Holy bleep! It's as good as they said!
User Rating: 9.7 | Half-Life 2 PC
Never played the original; so I have to admit I didn't get what all the Half Life blather was about, from it's legions of fans. Then........there was all the HL2 hype. Yea, yea........been there, heard that! Holy bleep! It's as good as they said! LOL! I'm very pleasantly surprised the astounding grpahics, sound, gameplay, and story (as good as they get in a FPS) actually (for once) live up to the advance billing! Yes, it's that good. Iif you're a FPS fan and you only buy one game this year (are you crazy?! You passed on Far Cry AND Doom 3?!) you need to buy HL2. The motion capture, character modeling, and OMG....... the lip syncing; have to be seen to be believed. The voice acting is way better than average too. My gaming laptop is fairly fast (3.4GB Prescott, 256MB Radeon based); so HL2 runs nice and smooth at 1024 x 768 with 2X AA enabled, and most of the graphics dialed up (I keep my rig in a high state of tune also). Can't address how it'll run on other gear (so...it's a great excuse to upgrade!). I could easily carry on more about this game, but you really need to play and see it yourself! My only beef? That's easy----the neo facist ploy of Valve; making you be online through Steam to access the single player content (to ensure those nasty pirates 'n hackers 'n such are kept at bay for a few for days). This part bleeps! 
