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Amazing. Simply amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My friends on this board must be done squabbling and too busy playing this game to write, but there's not much you need to know except that Half-Life 2 is every bit as incredible as we've been promised. I have no buyer's remorse whatsoever on this one, unlike the remorse I feel over buying Doom 3.

Hint: If you are getting "CD not inserted" errors when you start the game, try turning off DLA in Windows XP. From My Computer, right-click on your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive and uncheck "DLA." Unchecking DLA will disable it for all your drives, if you have more than one. That's what did the trick for me.

What...? You're still reading this?! Go out and buy it already! You won't be disappointed.

P.S. I have a Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, Seagate 7200 RPM HD, GeForce4 Ti4200 video card, and Santa Cruz sound card, and I let the game select my sound/video quality: High quality sound and running 1024 x 768 on medium/high for most settings. Who cares about the settings because it looks GREAT, almost as good as the pictures you've seen online or in magazines.

Go play!

the game that hasn't

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 86
Date: October 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

How can anyone actually write a review for this game. No one has played it. The only thing you can comment on is what the media has said about it. Anyone can look at a screenshot and guess that the graphics will be awesome.

Sure there's a lot of hype about this game and sure it MIGHT blow everyone's socks off. But, shouldn't you at least wait for it to come out before you say how great it is. That is...if they ever release it.

steamed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 18
Date: July 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is as about as much fun as getting burned by hot steam when u reach over the stove to turn of that boilling pot of spaghetti. I purchased this game ready for some monster bashing mutant trashing crowbar skull opening fun. But, to my dismay, I couldnt get the first level to play/not at least untill I went on line and was forced to open up an account with you geust it, A company named STEAM! Valves co-game partner. So dont be fooled by this one PC gamers And note no place on the box doese it state that an online conecction is required nor do u have to be bothered by a long down load of nothing to get started.

All the clitches? All the Virus's? All the problems...Where??

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Half the reviews i read about this game are negative, now how a PC games gets it for Game Of The Year with all this negative feedback i'll never know, but really i do. This game is (was) way ahead of its time and still is here in 2005, yes we have beautifully graphically enhanced games like, Far Cry, Doom 3, Painkiller, and so on, big deal. These games while fun in there own right, get very mundane and i myself can onl stand to play them for around half-an-hour or so. I love Doom and have been a huge fan since 1991 or whenever it was first released, but it does get a little boring quickly. There is not much interaction with people, you can't pick up objects, or throw anything or even really talk to anyone for that matter. Then there is Far Cry, in which i think the only great thing about it is the Water effects, it is spectacular. However the game is extremely to hard and it gets old that everytime you get killed you must start back at the same point with the same amount of energy and ammo that you died with. Also there is no Quicksave feature. So many of this games are fun but redudant.
Half-Life 2 is very "engaging" to say the least from what i've played thus far, and it only looks more and more promising the more i play it. First off yes the graphics are superb, but it mostly the interaction in the game with dozens of people that make it amazing. You can basically interact with anything and everyone in the game. Much like a a FPS Elder Scrolls. The main problem i have is allll the complaining, i just upgraded one of my computers with this: AMD sempron 2800+(anyone who tells you its no good for gaming is on crack) its just as good as the AMD Athlon 64. 768megs of RAM, all games run flawlessly. And last but not least a nVidia 5200 FX card at 128mb(Yes this is a value card that many people put down), well guess what works just as good as a card you pay 150-200 dollars for, so don't believe what people tell you. Actually i got it for 23 bucks because STAPLES messed up on the discount, and the rebates. Lucky ME.
First off i have a 56k connection on my Desktop for now, until i move and get DSL, everyone says ohh it will suck and be unplayable(wronngg). There are very few times that any lag hits, if it does its very minimal, i'm sure that wireless and DSL are probably better but i don't think your just gonna be "blown away" by a faster connection. Also i never had one issue in updating, so it took 45 minutes to update Steam, whoopie, go eat for 45 minutes or watch TV if you have dial-up. Also there wasn't one installation problem here, ran great. The longest update was the game itself, probably one hour, again no big deal. Also when it asks(or tells you) that you need to update your drivers on your video card, don't take this at face value, i didn't update them and again it runs great. So where in the world everyone gets all this rubish from about how the game does this and does that i have no idea. Must not have a very top notch computer or they must have to much firewall and antivirus crap on it. At any rate this game is getting better everyday, i can even play it on a laptop with OpenGL extreme graphics on a lower resolution and what? You guessed it..runs fine. Later

Bug ridden engine, uncreative level design

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: June 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's been a few years since I played this "masterpiece" but I remember it well.

