Half Life 2 Demo

Akherousin · 12-21-2004, 04:00 AM

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A free demo of Half-Life 2 will be released later today. Featuring some of the amazing digital actors and physical gameplay that has made Half-Life 2 the leading contender for Game of the Year 2004, the demo takes players through some of the early levels of the game and later transports them to the area of the game known as Ravenholm. The demo will debut on ATI.com, and requires a Steam account to install.

The Half-Life 2 Demo will be releaed today at 1:00 p.m. PST

More at http://www.steampowered.com
Source at http://www.osnn.net/comments.php?shownews=11584

Strawberry knight · 12-21-2004, 04:15 AM

Downloading as we speak

What does it means exactly "and requires a Steam account to install" ?
Do I need to pay for registration with Steam?

mikeeegeee · 12-21-2004, 04:26 AM

nope. just download and make an account just like you would on anything

Strawberry knight · 12-21-2004, 04:49 AM

Thanks :thumbup:

Ranzy · 12-21-2004, 04:45 PM

Here's a direct download link.

Soupdragon · 12-22-2004, 03:21 PM

Warning!

In my case I had to delete steam first as the combined installer featured here didn't want to run on top of a working steam set-up.

(I had steam and didn't have HL2

)

After the install, I had to log back onto steam with my account details.

Pretty silly installer, if you ask me. :O

Ah well.

Can't wait for lunchtime.

Tried it out! Very nice indeed. I understand what all the fuss is about. Creepily long load sequence, though. Was worried that it had gotten stuck. (500 something RAM, which isn't so very much, these days). Ran rather well on my vid-card, though (An ATI Fire GLX1). Which was nice.