Half-Life 2
Half-Life was created by Valve in 1998. Fantastic adventures of a simple laboratory assistant Gordon Freeman (Gordon Freeman) in the top-secret research institute Black Mesa and on the otherworldly planet Xen (Xen) turned the genre of first-person shooters
Minimum system requirements
Processor: AMD Athlon 1200+/Intel Pentium 3 1.2 GHz
RAM: 256 MB
Video card: nVidia GeForce 2 MX/ATI Radeon 7xxx
Recommended system requirements
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2400+/Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Video card: nVidia GeForce FX/ATI Radeon 9xxx
Additional: Internet connection
Genre: Action Action
The deception of the population is put on a grand scale. The Source Engine is devoid of Doom 3's bizarre shadows, and its largest map will hardly cover one-sixth of any piece of Far Cry jungle, but it knows a lot about shaders and good photo textures that give the picture a rough earthiness of reality.
Faded paint on the bumper of a car, the glare of dim lights on the restless surface of an underground stream, naturalistic garbage in a dilapidated house - the atmosphere of City number 17 is woven from such trifles, filling the plot vacuum. There are no loud shades here, and the glossy bump mapping, which in other games seems to have been doused with sunflower oil, is used strictly for its intended purpose.
The Source Engine runs smoothly even on antiques like the GeForce4 MX. Sound optimization for many video cards and processors, debugged like an expensive Swiss watch, program code, and tricks with detailing distant objects work wonders. You can safely forget about the spectacular special effects available with DirectX 8 and above, but HL2 still looks pretty.
