Today, on the Digital Foundry YouTube channel, we’re posting the latest in our PC Retro Time Capsule ‘let’s play’ series. This is a semi-regular feature that looks to re-examine classic PC releases from across the decades, replaying them using period-appropriate PC hardware and re-appraising them with the benefit of hindsight – and the use of our modern performance analysis tools.
Have you ever wondered what the original Crysis would have looked like way back in 2007 on an Intel Q6600 paired with an Nvidia GeForce 8800GT? We went there and the results weren’t pretty. Our latest episode concentrates on Valve’s epoch-making Half-Life 2, as played on three very different pieces of gaming hardware, while subscribers have likely already seen our three-way Battlefield 3 head-to-head from last weekend.
Typically, my colleagues – John Linneman and Alex Battaglia – tackle these kinds of videos on their own, but the choice of Battlefield 3 and Half-Life 2 brings DF Retro coverage into the era of Digital Foundry’s existence where I handled the majority of the content that made its way to Eurogamer, so there has been a particular kind of pleasure in revisiting these games and also re-reading coverage from back in the day.
