Best Shooter and Possibly Best Game Ever.
User Rating: 10 | Half-Life 2 PC
Half Life 2 is possibly the best game that I have ever played. It has everything going for it, excellent graphics, great story, realistic physics, and an incredibly immerisive world. Half Life 2 continues right where the original Half Life left off (however you do not know how long it has been since HL1) where you arrive at City 17 which is a facist society being controlled by the mysterious Combine soldiers. You embark on a huge journey throughout the world eventually starting a revolution and without too many spoliers, it ends on a huge cliffhanger (worse than Halo 2's in my opinion) but hopefully the upcoming expansion Half Life 2: AfterMath will explain the story a little more. The gameplay is excellent and it never gets boring, the gameplay ranges from the incredibly suspensful "We Don't Go Into Ravenholm" section my personal favorite "Highway 17" section. All of these events leads up to the amazing and unforgetable climax. Let's not forget about the physics, HL2's Source engine allows everything in the world to be damaged in some way and the most realisic physics in any game that I have ever played. One of my favorite things about the game however is that it can run well on any system (a great move by Valve making sure that people won't hate the game because it runs poorly on their system). I ran Half Life 2 on my Compaq Presario S6500NX with 512 MB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM, AMD Athlon XP 3000+ processor, and the 128MB Nvidia Geforce FX 5500. I ran the game on this system with a mix of medium and low settings and it ran perfectly with the framerate only dropping a little at the "revolution" events at the end. Half Life 2 was worth my $55 but Valve also decided to throw in Counter Strike: Source and Half Life 2: Deathmatch free of charge. HL2 DM is fun every now and again but CS:S is a whole different game that is always fun and addictive to play. Overall, I can't reccomend Half Life 2 any more, go out and buy the game now. I was completly hooked, playing the game 3-7 hours a day when I eventually beat it over the course of 5 days. 
