Taito to release Half-Life 2 on arcades

[passerby]

Thanks to gamewatch.
http://watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20041101/hl2.htm

Taito will release the arcade version of 'Half-Life 2' in the summer of 2005. Play cost is still unknown. Taito will use their own 'Type-X' system, which runs on Windows XP Embedded. The game is described as 'based on Windows version, customized for the arcade'. 3 modes of play are availble - 'story mode', 'battle mode', and 'mission mode'. Internet co-op and competition is made possible by Taito's NETSYS.

The arcade machine is described as 'cockpit-style', with 5.1 ch surround and widescreen. The form of the controller is unknown.

 

[cthellis42]

That's really wacky. ^_^ Which means I like it! Hehe...

 

[Deepak]

What!? That means that they have inside information that HL2 is indeed being released.

 

[AlNom]

co-op?

 

[Guden Oden]

The easiest way of translating HL2, or any FPS, into arcade format, would be to turn them into an on-rails shooting game like Time Crisis/House of the Dead, etc. Typical PC FPS controls - mouse and keyboard - don't really jive with the arcade format since they're complicated and fragile. PC games also take a VERY long time to complete by arcade standards. We bitch and whine if a game gives less than 20 hours playtime. Arcade operators likely bitch and whine if a guy spends 20 minutes in front of a machine on the same credit!

 

[passerby]

co-op?

According to the article, that is 'mission mode', where a group of players cooperate over network to accomplish some objective.

 

[Farid]

The easiest way of translating HL2, or any FPS, into arcade format, would be to turn them into an on-rails shooting game like Time Crisis/House of the Dead, etc. Typical PC FPS controls - mouse and keyboard - don't really jive with the arcade format since they're complicated and fragile.

Behold Namco's Counter Strike Neo:

I agree about the fact that the game (solo player) in itself is definitely not suited for the arcades.