October 17th, 2008
Half Life 2: Episode 3 – In 2010?!?
I know a lot of people who build a new gaming computer, and then jump right to Crysis, Age of Conan, or any other game that became notorious in the last year, maybe two, the most. That's fine, but I think most of those who get their first gaming computer these days are missing a lot of games, like Far Cry(the original, not the new one!), Warcraft 3(addons included) and, of course, Half Life and Half Life 2!
While Half Life, the original, may seem like a Ford T on the highway, these days, Half Life 2 is a game worth checking out, especially since Half Life 2: Episode 3 won't come out that fast. After all, despite its age - over 4 years now, Half Life 2 can still put most low-end video cards to the test when pushing settings to the max, and that's pretty good for such an "oldie."
The sad story is that when Valve announced the gaming community that Half Life 2 would get Episode 3 in time for last year's Christmas, everything was looking just great. Unfortunately, things proved to be quite different, since we'll soon reach another Christmas, and I see no sign of Half Life 2: Episode 3. I don't have eagle eyes, but I'm not blind either, so I have to ask: when will we get Half Life 2: Episode 3???
Talking to Kikizo, Doug Lombardi, Valve's the marketing director and official voice, made a terrible confession - "The next time you play as Gordon will be longer than the distance between Half-Life 2 to Episode 1, and Episode 1 to Episode 2."
Why such a big distance, to push Half Life 2: Episode 3 way into 2010? Well, it seems Valve is very busy to promote Left 4 Dead, its upcoming zombie shooter, but I only hope one thing - they won't leave all Half Life fans to die waiting for the third episode. After all, I am sure even some gaming chicks are waiting for a new encounter with Gordon Freeman, right? Anyway, since boys will be waiting for Alyx Vance to come join Gordon once again, we all have somebody to wait for, but 2010 sounds sooo far...
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Published by: Codrut Nistor in FPS
14 Comments on Half Life 2: Episode 3 – In 2010?!?
Posted by andrew 11/04/2008 9:51 pm
2010 it's soooooooo faaaaaaar aaaaway...that zombie-killing game..left 4 dead it's taking too much time from them..and i don't think it;s a great game...anyway..they said that they are going to show something from ep3 this winter...i hope they will...not lie again...
Posted by Codrut Nistor 11/04/2008 11:58 pm
Yeah, I fully agree with you. At least HL is more than just zombie shooting...
Posted by Hal 11/17/2008 4:33 am
"they won't leave all Hal Life fans to die waiting for the third episode."
Might want to fix that. Then again, I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave.
Posted by Codrut Nistor 11/17/2008 5:53 pm
Fixed, thanks for noticing that! :)
Posted by yadieet 04/05/2009 11:58 am
Oh no.. 2010 ??!
But.. the best game series take a long time to develop because..
Episode 2 must better than Episode 1..
Episode 3 must better than Episode 2..
The scenario and story too..
Posted by Tommy 09/23/2009 10:04 pm
I think we'll see HL3 by the fall of 2010. You can Google episode 3 concept art. Therefore, we know it's close. 2010 will be here before you know it.
Posted by badhou3a 11/24/2009 1:38 am
2010, ehhhhhh , i found in some sites that thedate game release will be at the end of november or december (2009) and someone who is a friend with bag newell ,visited the studios of valve and get this intersting info (he sad that face of alyx will be incredible in this last episode and facials explanaition will be better ,and minimum dx 9 (256 mg) level video card to run this game , indeed it's the best episode , and we still waiting a long time for it , i hope it will be in december
Posted by ionut 12/20/2009 11:45 pm
ok...now that would be a bigg kick in the balls for me cuz im running on a 128 mb video card....it should run on the half life 2 source and should have the same requirements....anyway its said to be released this year.....dont think so...but ho knows
Posted by badhou3a 01/05/2010 8:30 pm
ok i think it will be in 9 mars 2010 and i hope it will depend the same system requirement of the episode2 because my graphic card can't support pixel shader 3 ,anyway , shit all this patience and can't run the game!!!!! i will buy another pc ???!
oh ,maybe ,or..........i will do anything to play this final épisode
Posted by Gillarde 01/19/2010 10:52 am
But when an alarm went out with certainty in 2010 and month as me more živcira to hold. Half Life is celebrated because it is a very interesting game but did not have such a short episode 2 because I was driven in one day, ie 3 hours in the dark I get into the game and then we will continue in episode 3 so I can not wait to go out because I'm impatient. I can not wait to see what will happen with the Half Life Episode 3 ate or who may know? Ate who may have seen how it looks.
Posted by Kenny 01/31/2010 3:26 pm
Rumours say it won't come out even in 2010...
It's a shame, but I know this will be the best game of the next 10 years ! Better have some good specs, as they are completely rewriting the outdated engine.
Posted by Gillarde 02/01/2010 12:06 pm
and then announce that it will come out in early 2010 as a good game .. the first three acts that I miss even why it was announced in early 2010 will not go out when you eat you know when it came out and ate it even started working?
Posted by Josh 06/21/2010 3:40 pm
lol it's 2010 now, no game
Posted by Moro 07/20/2010 1:44 pm
Game was announced at E3 but didn't make an appearance due to "a misprint". Excuses, excuses, I wonder what great or horrible version they're trying to cover up :O
I'm a gamer chick, but this game is so different than others, who would of ever THOUGHT about half machine half insect artillery :O