Fonzerelli said: Valve have tried their hand at consoles. Half Life was gone on the Dreamcast, before it was cancelled and the project was shifted to the PS2 with an exclusive sidestory called Half Life : Decay starring 2 female assistants of Dr. Foreman with splitscreen co-op gameplay featuring primarily. The PS2 version of Half Life eventually hit about 1.25-1.5 million WW, not a great hit. The PS2 version had higher polygon count and improved graphics compared to the PC version. |
Yes it was very sad that the Dreamcast version was canned at the last minute,as they had upgraded it to the point that the PS2 version did not look any better than the DC one. They made Blue Shift just for the DC, and said that an on-line version was also in the works. The rumor later was that Sony had bought the exclusive rights to Half Life because the folks at Valve had told them the Dreamcast version would have been equal to or a little bit better than the PS2 version.
Luckily a Dreamcast beta version was leaked on-line so most DC owners were able to download a copy, it is one of the four unrealeased Dreamcast titles that even the most anti-pirate DC owner will look the other way when someone says they have a copy.
Sega made a developement kit just for the PC developers which is why so many PC games were ported over, as a matter of fact some of them could be played on-line against each other.
It would seem that there were folks at Valve who loved the Dreamcast as one of the major cheats was _ _ _ _ loves Dreamcast.