Troopr-Undr-Fir Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Click here to see larger image Bellevue, WA, July 14, 2006 - Valve®, developer of the blockbuster series Half-Life® and Counter-StrikeTM, unveiled Team Fortress® 2 and Portal, two new games to be included in its next release, Half-Life® 2: Episode Two. In addition, the studio announced its plans to deliver these products, plus enhanced versions of Half-Life 2 and Episode One, in one tremendous package for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. "By evolving our development process to an episodic approach, we're able to reduce risk from things such as schedule and funding and invest more in new types of gameplay," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "This allows us to produce innovative titles such as Portal and Team Fortress 2 and deliver them in a timely fashion to customers along with Episode Two." Episode Two advances the 16-million unit selling franchise, as Valve's trilogy of episodic single player releases continues the award-winning story of Half-Life 2. Armed with new weaponry and vehicles, Dr. Gordon Freeman must race through a countryside riddled with an increasingly fierce Combine threat. Team Fortress 2, an all-new version of the title that spawned team based multiplayer action games, features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date. Players choose from a range of unique character classes such as medic, spy, sniper, or engineer and must work together to complete a variety of tactical objectives. Portal is a new type of single player game that changes how players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment in a manner similar to how the Gravity Gun changed our approach to how an object may be leveraged in any given situation. Team Fortress 2 and Portal will be included with all retail and Steam versions of Episode Two for the PC. In addition, these products plus Half-Life 2 and Episode One will be available in one tremendous offering for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. New videos from Episode Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 will be released next week. yay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Saw this a few days back. Definately makes EP2 sound sweet... (now i just need to play Half Life2 and Ep1 to catch up!). Much to my surprise the majority seems to like it. I thought all the fanboys would start wailing that it didn't look "realistic" and that it didn't look like every other team based modern combat game out there. Refreshing to see that on the whole I was wrong and people still appreciate art style occasionally. PS/ If anyone does start whining about them ruining it then they obviously never player the original, which had pretty cartoony looking characters as well. PPS/ Almost looks like the art style from The Ship.. which looks like a very interesting HL2 mod/game. PPPS/ If only it wasn't for stupid steam and their stupid (and probably illegal) refusal to let people sell their copies of HL2 then i'd have played it by now. Its been impossible to find in any shops round here, especially at a decent price. I'll keep looking and maybe i'll get to play HL2 by the time EP9 comes out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermie Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 It looks awesome, I enjoyed 1, although I discovered it late, so there was mostly bots on the servers. =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 ...Team Fortress® 2 and Portal, two new games to be included in its next release, Half-Life® 2: Episode Two. In addition, the studio announced its plans to deliver these products, plus enhanced versions of Half-Life 2 and Episode One, in one tremendous package for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. So that means that they'll be packaging TF2, Portal, HL2, Episode 1 and Episode 2 in one package? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Mother of god There's a video of portal there. Holy freakin hell I need that game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coupes. Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Highly inspired by Prey's portals system, but this looks to be much more evolved and pretty darn fun ! High-res FTW : http://media.pc.ign.com/media/842/842671/vids_1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Or alternatively: not inspired by prey at all. The team behind portal made a freeware game called Narbacular Drop which is basically exactly like Portal. Well before Prey came out. Valve then hired them to make a game on steam. You can try out the stupidly named Narbacular Drop at http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/ Be aware its basically just a tech demo, as they never finished it once they got hired to work on portal. Its still quite interesting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWally Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 http://media.pc.ign.com/media/842/842671/vids_1.html *Mind Explodes* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 *Mind Explodes* Narbacular drop actually makes my head hurt... its a great idea for a puzzle game, but too much running through portals can get very disorienting. I managed to pull off the thing where you get an object bouncing between two portals with one of the torches in ND.. so the light source was bouncing between two locations. That was fun. "If at first you don't succeed..... ...you fail." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWally Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Oh wow, they are going to release portal seprately, no? Because I HAVE to buy that game! O.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermie Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 TF2 teaser: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 grin. I like the soldier bashing his head. Though I gotta say i have a soft spot for the bond-esque spy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWally Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 You can try out the stupidly named Narbacular Drop at http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/ Be aware its basically just a tech demo, as they never finished it once they got hired to work on portal. Its still quite interesting though. Bandwidth limit exceded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Geez.. its been there for months... every comments thread about portal must have degenerated into people saying it copoed Prey, and others refering them to the ND site... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Narbacular drop was fun as hell. And yes, it got disorenting quick if you did it wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Torque Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I have absolutely no clue what this game is, but it sounds really cool. The only thing I wanted to say is that the Valve production building is literaly the view from my bedroom in Bellevue. Do I get extra credit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Not until you get ninja skills and steal a copy of portals, then no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Since this topic seems to have gone mildly OT with the Portal game, i'm going to take it even further down that route with this cool video of them showing off the '98 version of prey... the one that had user creatable portals and destructible level geometry... and actually looked more like Portal and a great game than what we got in 2006 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7844987544204140976&q=interview+prey That game would have blown everything else away back then when we all had quake 2 and 233Mhz machines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I like the graphic design alot, I guess they realized that a game doesn't need über realistic graphics to be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coupes. Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 I didn't know such technology existed back in 1998... that's really amazing what you could do with a vodoo card and a 266 Mhz system. Thanks for the link toms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Portal looks a lot like Prey, but technically Portal was there first? I dunno, people will say Valve copied 3D realms, because they showed their title off first. And TF2 reminds me a lot of Worms 2 for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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