The materials and models look like a mediocre fan mod.
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@a1ba @hj
The problem with such conversions is that the game initially had a specific art direction, and you're basically throwing that away. I'm sure steps can be taken to keep it consistent with the original, but that would take more work and consulting the original art director. But this is probably another cheap media stunt, like Quake II or Minecraft.
The remaster was made by Lightspeed Studios, NVIDIA's own game studio to push their hardware. They also ported Portals to Switch this year, and Half-Life 2 and Portal to NVIDIA Shield years ago.
And they not only licensed Valve's IPs, they also have few others, you can look up this yourself.
@a1ba @hj
Still, how often have we seen actual footage or images released by Tyler, while the game was still unreleased. Most he usually gives out during development is snippets of text tags and speculations.
I think he's well aware that HL2 could have been a very different game if not for the hack, that Valve's hand was forced into changing things, and it might very well hold true for Rockstar and GTA6.
Source code leaks are more fun, it helps in reverse engineering release builds and creating mods. Though, the same knowledge can be applied to make cheats, which may be a problem for multiplayer.
But as I said before, they still deserve that. Remember how Take-Two/Rockstar DMCA'ed a lot of fan mods just because mods were better than their own remasters? xD
