Half Life 2 Beta Released!

Half-Life 2 Pre-Release Hits the Scene posted by rec @ 2:45pm
Tuesday 7th October, 2003
As most of you in IRC and on the forums already know, a pre-release version of Half-Life 2 has found its way onto Peer-to-peer, IRC, and web warez networks around the globe.

We ask all of our participants of our community, both in our IRC channel (irc.quakenet.org #halflife2) and our forum, to remain as sensible and calm about the situation as possible. We will not hesitate to ban users posting screenshots of the source, where to get the source, code from the source, the file name of the Half-Life 2 pre-release, where to get the pre-release or any content remotely similar to this likeness.

If you do insist on discussing the pre-release (in an appropriate, and legal manner), we would prefer you do it in our IRC channel (irc.quakenet.org #halflife2) rather than in our forums, for moderation related reasons.

Source:
http://www.halflife2.net/

*edit by Certis*
Do me a favor a lay off the all caps, multiple exclamation forum titles.

Poop. I had hoped I was wrong about this one.

Anyway, screenshots here:
http://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhac...

Movie here:
http://users.skynet.be/hacker/hl2_AN...

Edit: Also appears from at least on of the shots that multiplayer works. I predict an underground community will develop pretty quickly to enhance, flesh-out the game and will continue to do so.

I''m sure eveyone is aware already but just so we''re clear, I want no links or hints dropped in terms of beta download locations or anything like that.

Sorry for the topic Certis.
Won''t do it again.