Arcade Heroes posted a bit of information today about Half-Life 2 ver 2.0 which is currently making it through testing rounds in Japan. The current testing cycle for the game will last from July 13th - July 26th, with plans of an early fall release of the update. I had a chance to play the original release of this game a few months ago, and it is a bit hard to describe really. The transition of Half-Life to an arcade game was a bit difficult to adjust to, despite Taito's best efforts to make it as accessible as possible. Over-all though the game was enjoyable, albeit a bit constrained by an attempt to try to do too much with a style of game that really had not been attempted in an arcade setting before.
But I digress.
This new version of Half-Life 2: Survivor is set to update the game in a couple of ways including more networked features, new maps, and more customizable options for players to use in both the Battle Modes and Cooperative Mission Modes. These new customizable options include skins and emblems that can be loaded to the arcade game via the network or your phone. Other new updates are tutorials for the game during load screens, and a new character class (Medic has joined the original 4 game classes - Ranger, Soldier, Sniper, and Engineer).
Ver. 2.0 will continue the game's support for the NESYS cards that allow for players to save their progress through the over-arching Story Mode from one game play to the next.
