Half-Life 2 Playthrough [Original Xbox Port]
326I was curious as to how this port performs given the Xbox's hardware. It turns out: Very poorly.
There are significant frame rate drops during every enemy encounter and in every section of the game. This port also features more loading screens compared to the PC version. Aside from that, I am not aware of any changes to the level design or enemy placement to cater to the Xbox's inadequate hardware.
Beware that you may be stabbed to death by jaggies if you let your guard down at any moment when watching this video.
Developed and published by Valve, Half Life 2 is a first person shooter original released on the PC in 2004. This Xbox port was released almost exactly one year later.
This was upscaled for youtube.
I had originally wanted time codes for each loading screen but quickly realized that was a terrible idea since this port has almost 90 loading screens. Below are time codes for the beginning of each chapter and any sections I feel are important.
00:00 Intro
2:10 - Game Start / Point Insertion
12:35 - "A Red Letter Day"
22:35 - Route Kanal
54:42 - Water Hazard
1:31:32 - Black Mesa East
1:47:10 - "We Don't Go To Ravenholm"
2:25:26 - Highway 17 (I skip all of the side areas.)
2:48:33 - Under the Bridge
2:58:07 - Sandtraps
3:32:29 - Nova Prospekt
3:53:20 - Entanglement
4:02:28 - Turret Defense 1
4:11:01 - Turret Defense 2
4:21:43 - Turret Defense 3
4:28:19 - Anticitizen One
5:19:24 - "Follow Freeman!"
6:02:31 - Our Benefactors
6:10:50 - Dark Energy
6:17:46 - Final Section (there is so much bloom during the apex of this section that you can't actually see Dr. Breen.)
6:23:02 - End "Cutscene"
6:24:36 - Credits
When I was going over the video to gather these time codes, I noticed 3 editing screw ups. Sorry. My hope is that if you've decided to waste 6 hours, 27 minutes and 20 seconds of your life watching this, you won't mind the fact that it could have been 6 hours, 27 minutes and 12 seconds instead.
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