HOLY SHIT BATMAN !!!!!!!! HL 2 GONE GOOOOOLD

[Mendasp]

I have to say...

[Urban]

[RD]

how do we know its not a scam? Its not on steampowered or vivendi.

[GrayFox]

Restart Steam and look at the news.

[RD]

[Urban]

rd = owned

[kleinluka]

how do we know its not a scam? Its not on steampowered or vivendi.

http://www.vugames.com/news_story.do?storyId=1963

Get your facts straight

[Tisky]

This company has everything to do with,

This picutre:

[Taylor Swift]

Pc Gamer 1998 - Half Life - The Awsome Quake2 Beater!

Pc Gamer 2004 - Half Life2 - The Perfect Doom3 Beater!

Half-Life series "Really Beats" other games like small flyes.

[kleinluka]

let's wait till we play it =)

[-Stratesiz-]

All the magazines that have reviewed HL2 so far have been issued with special exclusive rights in return for biased reviews giving superlatives a new meaning.

The real reviewers won't get a chance to play HL2 until 15th. PC Gamer is the source of all evil!~

[GrayFox]

Calm down with the conspiracy theories, Stratty...

[FrieChamp]

He got a point though. The (2nd) biggest German mag about PC games started to boycot these first-hands-on reviews which are made in the office of the developer. There definately is a difference between playing a game "at home" for days or even weeks or playing it for 1-2 days while the creators stand next to you (who try to influence the player by emphasizing good and neglecting bad aspects of their game).

So as a player, I must admit, the recent trend to invite writers for reviews is a step backwards in my opinion.

[-Stratesiz-]

This leads to the fact that they most likely won't even have time to play the whole game thru, which explains the ridiculously flat reviews that have no content whatsoever.

Games are big business today, but it's getting a tad out of hand in my opinion.

[Tequila]

I really don't think it's anything as sinister as that, Strat. Reputable mags, especially Edge, would never review it without completing the entire game; it just isn't their policy, no matter what the benefits.

It sounds like this German magazine was in the minority rather than the majority in the paperback world, and as such were rather vocal about it.