# Cool Half-Life 2 Screenshots **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [August 18, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870 "2004-08-18T18:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Vulcan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/the_vulcan/32/145_2.png) [@The\_Vulcan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/The_Vulcan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/21 "2004-08-18T23:06:26Z")
lol I read Kirupa’s post here, and then find this here. This one’s for the K’man. \*\* Smart tiles add reality to virtual worlds\*\* [color=Blue]17:47 18 August 04 [NewScientist.com](http://NewScientist.com) news service[/color] Intelligent floor tiles that allow a person to walk through a virtual environment while remaining in one spot have been developed by Japanese researchers. Full story [http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996299](http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996299) ---
**Author:** ![mdipi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mdipi/32/49_2.png) [@mdipi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mdipi)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/22 "2004-08-19T05:14:32Z")
> [@kirupa](#): > > [left]Yeah - for example, I know that ([**[u]this[/u]**](http://www.planethalflife.com/screenshot.asp?src=/features/articles/sigg04/phl_c17_Slide10a_hi.jpg)) isn’t real :P[/left] > [left] [/left] > > [left]This has to be my favorite pic: [http://www.planethalflife.com/features/articles/sigg04/index8.shtm](http://www.planethalflife.com/features/articles/sigg04/index8.shtm) [/left] Hate to break it to you kMan, but that _is_ real. :trout: Some of these are jaw dropping. But as stated, these could just be hi-res to just show what the concepts are, and could be tonned down later. ---
**Author:** ![Jasninder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jasninder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jasninder)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/23 "2004-08-19T08:07:44Z")
cool, is this game out yet? i mean on pc…demo something ? ---
**Author:** ![uber1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/779978/32.png) [@uber1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/uber1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/24 "2004-08-19T09:04:35Z")
> [@Voetsjoeba](#): > > Whoa ! Tell me this one is real and not from HL² ! > > ![](http://www.planethalflife.com/features/articles/sigg04/phl_c17_Slide08.jpg) and exactly how many video cards are we gonna need to run this and how many cpu’s ductaped together and cooled in a meatfreezer are we gonna need? huh? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Thierro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@El\_Thierro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/El_Thierro)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/25 "2004-08-21T13:14:26Z")
I clicked the link first, and I was browsing trough the pics when I noticed that fourth one and I thought “Dang, that looks real, I’m gonna post it”. Then I scrolled down and noticed this whole thread was dedicated to it :beam: ---
**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/26 "2004-08-21T13:24:20Z")
scrolled down? You mean to the fifth sentance in the first post? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Thierro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@El\_Thierro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/El_Thierro)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/27 "2004-08-21T13:27:25Z")
Yep :ne: The first thing I do is click the link in every post I see…some kind of neurotic habit I guess. Or just curiosity. Yeah, that’s it. Curiosity. _giggles nervously_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/28 "2004-08-21T14:31:24Z")
It doesn’t seem like the concept art is a lot different from the actual in game screenshot: ![](http://www.half-life2.com/img/screenshots/hl2_screen.Strider.gif) **size=1[/size]** **[size=1][/size]** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Thierro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@El\_Thierro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/El_Thierro)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/29 "2004-08-21T14:47:36Z")
Man…You’ll need like a NASA machine to run that :-/ ---
**Author:** ![cr125rider](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/cr125rider/32/534_2.png) [@cr125rider](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cr125rider)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/30 "2004-08-21T21:48:16Z")
I’ll go borrow Big Blue (is that the name?), the 3+ Trehert supercomputer to render georgouse scenes like those at 60fps. My computer would render a frame an hour of that, even with my new FX5600 card. ---
**Author:** ![mlk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mlk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlk)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870/31 "2004-08-23T15:05:07Z")
I’m 99% the street pic is real. If you browse through other pics you’ll notice that they used real world pics to show how closely the ambience was to that of a real pic… [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/119870.md?page=1)