Now, I've never played Half Life before but im curious , my "acquaintance" has said it took him 3 years to complete the first half!, surely this is ridiculous, I just wanted to know whether this guy is a total, erm lets say newb or whether Half Life takes away half of your life?

After about 12 hours (probably took other people a lot less) I finally got hang time, dreading going after the manual achievment I was pleasantly surprised it took me like 5 minutes :shock:, so Wooooooooooooooooo!