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Best.... Game.... Ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best game I have every played. The story is engaging, the combat is intense, and the graphics are buetiful. Only few cons about this game though, so I'll start with those. First off, there's hardly any varition in enemies. There were tons in half-life 1, but there's only 3 type of combine, zombies, super zombies, infected zombies, 3 kind of head crab, antlions and huge antlions, a helicopter, a weird alien ship, a tripod thingy, and that's about it. Oh yes, and those things that hang from the ceiling. That's nothing to what half-life 1 had. The only other thing was that bodies didn't blow up in half-life 1, only zombies can get chopped in half. Other than that, the game is great.

Pros: Weapons: There's all sorts of weapons, a crobar, gravity gun, pistol, .357 magnum(my favorite), shotgun, grenades, SMG, Pulse Rifle, RPG, this ball thingy, and one last weapon you can see for yourself :]. The gravity gun and the physics is what makes the game shine: you solve simple problems with gravity, but in fun ways. There's also traps you can use, and objects can throw with the gravity gun that are so fun to decapitate with. The graphics aren't the most hightech, but they produce the most beutiful, realistic scenery I have seen in a game. The character face animations are the most realistic I've seen also, their face muscles act just like ours. The music when it's on(there's not much music actaully) is very good, like a dark techno song. And they're played at the perfect parts, like when your being chased by a helicopter. Which reminds me, the two vechicles you can drive. The swamp boat--- is the best vechicle I have ever played with. The levels your on with it you get going really fast go off these high jumps crashing into combine and docks, it's amazing. The dune-buggy's really fun too, you get to go wicked face and splatter antlions. The game can be dark too. Ravenholm creeped me out sometimes, not as much as doom 3, but it could get scary. Super zombies howling in the night and you hear them coming closer and closer and you can't see them, while your low on health and ammo. The combat in this game makes you think of stratigec ways to win using physics, and if you don't to do that, go up and go all out. You also actaully care about your teamates and characters in this game, because they act and look so real. Basic multiplayer sucks, but if you get Garry's Mod it's so much fun, with some wacky games in it.

Conclusion: If only one game could exist, I would pick Half-life 2 without a second thought. This game inspired me in life.

P.S. There's a lot of bad reviews of how people could get the game to work, but they never even played the game. I had no trouble installing and playing this game.

Steam? What a joke

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Though i am sure this is a good game i may never know thanks to this aweful little devil called STEAM! this program is clearly a violation of privacy as it hijacks your Pc in the attemps to keep the game from being pirated. In doing so it alienates all of the good people out there just wanting to play the game of the year. It is such a buggy program that all of a sudden i cannot even put in a half life Cd without my Pc freezing up requiring a restart. I will never purchase any product containing STEAM and anyone who does is asking for trouble. I warned ya!! thank me later!!! Thanks STEAM/VALVE,,i will spend my money on products not associated with you.

DO NOT BUY COLLECTOR'S BOX SET

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is not a GAME review. I want to specifically comment on this EDITION of the game, which is a horrible let down. "I bought the collector's edition of the game and all I got was a lousy t-shirt" comes to mind... In fact, if that's what was on the t-shirt, it'd be an improvement. There is nothing worth the extra cash in this huge box. Compared to the amazing contents of the World of Warcraft collector's edition, which includes soundtrack, DVD, stunning full-size hardbound art book, etc., this is simply appalling. Do yourself a favor and buy the regular edition of the game (but if you buy WoW, get the collector's edition)!

"Who needs a story with all these graphics?"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 21
Date: November 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is ok...Buy it for counterstrike if anything. The single player is mindless.. None of the heart and soul of the original. Not even the most basic background is given about what the heck is going on. You basically wake up 7 years later when someone--aliens, your own people...you can't tell and are never told--is abusing you. I would think that if the earth was as messed up as the HL2 world is or if aliens took over the world, someone would sit down and say, "Hey, Gordon! Where ya been all these years? Guess what? Aliens took over!" Nope. You speak with literally dozens of characters in the game an nobody bothers to tell you what the heck is going on. Meh, what a disappointment.

