Is Half-life 2: Episode 1 worth it?

I saw it for $10.00 on Steam, and i'm wondering if it's worth it. I'm not sure about paying over five bucks, for 5 hours of gameplay.

I think it is if I didn't already have it I would buy it again

Play any game that you like for 5 hours, then stop playing and shut down the computer. Then ask yourself: "Were those 5 hours worth 10 dollars?"

In my opinion, no. Good game but not worth the money. I play a lot of games so 5 hours is like nothing. I'd rather play a different game then waste 10 dollars for 5 hours of gameplay and I'll probably never play that game again anyway because there's no replayability.

However, if you don't got anything better to do and you don't really need the money, then I guess you can buy it.

It's definitely worth it, especially at $10. And while it may be short, it is packed with cool stuff. You will want more when it ends, but in a good way, a those-guys-at-valve are geniuses way, not an I-just-got-gipped way. additionally the commentary mode adds hours to that 5 hours number, and is genuinely interesting - only reinforcing that valve = genius reaction.

 And if you get it later, I doubt your price per hour computations are going to alter majorly, even if all the episodes come ot in a pack. 

the quality is high and really if you compare the length with other fps games in recent times , Prey, FEAR, Quake 4 it's good value for money.nutcrackr

I got Prey for $10 Canadian, a week ago.  I beat it but i really liked it.  I have a backlog of games on 

my to beat list for the summer.  After I beat DoW: Winter Assualt I have the Half life series.  I bought 

The holiday pack when I wanted to play CSS.  I have Sin episode one and it was worth the buy.