Man, that's not Half Life 3. That's Matrix . The agents must avoid people who "wake up", and one possible solution is tell him that they are in a videogame called "Half Life".

The level designer and texture artists should be shot.

Joke's been done before.
Guess where it featured (HINT: The person I'm addressing this to is Richard Phipps).

um the site you linked is down.

Marcello

Heh, the sad thing is that faked photo isn't really that different from HL2, if you look at it. True, you would have to alter the levels tremendously (polycount on models as well), but it doesn't seem impossible.

No time at all. As far as I know, the trouble now isn't so much the engines, but the artists.

Actually i think the problem is that ... our computers are not fast enought to render photorealistic (Picture like professional 3d softare such as Lightwave, etc) in realtime. With dynamic lighting.

Have you not played Half-Life 2? It's beautiful, not photorealisitc, but close, and it runs on a decent modern computer. And what you see in Half-Life 2 isn't all the Source engine can do. Wait til the real Half-Life 3 comes out.

I made a pixel shader that renders all the graphics as if they were on an old machine, 8-bits graphics and low resolution. Requires a new card

Games could even let the players choose how they want to view them. Choosing between 8-bit emulation, green vector graphics and shiny subdivision surfaces could really make the game feel different. Of course the option would have to be limited to what the game makers want, lest their artistic vision be offended.

I think ICO (for the PS2) offered a possibility to, after beating the game, play it through again and have it look like an old film. I loved that game, perhaps I should try what it would look like that way...

Show me.