A game of Good and Bad but certainly no Ugly!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Over 500 reviews already so what can I add :o). Well looking at it reviewers fall into 2 camps - they either love it or hate it and I can understand why!

The good -

1) Awesome graphics. HL1 was a big step forward in graphics and HL2 managed to do the same again. The people and places are photorealistic and you could almost get the hots for your femail co-lead.

2) Great puzzles, the thing that elevates HL above the mindless Quake 4 is the puzzles. I especially loved the use of weight.

3) Fantastic game play. You have to keep your cool or face the consequences. A huge variety of bad guys from the mindless Zombies to the covert snipers. You are joined by a team of willing helpers towards the end, which is great.

The bad -

1) Short (can be done in just over 2 hours - I've seen the video!!) and I imagine less than 30 hours even for the slowest player. HL1 was perhaps overly long at over 60 hours, but much better value for money.

2) loading, loading, loading - over 2 hours to update the game before I could play it - why bother sending out the DVD at all - why noy just download it! Tediuous or what.

3) loading, loading, loading - over 5 minutes per level on my (not slow) machine, sometimes for only 10 minutes of game play. Comapare this with GTA San Andreas - did you ever see it load? This is NOT ACCEPTABLE!!

So all the reviewers are right - its a bitter-sweet experience, and from my point of view a missed opportunity. If you played HL1 then its a must have but I would certainly make sure I read a respected review of HL3 (presuming there will be one) before buying it.

valve/sierra thieves

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: September 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just spent over an hour installing this game on my dial up modem which uses the most insane installation process I have ever seen. There is no booklet included in the box. There is only one cheap card which tells you that you can play offline if you check the "remember my password" box, except there is no "remember my password" box to check anywhere during the installation process. So when I tried to play the game I was told that I would have to wait 136 minutes, and I presume that was online. These people are so paranoid that somebody might rip them off that they have devised an installation scheme which is unbelieveable. But if they want to rip me off, well that's another matter altogether. I regard Valve and Sierra as thieves and criminals. I uninstalled their garbage from my PC and will have it in the garbage can tomorrow. I will never buy anything else from these crooks.

Without question, a killer evolution in game technology.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 44
Date: July 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In the beginning, half-life was regonized specifically for it's remarkable hollywood textured storyline and astonishing tension of immerse game-play, while combining a cutting-edge 3-D engine and a simple interface with a major mod community and a white knuckle efficient multiplayer mode. Precisely. Nobody anticipated a sequel, although there was indeed a rumor of one. The second after half-life shipped out the door in October 1998, Valve went straight to work on half-life 2. WOW. Now, during Spring 2003, Valve finally reveals what they've been isolated doing in their little offices with their computers and their nerdy but creative little minds. And the other decent thing is: I have a official release date: September 30th, 2003. Before DOOM III and long before DUKE NUKEM: FOREVER and other fan hyped up games will debut. Read on to find out what hl2 will offer and why it'll win game of the year of 2003 and recover what the original one offered, and more and then some.

Heh. I've seen many screenies, some video clips, and have read articles of first glimpses of hl2, and am I impressed? Yes, 100%. Am I satisified? Yes, 100%. Valve's close tight space coupleed developers and programmers and designers has spread out wored of hl2. Truly, hl2 will be a revolution, and looks amazing. I've never seen anything as, well, realistic as half-life 2. It's core logic stunning visuals, environment realism, rich sound effects, CD-quality professionally and nicely tuned music, A.I system, physics engine, and and more has simulatneously awed me when at the same time prooves to be the best show of E3 2003 and has prooved to leave the crowd speecheless, and staggered.

