You can also get this effect inside the occupied chapel atop the hill, where sunlight streams attractively through the windows that are conveniently broken out when the Combine chopper starts firing on the building. Looking toward the sun while climbing the cliff face, for instance, produces a harsh glare and makes it more difficult to see surrounding areas. This effect comes into play in a few areas of the level, most noticeably as a result of direct sunlight. Lost Coast also makes use of high-dynamic-range lighting, which allows the engine to render lighting of exceedingly high and low intensities. For one thing, the textures in Lost Coast are noticeably more detailed and numerous than in the retail game, and in addition to the immediate benefit of making this new level look especially neat, the release will also put these higher-quality assets into the game's SDK so modders can work with them.
Consequently, you'll purportedly need a 2 GHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM, and a GeForce 6800 or Radeon X800 video card to smoothly run the level at max detail. The map is based on a level that was cut from the original game, though Valve says this new revision gave them the opportunity to recreate a piece of Half-Life 2 without paying any attention to system requirements. The gameplay in Lost Coast may be old hat, but the graphics certainly are not. You'll even get to talk to an old man at the beginning of the level, who provides you with the impetus to head up into the hills and engage the Combine in the first place. You'll have to solve a couple of light physics puzzles as well, which we won't detail for the sake of preserving at least a little of the surprise. You'll occasionally have to deal with some of the more vicious sorts of headcrabs, and at the end you'll have to bring down a Combine gunship with Gordon Freeman's trusty rocket launcher. You fight your way up a sheer cliff face, trading fire with those pesky Combine soldiers every step of the way. If you've played through Half-Life 2, the gameplay in Lost Coast isn't going to set the world on fire. And now, of course, we offer our impressions of the experience. The secretive developer even went as far as to show a non-interactive demo of the relatively brief level at this year's E3, but today's G-Phoria awards show taping marked the first time we've gotten to hunker down and blast our way through Lost Coast, which offers high-dynamic-range lighting and much higher-quality art assets to make things look real pretty.
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