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Better than HL2
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I had, and have, serious gripes with HL2. But overall this game is better and more enjoyable than the source, HL2. I love the low light areas, which offer a new sense of tension after the absurdly-easy final section of HL2.
How is it that such an important game's sequel-to-the-sequel can seem more coherent, more like a real game (with a consistent and compelling storyline), than its original (the HL2 sequel to HL)? Sad to say, but this sequel makes the original seem even more lame than it did on its own.
A excellent game
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User
This's a great game, with multiple escenarios, and great levels, I like the most the grafic, but you need a video card for that, this's short but the only thing I can tell is a excellent game.
half-life 2 episode one
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User
This was an enjoyable game, it lasted about 12 hours of play. I am next going to play on the hardest setting. If you like half-life 2; I would reccmend it for your collection.
The perfect game shadowed by an useless "steam" !!!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User
Definitly HL2 is and always will the most popular FPS game in history. And now with this excellent expansion is even better. BUT !!! Steam is always try make head ache to all of us. How is posibble, I install the game and I need to update the game from to 70% to 100% to be able to play, What happen if I don't have any decent ADSL conection at home ??? I can't play. So I carry my CPU to my office to connect to a 512kb ADSL connection, and after 6 hours the was be complete able to be played. 6 HOURS, this is almost imposible, how it could be ??
Be sure that the game has anything you want in a game of this class: graphics, great history, emotion, thriller, even scare; but is not justified that STEAM make this kind of "barrier".
Thank you, and have a good play.
Pitch Black for a good deal of the game
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I must say that HL2 was superb. HL2 Episode 1 is an absurd waste of time. A huge chunk of the game takes place in pitch black and you have a flashlight that lasts a few seconds and when it works all you can see is a flicker here or there. Just when you finish one area in pitch black, you're thrust off to another area that's, you guesses it, pitch black. Area after area of that is just no fun at all.. it become extremely tedious and extremely boring. No, Quake 4 was MUCH better in that it wasn't PITCH BLACK. The other issue is that these games work well on only a few select configurations. I have plenty or ram and HD space and a 64MB graphics card but apparently that's nowhere near enough. I won't even mention the STEAM aspect of this - that's nothing but brutal torture.
All in all... HL2 is superb. The rest is not worth it.
Adds some life to the game
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User
It could have been longer but it was decent addition to the game. Not much new here though.
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