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Holy Crap this is AWSOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i think i's pretty much agreed that HL is the best Freakin game ever made, and i've played just about all games in history.
PROS-
The story is mind boggling and even makes you think a little

The graphics are amazing, and the game runs fine on even a crappy system

The AI is pretty cool, and sometimes stuff will sneak up on u and jump out the enemies even work together to make a squad

Gameplay is great, I've played this over and over again!
Cons-steam/valve, makes u update like once every couple of months or the game won't work, and the update takes like an hour, even on a good connection.
I would recomend this game to everyone, i showd my friends and they all bought it

Needs more

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is awesome but the one thing it needs as collector's ed. is some behind the scenes stuff. Other wise it is perfect.

Excellent game with a few flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay, graphics ad story are superb. What I found disturbing are the trshy weapons. They all "feel" like toys and shoot that way. Why didn't they take weapons like in CS:S?

lots of potential but ultimately disappointing.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

oh dear, half-life 2 ... what an amazing game, right? not really, but it sure could have been. the graphics, the story, the guns and shooting action are all amazing. so what's wrong? 3 things.

1. helicopters. these things suck big time. i wish they weren't even in the game. you have to shoot them down with rockets, which seems cool except it's quite hard to hit them. i'm not making excuses for being a bad gamer. it's just that it's literally hard to know how to aim.. or even whether to aim at all, since the rocket twirls around and seeks out the chopper, but then the chopper turns around and shoots down your rocket. i have shot down helicopters, but it would be hard for me to explain to you how exactly i did it. do you aim straight on? aim off to the side? try to shoot closer, farther away, higher up? i don't know if anyone knows. that's why i quit playing this freakin' game. it was frustrating enough to get through 2 lengthy helicopter battles, but then when there was YET ANOTHER ONE, i just couldn't believe it. what a waste. not to mention, for a game that's supposed to be so creative, it's just doing the same thing over and over again with the choppers.

2. puzzles. now if you like puzzles and can figure them out, good for you, you'll like the puzzles. but if you're more of an FPS fan like me and don't like puzzles, you're not gonna like this stuff. i figured out the simple ones, but hey when i come across a wall of wood in the middle of a road with a wire overhead, i really don't know what's goin' on. i end up looking on the internet for the walkthrough for this stuff, and i don't like having to consult walkthroughs. to me it's just a waste of time trying to figure out some puzzle for a long time.

3. pacing/lack of action. IMO, half-life 2 drops the ball here. now i can understand wanting a breather after action sequences. also i know gordon freeman is trying to escape so he has to travel.. but it's just travel on a vehicle, then get into a fight over and over again. why even bother with all these travelling parts? it just doesn't seem right to me. also when you get into a gunfight against enemies, it doesn't last long and the threat doesn't seem large. there are many games where you feel more like you're taking on a group of enemies. hl2 is lacking in action and a sense of urgency and threat that gets your pulse high.

i think half-life 2 is just pretty unfulfilling and a waste of time. it's "supposed" to be a FPS, but it's really not because of the pacing, puzzles and lack of action. i'd rather play something like doom 3 or quake 4. they have stories too, but not the wastes of time.

as for the multiplayer, it's fun but the rockets are probably too overpowering.

Half-Life 2? And I thought Halo was fun...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

1998. Valve makes history with a landmark game. Half-life was the kicker for the ignition of FPSs for the PC and changed the face of the Genre for years. I tried it. I hated Half-life. You say "Wait, isn't this supposed to be about Half-Life 2?" yes, it is. And It IS about Half-Life's sequel. You see, I hated Half-life, yet I loved HL2, and beat the game in mere hours (but many sittings...) and came back for another play-through. The graphics are superb, though not on par with Doom 3, they are much better engineered and still look awesome. Havok physics make things look like they're falling, not flying down, and people who fall against walls don't fall though them. Even the dreaded Headcrabs are enjoyable to fight (Easier to kill, don't always do damage before dying) but the new kind of 'crab requires a sizable gap if you do not wish to have some form of ailen spit-poison coursing through your veins. Despite the "we dont go to ravenholm" level, HL2 has almost no flaws. One particularly annoying flaw is the obnoxiously long load time. My poor 3000+ took around three minutes to load the next 1/20th of the level when Models and Textures were set to high. (This sounds small, but if you ever play the game, you'll find that the infernal time it takes is far too unpaced with the rest of the game). This being said, you will spend a 1/10 ratio waiting to playing. The loads are well placed, however, with about 3 per level and no enemies nearby. Another is the fact that on the harder difficulties, the game finds those who started on Easy to have an INCREDIBLY hard time next time. The MMGs and Striders and such are really hard, the CPs (Civil protection, the main token masked evil enemy) are harder to kill, ammo is more sparse and your health capacity is lower. Even these parts where you have a hard time are easy, and I only got REALLY stuck once, in Nova Prospekt, where I had to seek help online to see what I should do,(hint, grenades are your worst nightmare) and I only won because someone IMd me, thus minimized the game as things got hairy, somehow stopping my death and causing Alyx to sweep in and kill everyone. I still enjoyed the parts of the game with the now-easier puzzles, but still scratched my head at some of them, ranging from as simple as not knowing where to drive, to arranging planks to walk across a beach without touching the ground. Some were incredibly easy. (climb ladder, push button, desend ladder) All the same, the whole game was fun, with plenty of shooting between all the aformentioned features to keep the dullest of FPS fans solving the puzzles just to keep playing.

