Half-Life 2

I never thought that a game too grabbing to turn out so disappointing

User Rating: 4 | Half-Life 2 PC

By Dark__Warrior | Review Date: December 17, 2009

First of all, and maybe one of the most important factors of a game (in my opinion) is the storyline. The game has a poorly developed storyline with a non-absorbing plot without even one cut scene. In my opinion, cut scenes are important in any game because it is so tiring to keep playing on and on without having a break and watching the story and understanding it rather than just keep shooting and not giving a significance for the game plot.

The main character in the game "Dr.freeman" doesn't even have a voice and does not utter a word throughout the whole game. Secondly, the game play is somehow interesting but absolutely boring, the walking and sprinting are very unrealistic and needs improvement. Moreover, the puzzles in the game makes it even more crappy than it is. The weapons are nearly all the same, nothing new or grabbing. Here is one for you, what am i supposed to do completing 4 missions riding a boat or driving a car! Isn't that ridiculous/boring?!

Thirdly, another major drawback is the music, the music was literally non-existent, all throughout the game u play without any background music, even there are some parts of the game that contain music but still those pieces of music were utterly non-appropriate and not even relative to the situation u are in.
On the other hand, there was just one good fact about the game, and it was the graphics. The graphics are acceptable for the year 2004 while the physics of the game is actually great. But still this doesn't cover up the mess.

All in all, this game ended up with a 4 out of 10 score, those points i awarded were for the good physics and somehow good graphics for its time. This game will get the crap out of u and keep u frustrated at the end.
You can complain and judge me because everybody else on this planet loves this game, but I really cannot stand this and I would never tell anybody this is worth the download.

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