Setting The Modern Standard
In 2004 Valve released the sequal to Half-Life, Half-Life 2. Just as the previous game Valve set out to create a game that would have ground breaking inovations that would change the video game industry forever. Half-Life 2 was run on Valves new game engine Source. Source unlike other engines at the time could not only create realistic 3D envionments but also realistic physics simulations for objects. After the release of Half-Life 2 popular games such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Portal, Dear Esther, and many others would use the Source engine.