Half Life 2 is a sci-fi/first person shooter that follows the adventures of Gordon Freeman. And by adventures I mean, shooting stuff and being denied information about what's going on by everyone. Of course you can infer a vague aliens took over the planet plot in the first 2 minutes, and the inference is about all you'll ever know. Cliche ridden sci-fi ambience aside, the real problem with Half Life 2 isn't the monsters in game but the monsters in the programming.

You see, when it came out there was a bug that seemed to randomly hit people. The bug caused stuttering with sound and hitches in gameplay, even on high end machines. The bug STILL exists and shows up in Source licensed games. I can only be confounded at how a development studio which as much money as they have can't make a stable game. id can do it. Crytek can do it and beat the pants off everyone else's technology. What's up with Valve? Aside from the infamous stutter bug, there are the load times that don't make any sense. Load times that are as if you're defragging your entire HD each time, it takes so long. How do you play a game under such maddening intermissions taking you out of the action? This is a problem that also has NOT been fixed despite Valve's ability to update their game. Add in the sloppy jalopy that is Steam, a piece of software you are forced to run to play their games, and I am utterly fed up with Valve's software practices. They just aren't up to par.

The last point I would like to bring up is the level design of HL2 was a joke. It was linear. As in, well a straight line of gameplay. It's almost shocking, like, am I playing Star Fox? Am I playing a 2D scrolling shooter for the NES? Why on Earth would they take the ability to make open 3D designs, and make every level a linear walk to point A,B,C... ugh, some of the worst shooter levels I've seen, although the office areas of F.E.A.R. trump it I guess. The thing is, Far Cry came out before Half Life 2, and you know what? It was wonderfully open ended. Sure you had to complete the objectives, but you weren't in a little of tube of gameplay with no other choices. Valve seemed to have gone backwards gameplay-wise, like another bigshot that crashed, id with Doom 3, they could not capitalize on the things that make gameplay great and so the game was just a hollow tribute to lots of money spent on art and self worship.

That said, I think Valve is very gradually trying to overcome the criticisms levied at them. It's not happening overnight, but I wonder, maybe we'll see a Half Life 3 that makes everyone happy and not just those who like their games dead simple.

sound story line and game play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In 1998 I purchased half-life -an instant classic. The new version is a updated story and with great content. Hey Its nice to see barney again. Installed the 5 disc (4-6 min each. Having a current steam acct made the activison process go much faster. Total time was less than 1 hour from opening box to game play. Yes you can play the single mission without being connected to the internet- just follow instructions. FYI the game looks and runs great on my 3 y/o computer. Enjoy

System Specs:
Dell P4 1.9Ghz
Nvida 64MB video card
1 Gig RAM

highly overrated...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 23
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is the most overrated game i've ever seen.
With NO storyline, half-life2 is getting 3^1/2 stars. that is impossible. games like this one should get 2 or less stars. Almost no effort was put in this game. I wasted my money for this game, and i'm buying an actually GOOD game now, called doom 3.
This is only my opinion, but i recommend you to spend money for something more worthy your time than THIS.
Not satisfied at all

What a Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life II is a great game! The graphisc are outstanding and the controls are easy to learn. The game developers have done a great job mixing it up the story line and subsequent challenges for Gordon Freeman.

I'm not a hard core gamer, but I certainly find HL2 very intertaining.

Half-Life 2 OK

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is a lot a fun. Game runs pretty fast with the notable exception of Steam (EVERY TIME YOU START THE GAME !) Steam would have problems connecting and it won't even let you play (even as a single player) until IT decides to allow YOU. Rated so low because Steam gets in the way TOO much. It is definitely a very obtrusive piece of software that really detracts from the quality and entertainment value that the game can possibly provide.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Once you have downloaded Steam, you can be playing this game in ten minutes, even with the registration. There are no router configurations unless you are running a server. Steam has it's problems, but there is no other host on the web that is better. I have been playing this game since Jan 07, I run a dedicated server on the web and have 41 games/mods to go with it not counting the free maps (single player and Death Match). This is the most versatile game system in the world. The modifications are endless. They even have a modification system to build your own maps (free). Do not listen to the whining of these reviews. If you can operate your computer and follow directions, you will be playing the No. 1 game in the world. The support is extensive and there is a live chat and e-mail services with it. If you are a novice to gaming, there are thousands of forums with people that are willing to teach you anything you want to know. Do not save the two dollars on a used disc, get a new one for $18 from Amazon or download from Steam and the registration and loading are automatic ($20). Cheaper is not always better. You can download Steam for free (steampowered.com)

I repeat.....if you listen to these people crying about Steam, you will miss out. Trust me.

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