# Cool Half-Life 2 Screenshots

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [August 18, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454 "2004-08-18T18:37:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**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 18, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/21 "2004-08-18T23:06:26Z")

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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)

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**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 19, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/22 "2004-08-19T05:14:32Z")

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> [@kirupa](#):
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> [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]  
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> [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.

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**Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/23 "2004-08-19T08:07:44Z")

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cool, is this game out yet? i mean on pc…demo something  
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**Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/24 "2004-08-19T09:04:35Z")

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> [@Voetsjoeba](#):
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> Whoa ! Tell me this one is real and not from HL² !
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> ![](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?

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/25 "2004-08-21T13:14:26Z")

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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:

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/26 "2004-08-21T13:24:20Z")

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scrolled down? You mean to the fifth sentance in the first post? 😛

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/27 "2004-08-21T13:27:25Z")

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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_

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/28 "2004-08-21T14:31:24Z")

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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]**  
🙂

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/29 "2004-08-21T14:47:36Z")

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Man…You’ll need like a NASA machine to run that :-/

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/30 "2004-08-21T21:48:16Z")

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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.

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**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-half-life-2-screenshots/61454/31 "2004-08-23T15:05:07Z")

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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…

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