The guys over at CnVG have managed to get an exclusive preview and playtest of HL2, if I am honest this game has been dragging on for too long but when i read the preview its certainly beginning to wet my appetite again.

It's hard to believe that it's been a year since Half-Life 2 was announced, but finally, after months of silence from developer Valve after part of the game was stolen by opportunist hackers late last year, we've been invited back to Seattle to play the latest version of the game. You may well have got sick of waiting for HL2 to appear - perhaps the release of Far Cry has satiated your lust for a ground-breaking shooter. But as you're about to find out, there's just as much reason to be excited now as there was 12 months ago.

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