Testing the cards on an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700-powered machine with 2GB of RAM, the single R600 card bested the solo 8800 GTX in basically every benchmark they tried, with common applications seeing minimal gains, but games saw between ten-percent (Half-Life 2: Lost Coast) and 42-percent (1701 A.D.) hikes.
ENGADGET: ATI R600 graphics card benchmarked, cruises by NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX
As a young adult I did own a Gamecube but I rarely played it, favoring the PS1 and especially the PS2 and the myriad PC games that kept coming out, from DOOM and Quake and other shooters on PC, to Diablo and the many uber-addictive strategy games and then Half-Life 2 and the rise of modern HD PC games, and finally the modern consoles.
Role-playing-games, and particularly action-RPGs, are my genre of choice, but a game like Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, or Bioshock are loads of fun.
Like other Valve titles recently released to Steam for Linux, Half-Life 2 is merely a beta for now.
There are plot twists and genuinely dramatic moments that made me think back to Half-Life 2 for a comparable experience.
Even a game like Half-Life 2, which was probably my first big PC shooter crush, felt pretty repetitive when it came to the badguys.
You already know that Half-Life 2 for Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and OS X is excellent, but have you tried it on Linux?
The first time I played Halo felt a little bit like the first time I played DOOM or the first time I played Half-Life 2.
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Half-Life 2 revisits Gordon Freeman and gives him an alien occupation to fight off and a gravity gun to help him with the dirty work.
This isotope, with a half-life of 2.6 million years, is not made in significant quantities by any process on Earth, but is expelled by supernovae.
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Few games carve out a space the way Half-Life 2 or BioShock did, or inspire me to actually finish playing the way the first Halo inspired.
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Oh, and if you want an update on Half-Life 3, Newell re-confirms that " Ricochet 2" is being worked on, so take that as you will.
Valve had helped to foster a vibrant game-playing community, creating influential titles such as Half Life, Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2, it said.
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