Half Life was way better than this game.
User Rating: 6.9 | Half-Life 2 PC
Okay is it just me, or did Valve really screw-up here. Yep Valve screwed-up. How could anyone in their right mind give this game an 8 or higher rating, it's beyond me. Let's start with the game-play ( in a nutshell ) you go from point a to b and kill everything in between, wow very innovative. Oh and on that same subject, well close to it, how is it that a book worm ( no offense to book worms ) Gorden Freeman is able to ( with some very ordinary weapons ) kill almost all aliens on the planet that overthrew earth in 7 hours. Dosen't make a lot of sense if you ask me. Also with all the advanced technology that the aliens had why was it so hard for them to capture Freeman. I mean your character is just an ordinary guy right. Also what's with these lame looking aliens, they look like their wearing poor man storm trooper outfits, where are the aliens ( these combine soldiers make lame and uninspiring bad guys ). Now granted the graphics are really nice, and character models are superbly detailed, but I was hoping for a much deeper storyline, and was hoping Gorden would learn how to talk finally. But no, Valve decided it would be better to get rid of the cool bad-ass aliens from the original and replace them with human WIMPS ( who look so scary in those dorky outfits ). Also why the heck does each level take so long to load. I have the recommended specs but it takes between 1:30 to 2 minutes. Well all I can say is lame effort on Valves part, oh and I can't forget about Counterstrike great graphics same game-play but that's not bad because I loved the original. Hey that's what Valve shoulda done with Half Life 2. The problem is they changed too much, Valve needed to just update the graphics and have the Zen aliens take-over earth, now that woulda been a great game. 
