

Then Half-Life 2 came out in 2004, being the first game to utilize valve’s newly developed source engine, this game pretty much took the franchise to the next level in it’s entirety, the visuals in this game were pretty much completely next-gen for the time, hardly any PC could run the game properly at the time unless you had a very expensive gaming rig and this game still would stress this computer immensely, this game featured advanced physics, animation, sound, AI, graphics, and narrative that again, it was not common on games during that time.

when the first Half-Life came out in 1998, it pushed the boundaries of technology so much for the time that literally no game looked anything like it, its seamlessly flowing narrative, presentation and realistic gameplay were top notch for the time this game alone set the standard of how story driven first person shooters were going to be and boy did it set it, the first Half-Life received universal acclaim and it won over 50 PC Game of the Year awards. Half-Life games have been known for pushing the edges of hardware with each release and that has been true since the first release all the way to the latest one. Now this may obviously be an error by the website itself, but I believe there is at least a 5% chance that this means that we may end up seeing the announcement of Half-Life 3 closer than we might think and I will list a couple of reasons why:
