Finally! and ooOOOooo :)
[thumb=games/sniper.png]Well it looks like TF2 is finally going to come out, after all this time. It will be shipped with Half-Life 2: Episode 2 late this year or early next year (release date keeps jumping around). They’ve gone in a whole new direction with the graphics this time, making it look like something out of a Pixar movie. Personally, I love it. I think the cartoony characters will bring more fun to the game as each character class has been designed stereotypically. The trailer itself made me chuckle a few times. I can’t wait for it to come out… I’ve been waiting since Y2K 
Anyways, if you haven’t seen the trailer yet go check it out (apparently it’s on steam but I haven’t checked since I’m on my linux laptop at the moment.
[thumb=games/portal.jpg]Another game that is getting shipped with Episode Two is Valve’s Portal. Originally this was thought to be a new weapon in your arsenal for Episode Two but has been clarified to be a completely seperate game/mod. From the trailer it appears as a puzzle game where your only weapon is this gun that can tear a hole in 2 surfaces and link them together. You will use these portals to get from room to room, bypassing obstacles and eliminating sentries. The cool thing about the Portal trailer is that it looks as if you can make more than 1 portal at a time, I’m not quite sure how it would work but I think each time u create an extra portal the old of the 3 will dissappear leaving a new portal link. This is demonstrated in the trailer where the player makes a portal on the roof and then on the floor and falls through them repeatedly picking up speed, then makes a portal halfway up a wall, the fall momentum is carried through into the new portal and the player is fired like a bullet from the portal on the wall. Very cool. I think, this game will go down extremely well, bringing a new genre to the same engine. Plus I always loved playing with portal effects, especially in the UT engine 
Anyway, can’t wait for either of these games to come out… gonna be awesome
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By Jargon, July 23, 2006 @ 12:19 pm
More screenshotz0rs!
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By Richard, July 23, 2006 @ 4:23 pm
Both the trailers are on Youtube.
It also looks like the technology from portal is going to make its way into Garry’s mod, theres no “offical” word from Garry but theres already a SWEP gun for garrys mod 9 that alows you to do it already; it uses render target sprite for the effect so its a hack but its too much of an awesome feature to leave out.
By Jargon, July 23, 2006 @ 10:18 pm
Garry’s Mod version 9? You sure? I play v9 all the time and I’ve never seen it :S is it a mod for GMOD? has someone else made it?