Just finished Half-Life 2 and...

[Scoobes]

HoloDust said:

Barozi said:

Well I think you got something mixed up here.

Doom 3 came out before Half-Life 2 and I think that Far Cry which came out before those two games was more technically advanced in graphics and AI.
But HL2 was definitely up there with the best.

Yeah, FarCry came before HL2, and it had much better graphics and AI. In fact, if memory serves me well, its AI is probably better than most of the FPS titles that are released these days.

There's a reason for that. They made the AI too good to the point it was unrealistically good and too... artificial. Enemies had ridiculous visual perception and could sometimes see you before they'd even been rendered on screen. Other than that, they didn't really do anything too impressive. The original F.E.A.R is probably a better example of decent AI as they had very good pathfinding and would actively flank instead of relying on robotic sensory perception.