Half Life 2 was a system whore, it sucked my entire system down the drain, I had to upgrade my RAM just to play it well. Yet with Doom 3, which was running a couple months earlier on the same machine, it was perfect, with practically no stuttering.
Half Life 2's "shadows" are usually just fuzzy blobs for me, even though I have the detail set to highest. Also, everything in Half Life 2 lookd much more...sterile or something, cartoony might be the right word. The objects in Doom 3 looked like they sort of had depth or something, like they were actually there. Half Life 2 looks good -as a game, not as a representation of the real world. It looks like how a
game should look, while Doom 3 looks more like how a game that's trying to look
real should look, imo.
And anyway, you can get a duct tape mod that puts a flashlight on the ends of your shotgun and assault rifle (I use it!)
