#HALF LIFE 1 XBOX 360 PC#

The gorgeous translucent look of the Combine gates in City 17 seems to have been scaled back to a fairly rudimentary effect in the screens below. As for proprietary fancy effects - those appear to be mostly off the menu too. You can also rule out advanced normal mapping (although Doom 3 proved that this was at least possible on the Xbox) and there won't be much texture filtering either. You can also see that the buildings in the background are extremely low resolution. The suits of the Combine guards below can clearly be seen to be lacking detail. Secondly, say goodbye to high resolution textures - these are far more functional than fancy. The Xbox 360 certainly will - but the standard Xbox won't.

Because the resolution is far, far lower, you will see a lot more jaggies - and you can forget about anti-aliasing, since there's no way the Xbox has the power to handle that. However, there's clearly some detail lost, and that's illustrated well by the next couple of screens. This means that the GeForce 2/3 hybrid hardware in the Xbox can render the game at above 30FPS.

#HALF LIFE 1 XBOX 360 PC#

Standard definition TV is 720x542, and this makes for a far easier rendering load than the 1024x768 that most PC gamers play at. Well, for one, the reason it's able to run on older graphics hardware is that the resolution of a TV is far, far lower than a computer monitor. Today, the games new publisher - EA, of all people - have released some new screenshots of the game up and running on Xbox. However, after a 'will-they-won't-they' period, Half Life 2 is definitely coming to Xbox and, what's more, it's almost done. However, with Source being such a beast - even on modern day graphics hardware - a console conversion always looked unlikely. Many games make more money on consoles than they do on PC, and so publishers are always keen to have multi-platform releases. The Source engine which powers it is recognised as being one of the best graphical engines on the market today, and is being used by a number of other developers who are creating games that are entirely unrelated. It's Half Life 2 - possibly the greatest video game of all time, certainly in our opinion. Surely this game needs no introduction by now.

Half life 1 xbox 360