The game is powered by the source engine, which has certainly eaten major chuncks of developement cycle time. Alas, it features Advanced camera and monitor control, the next generation of bump-mapping, specularity, texture variety, reflective and refractive surfaces,(including water), detail props, bump-mapped displacement mapps, volumetric effects, an incredibly high level of detail, static props, particle effects, fresnel reflections, and more. The 3DSky, Volumetric effects, dynamic refrction, diffused shader models, raiodisty based specular bump mapping, texture resolution, texture variety, static props, dynamic props, dynamic shadows, specularity, water, cameras and monitors, and displacement maps powered by the latest Direct-X 9 video card and Pentium 4 with HT technology truly makes the game look stunning, and the sound engine is EAX 3 real-life quality. Whoa. But not only that, the facial animations and character animations is just totally mind boddling, and the engine's graphics, physics, and animation, and sound engine just isn't holded up for show, it's directly connected with game-play. THe story-line hasn't been revealed much by valve, so. The game is scalable from a dx-6 mid-range system tnt based rig, from the state of the art P4 3GHZ Direct-X 9 video card from ATI and NVIDIA based rig, which is perfectly fine with me. Thus, the game will look vastly different depending on what video card you run it on. Heh heh heh. There is a lot more to half-life 2, but i believe that is what is left up to you to be discovered. Take my advice: Half-life 2 is your next game, when it debuts. The game is more than just a worthy sequel to the original game. And more. Absolutely splendid. *

be warned after the game the only thing to do may get you banned

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

a realy nice game very fun and i reccomend this to anyone looking for a good first person shooter

but theres a reason i gave this reveiw 3 stars
first you have to run a program (steam) to run this and it has to be running whenever you play a valve game
second they have messed up steam several ways and have completely destroyed the modding tools several times
third they have made a new program called VAC (valve anti cheat) that they claim never messes up and bans you only when you cheat however this is untrue some people have reported that they have ben banned without useing cheats (includeing my friend)
meaning that while they can play games single player almost all servers for multi player are now banned to these people
also they will not lift a ban for any reason

other than these problems its a fun game with great graphics fast action a great story and some great puzzles
if you dont mind the lack of replay value this should be on any PC gamers wish list

Activation takes SO DAMN LONG!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I waited and waited and waited and waited for the game to be on the store shelves. Finally no more delays and I got my over fifty dollar version. Okay. It's gonna be a great game . That's what I have read it was and after so many delays it had to be considering its predecessors. Five disks to install. kind of like shades of XIII.Don't get a nice thick jewel case however. Got it all installed and then I had to activate it. I can see their reason why. No problem I thought to myself. I said that and after an hour activating and decrypting files I'm still not ready to play the game.Think I'll just take it out and put a nice easy to install ,no fuss,no mess game in and put my long waited for and beautiful copy of HL2 in a closet where I can't see how much money I wasted.

Kudo's for such a wonderfully evil copy protection sceme

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: September 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Though I never originally purchased a Half life game, now I definitely won't. You people on here are pathetic! Only fanboys of Valve would tollerate whatever the company does. "Praise the Company!" Your blood is boiling as you read this? GOOOD! I hope so. I like people mad at me. Because instead of knocking this review you should be knocking the aa h at Valve and Steam. If your not, then I hope you rupture a splean and get a stroke from this review. You are a waist of human tissue and material that could be used to make other babies. When the people at CGW who are rude in general start pansy-ing up to the Valve people like Newel then something is indeed wrong. Jeff Green can insult his costumers but we know he wouldn't dare knock the all-mighty-valve. What a woosie! Let me explain something to you PC layman types. WIndows XP Has an activation process... OKay I don't like it but you only do it once! Half Life, Half Life II and all other accompying games require you to be online not only during activation but when PLAYING the game(single included). YOu have to continually PROVE you own the game. How Hitler is that? Neverwinter Nights is trying this with thier fan based mods but they have also lost a customer as I only play the Trilogy and don't buy into mods that require connection all the time when it is unnessasary. ALSO. Weather you like it or not, your credit card is charged without prior knowledge and once you activate Steam, they can charge you(legally) for anything at anytime. So you had best know what your getting into before purchasing the game whether boxed or downloaded it's the same. You should be spanked for saying Kudo's to such a greed bunch of paranoid overly protective jerks like valve and thier partners. Thats the news and I am outta here!

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