Half Life 2: Episode 1 – All Three Teaser Trailers
Unlocked on Steam tomorrow, in stores Friday
June 1st 2006 is a significant date for fans of PC games. Hell, it’s a significant date for fans of videogames full stop. Why? Because Half Life 2: Episode 1 is finally released.
The game is currently available to preload on Steam right here for a mere $20. It is stand alone, so you don’t need the original Half Life 2 to play it either.
If you are old-fashioned and want to wait to pick up a boxed copy, then you’ll be able to grab one in a store near you this Friday, courtesy of EA.
And without any further ado, here are the three teaser trailers that Valve has released on the game over the last few days to help whip up the hype.
Teaser 1
MPEG4 XviD (11.7MB)
Windows Media (10.8MB)
Teaser 2
MPEG4 XviD (8.9MB)
Windows Media (8.2MB)
Teaser 3
MPEG4 XviD (10.2MB)
Windows Media (10MB)
We can't wait to play Episode 1 - some SPOnG staffers having preloaded the game long ago. We’ll bring you our full review as soon as we’ve done that.
You don’t have to wait until Christmas for PS3, Wii, Gears of War and all the other 'too far off' promises of E3. This is a genuine gaming event. Right now. Slap bang at the start of the traditionally barren gaming season of summer.
Oh, and if you don’t have a decent enough gaming PC to run the game on. Shame. Go and get one. The PC is far from dead as a gaming platform, and there are many other treats in store coming up later in 2006 and 2007.
The game is currently available to preload on Steam right here for a mere $20. It is stand alone, so you don’t need the original Half Life 2 to play it either.
If you are old-fashioned and want to wait to pick up a boxed copy, then you’ll be able to grab one in a store near you this Friday, courtesy of EA.
And without any further ado, here are the three teaser trailers that Valve has released on the game over the last few days to help whip up the hype.
Teaser 1
MPEG4 XviD (11.7MB)
Windows Media (10.8MB)
Teaser 2
MPEG4 XviD (8.9MB)
Windows Media (8.2MB)
Teaser 3
MPEG4 XviD (10.2MB)
Windows Media (10MB)
We can't wait to play Episode 1 - some SPOnG staffers having preloaded the game long ago. We’ll bring you our full review as soon as we’ve done that.
You don’t have to wait until Christmas for PS3, Wii, Gears of War and all the other 'too far off' promises of E3. This is a genuine gaming event. Right now. Slap bang at the start of the traditionally barren gaming season of summer.
Oh, and if you don’t have a decent enough gaming PC to run the game on. Shame. Go and get one. The PC is far from dead as a gaming platform, and there are many other treats in store coming up later in 2006 and 2007.
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Chris C 31 May 2006 19:17
1/2
What happened to you offering movies as Quicktime? Windows Media works badly for me (and in this case not at all) and I've never heard of the other format before.
Quicktime works on practically all computers: Windows has the Quicktime plugin (which is often installed when you buy the computer and obviously Windows can play Windows media fine), Linux has xine and Quicktime obviously works on a Mac.
sorry it's off-topic, but 3 videos each unplayable got on my nerves
Quicktime works on practically all computers: Windows has the Quicktime plugin (which is often installed when you buy the computer and obviously Windows can play Windows media fine), Linux has xine and Quicktime obviously works on a Mac.
sorry it's off-topic, but 3 videos each unplayable got on my nerves
config 31 May 2006 20:03
2/2
The other format - MPEG4 XviD - is an open-source branch of the DivX format, and is widely supported - most DivX players will support XviD.
If you don't already have it, the greatest freeware multi-format, cross-platform media player - VideoLAN, handles them just fine. When if coomes to playing just about any video format, even the proprtietary WMV and QT codecs, VideoLAN rocks.
The reason we're not producing QT version is because the transcoder we're using is refusing to produce QTs of a reasonable size, regardless of the compression levels we set.
If you don't already have it, the greatest freeware multi-format, cross-platform media player - VideoLAN, handles them just fine. When if coomes to playing just about any video format, even the proprtietary WMV and QT codecs, VideoLAN rocks.
The reason we're not producing QT version is because the transcoder we're using is refusing to produce QTs of a reasonable size, regardless of the compression levels we set.