I'm about to buy half life 2 episode 2 but...

I wanted to make sure that I got the game correctly. I perfer playing the game in order. I've played half life 2 episode 1 (i think) and now I want to buy half life 2 episode 2. I'm fairly positive that I've played episode 1, but when I read wikipedia's storyline of it, it doesn't seem to match the game i've played.

The half life 2 episode 1 game ive played starts with Gorden on a train to city 17 and ends with the citidel's reactor exploding, with alyx freezing in time and the G man appearin.

Is that half life 2 episode 1? am I safe to buy half life 2 episode 2 now? or am i missing something?

I wanted to make sure that I got the game correctly. I perfer playing the game in order. I've played half life 2 episode 1 (i think) and now I want to buy half life 2 episode 2. I'm fairly positive that I've played episode 1, but when I read wikipedia's storyline of it, it doesn't seem to match the game i've played.

The half life 2 episode 1 game ive played starts with Gorden on a train to city 17 and ends with the citidel's reactor exploding, with alyx freezing in time and the G man appearin.

Is that half life 2 episode 1? am I safe to buy half life 2 episode 2 now? or am i missing something?

name294

its HL2 and not episode 1

No, you played Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2: Episode One was an expansion pack, that continued the storyline after Half-Life 2, and Episode Two is the second expansion, and continues the storyline after Episode One. Its confusing, we know, Valve knows, they're sorry. They even admitted they should have just called it Half-Life 3: Episode One.ProudLarry

It's not an expansion pack, it's episodic content. If it were an expansion pack then you would need Half-Life 2 to play it, but you don't.

[QUOTE="ProudLarry"]No, you played Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2: Episode One was an expansion pack, that continued the storyline after Half-Life 2, and Episode Two is the second expansion, and continues the storyline after Episode One. Its confusing, we know, Valve knows, they're sorry. They even admitted they should have just called it Half-Life 3: Episode One.error11

It's not an expansion pack, it's episodic content. If it were an expansion pack then you would need Half-Life 2 to play it, but you don't.

There are plenty of standalone expansions. It's pure semantics. The episodes are expansions.

that's half-life 2 not episode 1

they really did a bad job naming it "Half Life 2 - episode #", its very confusing to people who have never played HL-2, I see these questions more and more on this board and a few others.