Half Life 2 Survivor Videos
Most of us have seen the HL2 Survivor game pod things they have over in Japan. Well Gametrailers has a few..heh..trailers…of the game in action. It’s interesting to see how they’ve changed it to make it more arcade friendly. First off you can see little neon green arrows showing you which way to go, and they’ve also changed a few of the levels. One of the videos shows a fairly rememberable warehouse with the cargo container jumping “puzzle” removed and a ramp added to the other side instead. I’m not sure how the system works. If it’s a time-based thing where you have to keep putting in more quarters (or the Japanese equivalent) for more game time or if you get a certain amount of “deaths” or retrys per play. So I guess the level design changes make some sense. Best to optimize the players experience so they keep coming back. No good having a bunch of Japanese kids all angry because they got stuck and had to put in more money.
You also get to see several of the other game modes they’ve made. None of them look really intuitive. So your guess is as good as mine as to what the fsck is going on. The points system will come up at the most random of times and tally off your points and then the guy will keep going as nothing had happened. I don’t know about you, but I tend to get in a groove when shooting people and to have a message pop up in the middle of battle would kinda irritate me.
I think what intrigues me most about all of this is the game they chose to convert into an arcade. I didn’t realize how big HL2 was over there. The game is fairly heavy storyline based (even if you think the storyline goes no where) and to put that into an arcade where the storylines are typically loose and simple is kind of a bold move. Needless to say I seriously want to try one of these out. I think it would be a load of fun to try playing the classic shooter a different way.
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