The best exprience but a short expirence !
User Rating: 9.5 | Half-Life 2: Episode One PC
What could you expect from VALVe a lesser expeirence nooo & a better 1one yes fir sure the only down side that this is their 1st start in the episodic HL series & this 1st 1one is kind of short ! But anyway lets talk about it lets start with th story ..... you are on the top of the citadel exactly where the Gman left you speachless with Alyx ...but gues what in the exact time fisure the vourtigans come & rescue you from both the explosion & the Gman & they manage to stop his as well for now .....then you are found by DOG & Alyx at the foundations of the citadel & from there you start your escape from city 17 because the citadel's reactor is going to blow ....in order to prelong its delay you find out that you actually have to go again in to the citadel & tweak it ....in there you will again control the overpowered gravity gun & after you had a metting with the reactor .....the main adventures objective is to get out of city 17 ! As allways the gameplay is top notch never getting repetitive .... its main part of fun comes from Alyx Vance who is just well to human to much personality in to her than it is in the entire gaming industry ... i just found this to be clearly genius because the characters around Gordon creted his personality because he hasn't spoken a word since the beggining & he evan dosen't have a body :)) !
Now the Source engine ....well i don't know what VALVe does but the engine looks greater than ever with the HDR technology & advanced shaders not ean new realease titles has better engines than this & from what shown in EP2 you can say that games like HALO3 or REssitence for example +(many others ) still dosen't present the quality that the SOURCE has & if you think about it VALVe is head with its technology ..... be sure that they are working on new engine as wee speak & i can not imagine the wowness i will have when i will se it ! Anyway the only bad thing of episode 1one is well its true short i consider my game a skillful player & i have finished the game under 5 hours ! IF you have played te entire HL series this is a must have if you haven't played evan HL2 well don't get this 1st get HL2 just to have a start of orientation as you get in the story ! 
