Cycopl

ANON is my hero

It's really hip and cool to act like you're against piracy nowadays. Whereas a couple years ago, downloading music was wonderful and awesome, nowadays downloading music destroys the music industry and also makes baby jesus cry.

The same goes for games. If you download games, you're a scumbag thief who deserves to be punished beyond the boundaries of the law. I strongly disagree with both though, if I agreed I would be a hypocrite. I honestly don't know anybody who downloads more illegal music or games than I.

But anyway, on the topic of games, ANON is following up on his word, and I love him for it. Remember two updates ago, when I posted parts of that nfo file, with ANON threatening to release more stuff? Well he released more stuff, and also came out with a couple surprises that make me very very happy.

"Well, this one here is Half-Life and Counter-Strike for Half-Life 2, so there already is something to play with and try to get working in multiplayer. Hurry, I wanna play :P"

- Anonymous leaker aka. Osama bin Leaker

Yes, you read that correctly. Half-Life AND Counter-Strike for Half-Life 2. These must have been planned to be bundled in with HL2, but it was probably meant to be a surprise.

Here's a screenie that I found of CS through the HL2 engine. Looks real enough to me, I don't really have any reason to doubt it's validity anyway.

Here's a screenie of HL1 being run through the HL2 engine. Nothing extremely different, but the water will look all purdy like in the CS screenie, and there's also some other stuff like shadows, reflective surfaces, etc.

Anyway, yeah. Apparently, ANON also leaked Condition Zero, but I could be wrong and it could be some other group. Either way, this has nothing to do with HL2 but I will be looking for this as well.

Posted by at October 10, 2003 05:23 AM