I was wondering with my system is it worth buying doom 3 or Half Life 2 will run on my computer. I have a intel pentium 4 2. somthing gigheritz cpu and a gforcefx 5200 graphics card and 512 megs of ram. Thank you.

Yes it will.

HL2 at least...

HL2 Should run on that (it runs on mine - AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.6ghz, GEForce FX 5200 SE, 512mb RAM) but one piece of advice - if you can "patch" it to avoid steam usage, DO IT! (not for illegal purposes, just steam is a load of crap)

:thanx: Guys! what is steam?

the system that valve use to distribute updates etc but it also means you have to be online to play the game thats registered with it (i.e. half life 2) even if you just want to play single player *kill valve* which is why i hate it so much (plus its so buggy and bloats your hl install)

I'll tell you something about Half Life 2 - it's incredibly hard to steal off the internet for free. Damned anti-piracy. :P

i can gather that you tried (but failed :P) it's a matter of knowing where to go... (any futher elaboration would be pushing it) no encouragement meant in that comment, just careful phrasing (so just for anyone waiting to pm me, i won't give you links for it)

Could someone please tell me if doom 3 is going to run on my pc at any kind of dencent speed or graphic capbilities? I guessing that I need a way better graphics card for this game though.

best way to find out is download a demo of doom 3
Here
3 Level Single Player Demo

Err......I think that would be prety impossible because I am using dial-up. But thank you. Still would like to know about Doom 3 though.