I just finished up my review for Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Your feedback would be appreciated. What a great game... The story is incredible. I was actually torn between scoring it a bit higher or even a bit lower. Some of the gameplay seems a bit forced to me, as if John Peters was telling someone at Valve that they'd missed some action beats and they needed a robot dog wrasslin' a giant spider. An Evening with Kevin Smith. It never gets old. Episode 2 really is an amazing story though. I look at it sort of like the Empire of the Half-Life Episodes trilogy. Which just happens to be my favorite movie from a galaxy far, far away. And the graphics in Episode 2 are excellent. But really, pretty much everything looks bad now that Crysis has landed. Even the UT3 demo which was out about 3 weeks beforehand. Ridiculous. I think my reviews can be a bit wordy, bordering on pretentious. This one weighs in at a pretty healthy ~800, but I glossed over a lot of things I imagine your average videogame fan would want to know - what's the car like, what new weapons are in the game, etc. I also cut out a paragraph comparing the two Resistance fighters to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern... I am not kidding.