A steaming pile of ..........? Well, not quite

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

HALF LIFE 2 is an awesome sequel. The game is gorgeous if you have the right hardware.

STEAM is what brings the game down. I agree with another reviewer who stated he had a good 2 hours installing and updating and decrypting game files before he was able to play. If you are on dial up, go ahead and end it all now...because you wull be ending it all after you try to downlaod all of these files over a modem - and try is the key word. In my experience, the install and required STEAM update will not work over a modem.

Go ahead and unplug everything and take your box to your office or somwhere else where you can get on the FATPIPE before you try installing STEAM.

The single player and deathmatch are superb although the SP does have some annoying repetition.

If you've played the original HL multiplayer maps, you will love going back to places in HalfLife 2 like Gasworks, Bounce, and hopefully The Subway...

I am running this game on several computers, one setup is a PIV 2.6 Northwood with a Radeon 9800 Pro and 512MB Rambus Ram This runs OK @ 1024 X 768. I also have a Dell 8400 With a PIV 3.0 and 512 DDR RAM with a Radeon X300 PCI-E this runs OK as well a little better than the previously mentioned setup.
The 3rd setup is a Inspiron XPS (3.4 PIV - 512MB PC 3200) with the newly installed Mobility 9800. This runs pretty smooth.

The best bet is a PIV 3.0 Ddesktop with at least 1GB of RAM and a sweet new GEFORCE 6600.(I'm swapping out my Radeon 9800 PRO for the 6600 for Christmas and I can't wait!)

I predict HL2 will become the new Desert Combat as far as mods and developer support are concerned. If you aren't on board, get there!

almost the best ever

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Visually, HL2 is the best looking game Ive played. I was even more pleased with the gameplay. The weapons were pretty cool also. getting to fight "humanlike" enemy along with the regular freaks was a nice change.

the countless loading screens was quite frustrating and clearly this "old method" takes away from the gameplay. enough that i had to give it 3 stars overall, but if your looking for one of the best fps on the markert. dont pass this one up.

A true masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The title says it all. There is simply no aspect about the game itself that is lacking (the Steam bit is another story, but most of the posters have already commented on that; I intend to review the game itself). I found myself totally immersed and in shock of just how much detail and thought and depth they put into this game.

What sets it apart from other, more conventional games is this:

1. Graphics that will astound literally anybody (even today, years after the game's release. I still feel that HL2 has the best graphics in the history of video games). The physics engine still leaves me incredulous; everything is amazingly life-like in its reactions. Whatever would happen in real life, will 99% of the time happen in the game.
2. An excellent, followable and understandable plotline that engages the player, yet leaves some parts unanswered so that the player is begging to know more. You WANT to progress in the game so you can learn more about the story and what is to come.
3. The requirement for the player to use his head when it comes to the puzzle-solving that is as much of an integral part of the game as the combat. This is no mindless shoot-em-up flick!
4. The gameplay itself. The game is surprisingly easy and simple to learn and play, a great choice for new and veteran players alike. Although it will challenge all players, it is not difficult to the point of being frustrating and irritating.

In short, the people at Valve have created what can truly be called a masterpiece and an instant classic, a game that (once again!) redefined first-person-shooters forever. It truly is the best game ever made, bar none (until Half-Life 3 comes out!). Buy this and Episode One, which has even better graphics!

Great Game BUT...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok. So first of all let me tell you what PC I have. I have Pentium 4 3.2 G CPU, 1 Gig of Ram, 128 ATI Pro VPU.

Game is pretty cool. You get to ride stuff, including some construction machinery. Everything is great looking, intelligent and plot makes sense (at least to the very last part.)

But............It takes soooooo long to load the game and its consecutive parts, its not even funny. And when I press Save or Load, everything is freezes with repetitive sound for like 40 seconds. And large explosions require a millisecond of additional processing. What is that all about? It takes away fun from the game Big Time.

But the game is a very nice sequel, and was worth the wait. But because of all the frustration, I cannot give it more than four stars.

Still the Best PC Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I just started recently playing HL2 again because I put together a new rig, and I have to tell you it is far from showing its age. What a phenomenal game and engine this is. This game has one of the best storylines and endings ever. The fishbowl game Bioshock has nothing on this.

The graphics are still amazing by today's standard. And when you install the FakeFactory Cinematic Mod v4, the only game that will surpass this visually is Crysis. The facial and mouth animations are still unmatched. The engine could use an update with new and more advanced shadowing, but that's it.

Also, I think steam is great. A couple of my HL2 CDs have become unreadable, but thankfully the cd-key is registered to my account so I am able to download this as many times as I want. Very convenient.

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