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.
So you think that this author has written everything we are seeing in the games to date and it's all part of a very detailed complicated story?
That's not what Beamer said, though. Valve obviously had a outline for their storyline before they began development, probably even had a full script lying around. Laidlaw's role was to make sure the plot worked and that everything meshed together. Especially for as good as HL was, some material Valve originally had drafted to put in the game probably looked cool on paper, but in practice it just plain didn't work. Writing a story isn't easy. I don't care how much role playing a person's done online, you can't just crap out a storyline and expect it to be of any quality.
Having said that and comparing the storyline's between the two games, it seems Laidlaw was given a lot more creative freedom for HL2's storyline, especially with the rather vague ending. It flows better than the first, I think, but reading some novels he's published in the past, I could pick out some of his distinct touches to the story.
Laidlaw's a strange guy.
This comment was edited on Jun 5, 18:01.
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