
“Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, a single-player level custom-created to showcase High-Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) in the Source engine, is available now to all owners of HL2. As a technology showcase, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast’s system requirements are very high. During installation, Steam will prompt you if your system does not meet the recommended configuration. We hope you enjoy it.”
Ok, that’s what Valve say and it’s true. AS you probably know it’s free if you own a legal copy of Half-Life 2. As a playable level it’s quite good but not as good as I was expecting. Sometimes I think we expect EVERYTHING that is released by Vavle to be fantastic and it’s not.
Anyway, after reading a thread over on the google groups called Bored with Lost Coast? Useless things to do I decided to try them out. The screenshots below are taken from places you weren’t supposed to go! Just a little fun. These things appeal to my Beat-Testing nature!
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08 March 2006 at 9:31 pm
it’s originally from VALVE
it’s really amazing
it’s a lot of fun
but it’s tooo short to play…!!!
07 July 2008 at 11:32 am
I think that’s valve’s un-official demo version
19 July 2008 at 3:44 am
It’s short and stunning but not enough gameplay to make it a classic.