Half-Life 2 is still the best looking(and best game)ever(56k(c'mon its 2008!))

honestly half life 2 is just meh now. i have the orange box pc version. im still playing episode 1. havent gotten into episode 2 yet. team fortress is just ok, but omg i did love portal to death... i want more portal sequels if possible! i know 2 is coming dont remember where i read the comfirmationRage010101

Episode 2 is better than all of HL2 and Episode 1. Play it, it has some truly epic battles and debut's Valve's new large-scale physics technology.

i have to admit i have NEVER seen the appeal in half life 2. it just seems very overrated and incredibly unremarkable. and no it doesn't look very great at all.crunchUK

Best looking game? No.

Best game ever? No.

Half Life 2, however, has aged well after four years. When I got the Orange Box for PC I played through it again and was having more fun than most of the shooters that came out last year.

When I got the Orange Box for PC I played through it again and was having more fun than most of the shooters that came out last year.

mo0ksi

Ya, same.

First time playing through halflife 2 I was like "wtf is this? This isn't halflife!" after reading though raising the bar it seems to tie in better.

It was a great game, but not the best fps of all time.dru26

Yea, because Halflife is.

[QUOTE="crunchUK"]i have to admit i have NEVER seen the appeal in half life 2. it just seems very overrated and incredibly unremarkable. and no it doesn't look very great at all.skrat_01

I think so too, its just too bad that just can't seem to enjoy it.

With texture packs it holds up to todays standars, but not 100%.

are you serious HL2 might be the cleanest looking game that has certainly stood the test of time, but in no way is it the best looking game. i take it you have never played Crysis, Bioshock, Oblivion, Halo 3, Gears, Uncharted, UT3?Nameless-Hero

WTF, Halo 3 looks aweful!!!

I agree that HL2 is one of the best games ever made (After MGS4) but i would not say its the best looking

Indeed one of the best games but not the best looking ( episode 2 though looks pretty impressive today and you can play it on a 4-5 year old pc ). Plus HL2 is has the best MODS ( get a life and zombie panic my fav )

[QUOTE="swamprat_basic"]The game certainly had atmosphere, but otherwise, it just felt like a giant tech demo. The graphics were never that great.Sgt_Crow

Tech demo? Graphics were never that great?
Lmao, you haven't played this game, no matter what you say.

Half-Life 2 never felt like a cohesive gameplay experience to me. Instead of offering a great action experience from end to end, it felt like every new level was just trying to show off something new about the Source engine. It was like random collection of gameplay segments, tied together by a flimsy story. And as much as some people would like to believe, the story is flimsy, because it takes place almost entirely in backstory, or away from what the character is doing in the actual gameplay of the game.

Half-Life 2's graphics were always more of an artistic achievement than a technical one. They weren't even the best graphics of 2004. I mean it was released several months after Doom 3, which had technically superior graphics to Half-Life 2.

[QUOTE="Nameless-Hero"]are you serious HL2 might be the cleanest looking game that has certainly stood the test of time, but in no way is it the best looking game. i take it you have never played Crysis, Bioshock, Oblivion, Halo 3, Gears, Uncharted, UT3?Wave360

WTF, Halo 3 looks aweful!!!

I agree that HL2 is one of the best games ever made (After MGS4) but i would not say its the best looking

Halo 3 is a hit and miss when it comes to graphics, whilst the character models look like bullplop, the enviroments look pretty, the bloom and water models look great and bump mapping give the game a very nice edge here and there, at least in my opinion

[QUOTE="Nameless-Hero"]are you serious HL2 might be the cleanest looking game that has certainly stood the test of time, but in no way is it the best looking game. i take it you have never played Crysis, Bioshock, Oblivion, Halo 3, Gears, Uncharted, UT3?Wave360

WTF, Halo 3 looks aweful!!!

I agree that HL2 is one of the best games ever made (After MGS4) but i would not say its the best looking

Best game? Yes

Best looking? No, but it still looks pretty good.

jbz7890

That statement is win!

Its obviously not the best looking, but considering it came out four years ago, its pretty damn impressive.

While I don't think HL2 is the best looking game, it still looks damn good, especially considering it was made years ago.Etheral_Filcher

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!1!

It still looks amazingly good (especially the faces),but it's not the BEST by todays standards. The Orange Box HL2 looks even better than the original. I noticed better shadows,HDR,and motion blur.

For the 19,999,902 people who disagree with me, you have to admit when Half-Life 2 came out the graphics were way ahed of their time.Mr_lulz

Ever play Crysis on a nice system? While Half Life 2 still does look good today, its definatly not anywhere near Crysis level as far as graphics go.kozzy1234

half life runs and looks amazing on almost any PC ;) not to mention it holds a better story than Crysis

The thing that impressed me is not that it had nice graphics, but how they were able to make it look good with low hardware requirements. Anybody can make a nice looking game, but it takes talent to make a nice looking game that runs on low end computers.DaBrainz

damn you are good 5 star *****

i totally agree with you

Never played it.rockguy92

Then get off SW and get the Orange Box now