HALF LIFE DREAMCAST MOD PC

Even the game's official strategy guide, published by Prima Games made it to market - there was no game to accompany it, but the publication still went on sale.

Not only had the game been reviewed highly by publications on both sides of the Atlantic, retailers had been equipped with promotional material and display stands - everything except the game itself. Half-Life was not the only Dreamacst game to be delayed into 2001, only to then be cancelled, but it was the most high profile case, having received extensive magazine coverage through the latter half of 2000.

HALF LIFE DREAMCAST MOD PC

By this point it was the middle of June 2001 - Blue Shift had been released as a PC expansion pack (alongside the 'High Definition Pack', upgrading all the in-game models), and much of the re-worked assets were being used in an upcoming PlayStation 2 version of the game, which launched in November 2001. Despite the game being finished, publisher Sierra On-Line, pulled the plug on the Dreamcast version a few weeks before release due to 'changing market conditions'. However, despite being publicised, the game saw an unexpected delay to mid-2001, by which point the Dreamcast console had been officially discontinued. The initial plan was for the game to be released for the 2000 holiday season, with ancitipated for a release in North America and Europe during September 2000 (a date it missed - DC-UK later claimed it would arrive in Europe in November of that year, priced at the usual ВЈ39.99 in the UK ). The nature of Half-Life's cancellation makes it perhaps the most notorious unreleased game for the Dreamcast. ДЄll of the models in the game were updated to take advantage of the Dreamcast hardware.

While the core game was set to be released in late 2000, a special online-enabled version was also planned for early 2001, which would have included Team Fortress Classic. The Dreamcast version would not make an official playable public appearance until the first annual Gearbox Community Day 2011 which featured the last completed build as part of their legacy showcase. Rather than being a straight port of the game, the Dreamcast version featured higher polygon models than its PC counterpart (about twice as many polygons overall) and would have included an exclusive side-story titled Half-Life: Blue Shift. Half-Life was demonstrated at the European Computer Trade Show in 2000, being praised by the press and featuring as a cover story in many gaming magazines of the era and even in a television advertisement.

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