hmm, something up there, wonder what rig it was taken on? not a dx9 part i'm thinking, .. those antlions look all crappy, devoid of the nice shiny brown/black carapace we've been accustomed to in other shots..

They should render HL2 with real-time ray-tracing, like this one guy did it with quake... Maybe the shadows where behind the creature then and not on the floor under it!? ;-)