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The Truth of the Matter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: June 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In the course of this review, I will cover gameplay aspects and critique other people's reviews of this game. First of all, if you can afford it, I would definitely recommend you purchase a high-end graphics card for this game. You will be rewarded for your investment. I originally had an X1800 XL (256 mb) and purchased an X1900 XTX (512 mb) for this game. I can turn almost every graphic setting to its highest and it still runs smoother than the X1800 XL. This game is graphically brilliant if you have a powerful computer with a top-notch graphics card. If you can't play this game with the graphic settings at their highest, you really are missing out. However, I have no doubt the gameplay aspects are still very enjoyable.

For all of you complaining about the installation time of this game, that's your fault and yours alone. If you didn't pre-load the game, as Valve intended, don't have the audacity to blame them for that. They had been preloading this game for weeks before it was actually released. It's not their fault you were too stupid to take the time to download the segments they were releasing.

I did the preloading, and I was playing the game immediately after the game was unlocked by Steam. This took less than one minue. As for you people complaining about the fact there are too many dark spots in the game...what do you expect?! The vast majority of City 17 has been destroyed. Why would you ignorantly expect there would still be electricity in all parts of the city, especially the underground when much of the power grid has been destroyed?

Steam is a great service that enables you to download patches and bug fixes that exist in EVERY GAME!!! With Steam, they are taken care of almost immediately when they are found. Also, Steam releases extra content like new maps for Counter-Strike which is very cool. So stop complaining about Steam and start thanking the fact it exists. Don't be concerned about having to register with Steam every time you play the game. First of all, you can change the settings on Steam so that you don't have to do this at all. Secondly, with the success of these games, Valve and Steam are not going anywhere so stop worrying.

Also, I find it hilarious some ignorant individual states that they would have to 'wait for activation after purchase of the RETAIL game.' LOL If you preloaded the game, you DO NOT HAVE to purchase the retail game. Clearly, this person, just like most others are completely foolish. If you purchased this game via Steam, as it was intended and did the preloading, you were playing this game immediately after it was unlocked on the release day. Also, if you did the preloading, you would have saved two dollars off the original purchase price. If you didn't preload, you really are foolish.

As an additional tangent, I noticed that this person removed the "wait for activation after purchase of the RETAIL game" remark from their original review. (They obviously did this after reading my remarks on the 'preloading' from Steam.) I find that outrageously humorous. Again, another testament to how ignorant and generally stupid most people are and how they blame services that are wonderful, when they're failing to use them properly. Don't blame the service for your own mistakes.

Personally, I hope you all give my review a negative review. B/c if you don't agree with what I'm saying, it's merely a testament to the fact you're just another fool who didn't do things properly and you're complaining about Steam when you should be thanking its existence.

An EPISODE ONE review (NOT a STEAM review!)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great deal of fun: if you enjoyed HalfLife 2, you'll absolutely enjoy this new installment. Yes, it's shorter than the titanic HalfLife and HalfLife 2, but it's also only 15 bucks. There are two episodes slated to follow this one, and Episode 1 gets the storyline off to a great start. If the sneak preview of Episode 2 (shown at the end of this game) is any indication, some really great stuff is on the way.

Highly recommended for all players of HalfLife!

Steam

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Why is everyone getting mad at steam. Valve had many pirecy problems with its products..... Steam proves that you will not install the game on evryone computer or make copies... Steam works perfectly on my pc. They bad multiplayer is Gamespy which I saw copying the websites and passwords i types in and sending them to god knows where.

Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm not going to nitpick a game that was thoroughly enjoyable. I had a lot of fun playing this, and that's all that matters to me.

Compared...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Compared to most modern fps, half-life 1 looks like ****.
I Strongly reccomend you to buy bf2 or d3:roe for instance, this is the waste of money. No exact storyline, valve is just getting more money for the half-life(r) brand.
I was unsatisfied.

I hate Steam too, but can we review the game?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Look, I hate Steam. I really do. I have sympathy for all of you and your problems. Christmas day '04 I opened Half-Life 2 only to experience a three-hour download "verification" wait on a (then) 56k modem (I've since upgraded to 5 MB Comcast - but it still took ages on a second install to download the files).

The game didn't work at all on my system back then (even though it met the requirements) and the load times were incredible. Steam running in the background slowed my system processing down and the game would freeze on load points for ten minutes.

Then I moved in '05 and when I reinstalled the game again from fresh after settling in to my new home, I realized the CD key had been lost and I couldn't remember my Steam login info. Their answer? "Buy a new copy of the game." Yeah, thanks. (Luckily, I finally managed to remember my login info.)

ANYWAY...point is, as you can see, I've had my problems with Steam and I've grown to hate it too. But if we all review Steam, then the actual game's rating will drop as well. I think that ruins the entire point of Amazon's rating system because prospective buyers such as myself (when I looked at the rating the other day) see three and a half stars and think, "Oh, the game must really suck!" But actually, the game's fine. It's awesome.

It's just Steam that sucks.

I wish Amazon would open up a new product page for Steam! I'd have a word or two to say, then.

But if you're looking for a nice add-on to HL2 - this is a really good investment, it's cheap, has awesome graphics, and good gameplay. Unfortunately it's a bit short, but what do you expect for less than twenty bucks?

Did not work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have a pretty honking PC but this "upgrade" wouldn't even run. Yech.

Love Half-Life Fan BUT a game is ok and short, huh????

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: June 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I wish more long adventure rooms and more more shooting but i dont enjoyed this one, I am first-shooter fan that other games are great but this one don't turn on me when played somehow the end, that's it? come on!!! Geez...Yes, worth for part one HF and part 2 HF2 are great game but this one dont game great, i think it is waste time to play, not really curious something new, nothing much...most is puzzle trap rooms that try escape to the outside, finally, that's all. In the end, I see Episode Two will be release in the future, ohhhh, look nice demo but worth game and short game again???? I dont know if will order Episode Two or have to buy becuz we are freak first-shooter? who know?

Wow, te gusto HL2... entonces el episodio 1 te enloquecera

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: September 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Half Life 2 Episode 1, es la continuacion de Half Life 2 y mucho mas. Me atreveria a decir que a pesar de lo corto de su duración, hay mucha mas diversion de la que hay en todo HL2.

Salvese quien pueda
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Al final de HL2 el Dr. Freeman logro detener la huida del Dr. Breen y destruyo el reactor en la cima de la citadela. Y GMan lo puso en estasis de nuevo. Ahora la mision es escapar de ciudad 17 junto con Alyx Vance antes que el reactor explote. Es aqui donde los problemas empiezan.

Me siento solo
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Bueno, esta vez el Dr. Freeman no está solo, se encuentra acompañado de Alyx quien esta vez hará un poco mas que solo abrir puertas y hacer comentarios graciosos. Ahora ambos estan juntos y deben luchar para habrirse paso atravez de una ciudad en caos.

¿Qué... Ya?
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La accion se desarrolla sin dar respiro y afortunadamente los desafios son tan variados que cuando menos lo sientas el juego terminó. El juego es relativamente corto, unas 5 o 6 horas de juego. Sin embargo la canitidad ha sido sustituida por calidad, pues al final te sentiras satisfecho y con ganas de más. A esperar el episodio 2.

Calificacion:
Graficas: 9
Sonido: 9
Control: 8
Historia: 8
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Diversion: 9

Excellent game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Half Life 2 Episode One is an excellent game, like the orginal Half Life 2.
However, the play time is quite less, maybe about eight hours.

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