NeilT

Got my order placed with Gameplay - they managed a 1 day early delivery on Halo2 so hoping for same on HL2

Anyone played it yet? Its recieving the same ratings as Halo2 so far (www.gamerankings.com)

What a fantastic year to be a gamer!

Neil

ps - Halo2 - phew - superb!

scoob north

placed hl2 order over steam weeks ago gold version cs source is well impressive too

just anouying now as payed for halflife weeks ago and still have to wait not long now any way

kbsub

I ordered half life two over a year ago , supposed to be released september 03 !till someone nicked the code of the net , looking at the sceenshots and reading the reviews , gotta be the best game since Zelda Ocarina of time , now ive got a PC that can handle the graphics i cant wait

bluenose172

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Neil, even if you get it early you won't be able to play it I'm affraid. It needs to be unlocked via the internet.

bioforger

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I ordered mine from a bundled ATI 9800XT pack in April. Be interesting to see if it arrives on release date. I bet it wont.

messiah

whats the recommended spec?

RoadrunnerV2

Play sent mine out on the 13th ......... any day now for it to arrive

A'K

Got a question, if you buy half-life 2 from say play.com dose it come with the counter-strike source, or can you only get that from steam? I still play the old CS via steam at the mo

BuRR

You should get CS: Source with Retail HL2.

with Steam: Silver you get:

HL2
CS: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
Half Life: Source

and Valve's entire back catalogue

Daz34

Ordered my copy from Gameplay as well

Rob Walker

Came into work to have a quick go before I start work..then it spent 1/2 an hour decrypting the bloody files.. grrrr.. only managed about 15 minutes..

Now we've got some important visitors in work today and we've been told not to play games at lunchtime.. double grrrrrrrrrrr..

WallyBazoom

Ordered mine from Gameplay over a year ago and it's not arrived on release date.

Website said yesterday that it would be shipped by the 14th, checked today and it says it's on backorder. They better not have run out of stock.

MJW

I ordered mine from gameplay too, over a year ago. Checked into my account today only to find the order had been removed. So I just went to our local Blockbuster video and bought it there.
I'll bet a pound to a pinch of sh*t that Steam crashes tonight with fifteen billion people trying to access it simultaneously.

SiDHEaD

Steam servers have already been grinding to a halt with try again later messages!

ScoobyJawa

Ordered mine from Gameplay on Sunday night and it was here first thing this morning

Richard Curtis

Played 15 minutes lunchtime (pre-loaded via steam).

I got as far as the working kids playground . Shame its not multiplayer the see-saw and roundabout look full of potential comedy moments.

Graphics are superb - excellent textures and the best facial expressions I have seen in any game. Only downside so far is the long loading times, but I suppose its to be expected for the huge amount of detail that's in the environment.

I won't be getting home until 9pm tonight... counting the minutes.

stevencotton

What to do when I get home .. play HL2 or configure my new firewall .. decisions decisions!

mc5

Yep cant register it online tech support said it was to busy therefore cant play it.

Ridiculous

Milamber

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Who cares whose wandering around your machine, just play goddamit!!