Sounds interesting, perhaps I'll get it when it comes out...
Yeah right. The Unreal Tournament games hold that title. And UT2004 comes out in Feb, a month before Painkiller. People will be playing UT, not Painkiller.
Why do these idiot hackers do these things, they know that they can't get the full version, they can't play online, they get a crappy, bugridden version, and THEY DELAY THE GAME RELEASE DATE!
Arggg.
Mine is in my head currently but not for long. It's fun at first to design MP but after that, teh technicalities and little things make it booooooring. Single player is tedious but a lot of fun to write ^_^.
Didn't valve say that Striders are not Combine but affiliated with them? I think that Striders are the same race/army thing as Antlions, like the next step up from the big Antlions. Not Combine, but allied with them.
It looks like they're autonomous, they seem like an organic/mechanical...