{"id":868,"date":"2006-06-02T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T02:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/06\/02\/half-life-2-episode-one\/"},"modified":"2006-06-02T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T02:48:06","slug":"half-life-2-episode-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/06\/02\/half-life-2-episode-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life 2: Episode One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gordon and Alyx - Half Life 2: Episode One\" id=\"image867\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/half-life-2-gordon-alyx.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve started up Valve&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/steampowered.com\/\">Steam<\/a> gaming distribution client lately, you&#8217;ve probably already noticed that the oddly named <a href=\"http:\/\/storefront.steampowered.com\/v2\/index.php?area=game&#038;AppId=380\">Half-Life 2: Episode One<\/a> has been released.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of episodic gaming content has been done before, but this $20 release seems to be getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/pc\/halflife2episodeone\">strong reviews<\/a> from the gaming community.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is definitely short, giving roughly four to six hours of play for the average gamer.  Also, the game doesn&#8217;t stray far at all from the basic format laid out in the original Half-Life or Half-Life 2.  But for those who liked the previous game, and this  will no doubt be welcome news.<\/p>\n<p>Although the game uses the same gaming engine as Half-Life 2, there are some subtle differences.  If your video card is capable of using High Dynamic Range rendering, as seen in the Half-Life 2: Lost Coast tech demo, then you&#8217;ll be glad to know the feature is available in Episode One as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve started up Valve&#8217;s Steam gaming distribution client lately, you&#8217;ve probably already noticed that the oddly named Half-Life 2: Episode One has been released. The idea of episodic gaming content has been done before, but this $20 release seems to be getting strong reviews from the gaming community. The episode is definitely short, giving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/06\/02\/half-life-2-episode-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half-Life 2: Episode One&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}