6:42 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Valve announces that Half-Life 2: Episode One is now available via
Steam:
Valve Launches First of an Episodic Trilogy
Bellevue, WA, June 1, 2006 - Valve®, developer of the blockbuster series Half-Life® and Counter-Strike™, announced Half-Life® 2: Episode One is now available via Steamgames.com for just $19.95 and at retail outlets around the world.
The first in a trilogy of episodic games, Episode One reveals the aftermath of Half-Life 2 and launches a journey beyond City 17. Episode One does not require Half-Life 2 to play and also includes a first look at Episode Two, which will ship by year's end.
In addition to the new single player experience, two multiplayer games are included. And those who purchase Episode One will have free access via Steam (www.steamgames.com) to Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, the interactive technology demo that introduces High Dynamic Range lighting to the SourceTM Engine, Valve's award-winning game technology.
You have managed to take the wrong end of the stick very firmly here. The point isn't to say that EP1 has more plot than HL2 had, far from it. Rather the point is to show how EP1 has advanced and expanded the story.
Also for those who consider the opening sequence to be a cop-out, I'd suggest spending a little time chatting with a Vortigaunt in HL2. While you do have to wade through a bit of chaff a lot of what happens in that opening is directly hinted at by various responses.
If anything that is perhaps the biggest revealation in EP1, the Vortigaunts are shifting from being the slaves in Half Life into an unfettered force in their own right. Quite possibly the real long term salvation for humanity as the means to manage or close the portals the Combine use.
It is going to be fun to find out.
Also for those who consider the opening sequence to be a cop-out, I'd suggest spending a little time chatting with a Vortigaunt in HL2. While you do have to wade through a bit of chaff a lot of what happens in that opening is directly hinted at by various responses.
If anything that is perhaps the biggest revealation in EP1, the Vortigaunts are shifting from being the slaves in Half Life into an unfettered force in their own right. Quite possibly the real long term salvation for humanity as the means to manage or close the portals the Combine use.
It is going to be fun to find out.
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