Awesome game!
User Rating: 8.1 | Half-Life 2 PC
This game is a lot of fun to play and is quite similar to watching a movie at times. Although you never see your character (freeman) or hear him talk, the other parts of the game like the graphical quality and sound effects, more than make up for that. It is very immersive, even if the plotline can sometimes be confusing. The original Half-Life had a bland, and rather boring storyline to it, so that really doesn't add much to it's more recent counterpart. The plot holes caused by this can make for some initial confusion, but the game fills the holes later in the game by referring to past events from the first half life. The multi-player portion of this game is where it really shines. you can go head-to-head against other players in HL2 Deathmatch, or you can download Garry's mod off of steam. Gmod is basically a sandbox mod for HL2 that can consume hours apon hours of time, it's a lot of fun. 
