Its art designer, Viktor Antonov, later worked with Smith on Dishonored - where you can see a similar layering of steel atop the dwellings of Dunwall, effective shorthand for a ruler suffocating their people. The setting of City 17 proved the perfect partner to this philosophy, built from clean lines that conveyed a cruel alien regime without waste. “The game design in Half-Life 2 has a clarity, where you almost always know what to do in order to solve your problem, which results in a very satisfying mental state as you play you don’t just feel power and purpose, you feel freed from uncertainty.” “Deus Ex is a game about murky situations, where many solutions and partial solutions might be viable,” he says. The minimalism of Half-Life 2 appealed to Harvey Smith, too, then fresh from directing the sequel to Deus Ex. “Once you do decide to loosen the restraints, as with the gravity gun section of Half-Life 2, the payoff is much more powerful and surprising.” “Games are often overstuffed with content, but the Half-Life games demonstrate that restraint can actually punch much bigger than excess and bombast if all the tonal elements of the experience are working together towards a shared goal,” Remo says. And when it came out, he spent two evenings at a cyber-cafe playing through the campaign. While Half-Life 2 was in development, he consumed the words of Rossignol and his colleagues in PC Gamer.
“Catch-22, indeed.”Ĭhris Remo is one of those developers now working at Valve. “Then I imagine the task facing those developers who must attach their names to a sequel like Half-Life 3,” Rossignol says. Why hasn’t there been a Half-Life 3? Rossignol refers to Joseph Heller, who was once asked why he’d written nothing else as good as Catch-22: “Who has?”
“Unrepeatable happenings in space-time, thanks to a great conjunction of people and circumstance.” “It is one of those works of art that you understand are more like events than things,” he says now. A 20-something acolyte of the series, he was intoxicated, hyperbolically overawed. The Signal From Tölva designer still remembers entering a tiny cubicle office in Seattle as the first journalist to play Valve’s opus, half a decade in the making. Sell your grandmother, remortgage the cat, do whatever you have to do.” “It’s time to get that cutting-edge PC system. “This is the one unmissable game,” Jim Rossignol wrote in the closing paragraph of his Half-Life 2 review. Developers from Valve, Techland, Arkane and more breakdown the true appeal of a genre classic.
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