Half -Life 2: Episode 1 is a great expansion to the Half-Life series, its only problem is that its to short.
User Rating: 8.8 | Half-Life 2: Episode One PC
Half-Life 2 episode 1 takes place right after the regular Half-Life 2, and when i say right after I mean directly after the big explosion and everything. Apparently the Gordons save you Gordon Freeman and Alyx from ur near death experiences. So Gordon finds him self in a pile of debree only to be saved by Alyx and Dogg. It turns out you have to go back into the Citadel because the core is about to explode and Alyx took such a long time finding you and other straglers that you cant really get out of the range of the explosion in time. So your only alternative is to repair the core itself , you do so and find your self on the road to the train station to escape City 17 because the reapirs you made on the core won't last forever plus the Combine are after for stealing their plans and then you know how the zombies and the other Aliens are after you as well. There are a few puzzle like situations like putting a car on a bug hole using the gravity gun or getting balls of energy to certain places to power a walk way or any other device.
The Gameplay is one of the best parts of this game, since valve uses the physics engine in such a great way you can pick up a bed with the gravity gun and throwing it at a Zombie or a Combine and they fly across the room, or in one sequence an enemie shoots at the ground u stand it breaks and you fall back. Oh how much I love rag doll physics. But the Physics are as great as Half-Life 2.
The Graphics in this game is phenominal just like the first one,but you may need a powerful computer in order to really experience this game but most computers can handle it.
The overall gameplay in this game is Fantastic its actually better than Half Life 2 ,but the game is just to short. You will be over with this game in just 3 hours 5 hours tops. But I believe you should still get its worth it, also its not even $20 any more its $15 to $8.
Half -Life 2 :Episode 1: Recomended 
