Half-Life 2 review

Game: Half-Life 2
Systems (Win version reviewed): Win, Xbox, X360, PS3
Release date: November 2004 (Win, Xbox), October 2007 (X360), December 2007 (PS3)
Developer: VALVe Corporation
Publisher: VALVe Corporation

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About my rating system.

Awful - Admit to liking this game and your friends and loved ones will forsake you.

Bad - Series/IP/genre diehards might get something out of it. No one else will.

Average - Neither good nor bad. Worth playing. Or not.

Good - Good ideas, good design, good execution. It's good.

Excellent - A very special layer of hell is reserved for people who don't own this game.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• gordon
• freeman
• half
• life
• half-life
• valve
• corporation
• black
• mesa
• city
• 17
• first
• person
• shooter
• gravity
• gun
• xen
• crowbar
• headcrab
• zombie

[help4343]

@calimar28

Did you even listen to the review?

[MyScorpion42]

I love how, when he's talking about the facial animation, he zooms in on Alyx's butt.

[MyScorpion42]

I can't decide if I love or hate the way he says "gunplay"

[MyScorpion42]

@calimar28 Dude, he calls it magical within the first minute. MAGICAL.

[calimar28]

This guy is an idot and troll. HL2 is rated the number 1 game ever, and this guy runs it down! LOL Half Life 1 is SHIT compared to HL2

[blackandwhitepro34]

The Reason i love half life is because I Feel like it is an adventure, Half life is an escape from reality for me. When i play, IAM Gordon.Basically it feels like iam going backpacking in an alternate reality. Its just, Our vocabulary is very limited to describe this game.

[ThorinSHR]

@FrostmourneFK I played it at launch. Trust me, all of these "revolutionary mechanics" were done before. Physics? Trespasser. Don't get me wrong, the physics were improved upon in HL2, but half of the game is still scripted non-sense. Also, go play Surface Tension in HL1, it's 10x more fast-paced than any chapter in HL2 or episodes. This game really didn't revolutionize anything. All of the "innovation" was featured in games before this.

[FrostmourneFK]

@ThorinSHR When did you play it? Because when this game came out it was revolutionary in graphics, game-play, and mechanics.

[TangerineWizard123]

half life 2 is not on a 3rd generation consol its called the orange box

[ThorinSHR]

This has to be the most over-rated game ever. I just don't see what everybody is so worked up about. I played it two times, just two see if there was anything I missed, because I simply hated it, and all of my friends loved it to death. It is two steps back from the original. Slow-paced, horrid gunplay, sub-par graphics (for it's time), and physics gimmich shoved down your throat. HOLY SHIT I CAN PICK UP BARRELS AND THROW THEM AT MY ENEMIES! The original Half-Life is excellent, what happened?