The arcade version of Half-Life 2 is back in the limelight as Taito and Valve have announced the official title and news that the game will be unveiled at the JAMMA arcade show in Japan this coming Thursday.
Late last year we brought you news of a plan to create an arcade version of Half-Life 2; now Taito and Valve have announced that the game will be called Half-Life 2: Survivor and will run on Taito's Type X hardware configuration. This announcement suggests that the game will not offer much more visually than it does on high end PCs as the Type X setup is comprised of PC parts and runs Windows. The truth is that Type X is a configuration that has not been tested to its full capacity due to the nature of most arcade games and H-L 2 will provide an excellent opportunity to do so.
Last year Taito had announced that the arcade version of Half-Life would include a single player story mode and an online mode that would connect players from arcades all over Japan. We only have a short wait until JAMMA where we will find out if these promises will be kept.
