This game is truly a masterpiece. The true interaction with the game world is just amazing. I think I’ve found a couple bugs. At one point, I was in the path of another character walking, and they walked right through me. Then another time I got stuck for a second in a rotating door.

The one thing that just really pissed me off, no multiplayer options in half-life 2! I know counterstrike source has the multiplayer, but I really despise online team play. What ever happened to just regular deathmatch? I'd think when you require online authentication to even play just the single player, they'd include the multiplayer code from the original halflife. I'm almost ready to call my credit card company and cancel the payment just because of the missing multiplayer. (plus the fact that sometimes during gameplay I’ll get a steam auth ticket has expired, please re-authenticate with steam) even with the remember password box always checked

Yeah, the physics system still has a few bugs, but it works well enough to make for an enthralling and engaging experience. Although it causes a few pretty serious irritations in counter strike.

I know what you mean about how not including regular deathmatch is a big and surprising omission. Your sentiments are echoed in every review I've ever seen of the game.

They've been saying all along that "Counter Strike Source is the multiplayer component of half life 2", but I think that's sort of a cop-out. CS:S feels like a completely different and independent game to me.

The good part is: With the SDK released, I'm sure we'll see HL2 straight-deathmatch as a third-party mod almost immediately. So have no fear.

I never cared for Counter Strike from the original Half-Life. The best was TFC as far as I was concerned. I really, really, really hope we see a follow on with the Source engine.

- Tim

Daikatana isn't vaporware. It might have taken forever to come out, but it was eventually released. It was horrible though, so maybe you choose to ignore that it actually exists.

Found a bug. See the attachment.

Hmm... Looks like a Microsoft ad.

-jk

You know, I was really expecting a shot of a bug-moster there. I was dissapointed to find it really was a software bug!

It gets worse around that corner. Almost every texture is missing, leading to nasty hall-of-mirrors effects, and being totally unplayable.

Time for a new video driver?

The steam forums talk about some people having that wireframe problem a lot in Counter-Strike: Source. I don't know if a 100 percent solution was found or not. The first suggestion everyone has is always "The software is missing some files, delete it and reinstall it."

Which is a large pain if you downloaded the thing. And I'm not even sure if that fixes the problem or not.

Have a scrape round the steam forums and their FAQs and see if there is a definitive solution.

Yeah, that's odd. I have yet to run into that issue (and hope I never do).

That does suck very much. I agree that Steam needs this repair mode.

You found the hidden wallhack mode, secretly put in by the CounterStrike fans at Valve so they might have a chance at beating all the other hackers plaing CounterStrike.

I'm loving it so far. I'm at Nova Prospekt, and I've been taking random screenshots as I go along. I've posted what I have so far here (pics of "dog" starting on page 7 ). For some reason I didn't take screenshots of a few sections. I think I was just too caught up in the action and forgot. Oh, and the game would look a lot better if I had a better card; I only have an FX 5600. Although, I think it looks pretty damn good for my card.

The voice acting and the writing for the game is just awesome, btw. There are some good "chase scenes" that really get the adrenaline going.

ive been doing the same thing. not so much random, though. i shall put mine up later.

turn on AA, at least to 2x!

Yeah, It'll probably kill my computer. I'll try though.

About how long do you think it took?

I didn't measure, but I think it was close to the 15-20 hours estimated in the reviews. Possibly a bit longer because I played on the harder difficulty setting and had to reload some scenes a lot of times.

By the way, about those screen shots... Are you enamored of that one female scientist or what?