Half-Life 1 was considered a revolution and set standards for all first person shooters made after it. The game became a classic with it's mixture of puzzle solving and it's shooter gameplay. The community grew larger by day and it's deathmatch multiplayer was a blast. Soon enough, the flexible engine became recognized and soon enough modders everywhere created some of the best multiplayer mods we have ever played. Valve even was impressed and bought the mods off the community and expanded upon them. The Value of the game started to triple. Half-Life 2 became one of the most hyped game to be created. It's out now, and it lived up to the hype. You begin the game on a train after marveling at the G-Man's great quoteable phrase and his facial animations. You soon walk off the train and see what it's like to be an immigrant. There are cyborg-like men everywhere. All the same height, voice, and look. I knocked objects over, and I found out I could pick up any light-weight object I please. I threw trash at one of the cyborgs and soon enough he was chasing after me with his tazer. I then knew how much fun I was going to have over then next 18 or so hours. The game starts off slow and hudless. You try to find out what to do and you follow around. You then approach a station where they photograph you, check your identity, ect. The people in front of you in the line inch on and you enter into the caged area. Your access gets denied and several snapshots are taken. A cyborg directs you through a security door and you follow one. He leads you to an interrogation room. He asks the other cyborg in the room for some privacy. *Minor Spoiler > * The cyborg takes off its helmet and it turns out its Barney from the last game! He is probably the most comedic character in the game, and his facial expressions are great. * < Minor Spoiler *. The gameplay is just simply incredible and the experience gets better as the game goes on. The gravity gun is the most genius idea yet for a weapon. It changes the strategy you could use in every situation in the game dramaticaly. The graphics are staggeringly awesome. Besides a few rare low resolution textures, everything else is perfect. The game overall looks better than Doom 3 when you include the physics and ragdoll. The features used on any kind of metal or any surface period is amazing. I can't believe how good it looks with my mid end system. I ran the game on the Highest settings with all the extra features on 1024x768. I have a Radeon 9600, 512 DDR Ram, and a 2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon. It ran better than expected. The sound is great too. I couldn't wish for anything to be changed, and the voice acting is pretty good. It is all very enjoyable. The multiplayer is AWESOME. I couldn't believe it when Counter Strike : Source was announced to be the multiplayer portion for Half Life 2. Counter Strike was the only game I played for the last 4 years. I love Counter Strike. I was in heaven. Except for the fact that HL2 ran overall better than CS Source did on my computer, it was just fine. The value gets a 10 because the upcoming mods for the game are going to be great. Also, the silver package I purchased over steam comes with Half Life + All of its expansions and mods. It's great and soon they will release Day Of Defeat : Source which is a World War 2 team + Class based game. I can't wait. Conclusion, is that this game is too good to be true. If you have a computer, buy this game, as long as you have atleast the very low requirements, your good to go!
1998, half life comes out, rocks the planet. Six years later, half life 2 comes out, rocks the galaxy. Gordon is back and so is perfection. For six years the world has been waiting, and now it is here. The game play ... Read Full Review
First person shooters changed forever in 1998 when an unknown gaming developer known as Valve released a game known as Half-Life. It revolutionized the genre with cinematic gameplay, intense combat, and a story filled wi... Read Full Review
