Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Second Episode makes up for the first teaser

User Rating: 9.5 | Half-Life 2: Episode Two PC

By djtrotte | Review Date: November 12, 2007

It's a happy boy who opens up his neatly wrapped 'Orange Box' and starts playing with the innards before even bothering to read the instructions.

I've been waiting ever so impatiently for this one. It needed to make up for the lack of content in Episode One. And it delivered. Not only that, it made me want to take my time even more, because the design of it felt more deserving of not doing a 'speedrun' and actually appreciating the surroundings a little more. I am a bit of a crowbar ho', so I still want mo, but this is definitely a nice filler until Ep 3

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