An interesting find in an old PC Gamer

Section_Ei8ht · October 20, 2004 at 9:57 PM

I was sorting through an old pile of PC gamer magazines, and I came across this article in the October 1997 issue that featured Quake II.

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Yep, this article is the scoop when Half-Life was being built on the Quake I engine.

And an interesting thing to note. This article claims that Half-Life was to be released in December 1997. The acutal street date for hl was November 19, 1998; close to a one year delay...

Made me feel very nostalgic.

-Stratesiz- · October 20, 2004 at 10:04 PM

Valve basically remade the entire game between those two release dates.

Section_Ei8ht · October 20, 2004 at 10:23 PM

yeah, i was surprised when i made that connection. To remake the whole game on a new engine in less than a year is rather amazing.

At least they did not stop in the middle of the quake II production and wait for quake III (ala duke nukem forever)

mawibse · October 20, 2004 at 10:26 PM

Duke Nukem Forever.... wow that was a loooong tima ago..

Duff-e · October 20, 2004 at 10:40 PM

this game looks horrible, next

Kreigore · October 20, 2004 at 10:57 PM

memories

tnoh · October 20, 2004 at 11:03 PM

I would like to see more those "early stages" screens.

Taylor · October 20, 2004 at 11:26 PM

http://www.planethalflife.com/nostalgia/

KungFuSquirrel · October 20, 2004 at 11:26 PM

http://www.planethalflife.com/nostalgia/

KungFuSquirrel · October 20, 2004 at 11:27 PM

holy shit

Taylor · October 20, 2004 at 11:30 PM

Jinxed.

OL · October 21, 2004 at 12:37 AM

wow tay and kfs..

anyway,

i like that little sub article on 'worldcraft 2' (so now we have worldcraft 3 or 4 i guess.) PLANE CLIPPING! VERTEX MANIP!

zaphod · October 21, 2004 at 12:43 AM

so, I wonder what happened to mike harrington?

Minos · October 21, 2004 at 1:04 AM

http://www.planethalflife.com/features/ ... keint.shtm

zaphod · October 21, 2004 at 1:12 AM

yes, but thats from 5 years ago. Have you ever heard form him since?

JynxDaddy · October 21, 2004 at 6:05 AM

I want to play the Half-life in the pictures, looks way cool. with the crazy looking scientists and all..

mikezilla · October 21, 2004 at 6:38 AM

Quote from Section_Ei8ht

Yep, this article is the scoop when Half-Life was being built on the Quake I engine.

Half Life IS built on the Quake 1 engine.

its netcode is partly quake2's and NOTHING else.

Mazy · October 21, 2004 at 7:50 AM

awwww, tis so cute

mawibse · October 21, 2004 at 7:54 AM

Oh uh, not THAT discussion again!!

Evert · October 21, 2004 at 1:02 PM

Yeah I found some magazine around here a while back, all screens of Half-Life was taken in third person view.

It wasn't mentioned it was an FPS in the article either.

An interesting find in an old PC Gamer

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