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You can't just install and play this game!!!! You must be online.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Half life 1 was a good game and very challeging at times. This game is good too and you have to find the right way to get to the next level. Bad news now. The graphics require a very high graphics card and memory. Now the worst is that, I just wanted to play a single game and after I installed the game I still had to down load more crap and the whole game again and register to play a game I paid for. Now I am down loading Counter Strike in which I already installed. It takes me over an hour just to start to play a game here.
I am now going to look for Notices that say that I must register and down load the games that I have the disc for. Steam will not have me as a customer if they keep this up.
I would not buy another game like this one.

!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So let me get this straight, you nerds give this game a bad review because you had a bad experience with tech support or Valve's Steam?

Are you retarded? Don't give this game 1 or 2 stars just because you had bad experiences with the company. (Wow, I hate stupid people.)

The game itself is probably one of the most amazing games out there. The Half-Life series redefines the first-person shooter genre.

Awesome game. Buy it. I'm a cheap ba$%ard when it comes to buying games, because I'm always afraid of regretting the purchase. But this is one purchase I DO NOT regret making!

VALVE = CROOKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Valve has the perfect con going. They charge you forty bucks to buy a game that you can't play UNLESS you use steam to verify that you actually bought it but since STEAM may make your computer crash or freeze your system so you can't actually play the game and since you opened the box you can't return it to the the store and get your money back. INTELLECTUAL COPYRIGHT FASCISM has led to this state of affairs where crooks like VALVE can sell you products that don't work and YOU don't have the right to get your money back. Boycott VALVE and don't ever download games (from any company) so that we don't get to a future where STEAM is the only way to play games at all. That is the future these INTELLECTUAL COPYRIGHT HOLDER FASCISTS are drooling over. Don't give it to them.

Don't Buy This Used!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you buy this game used, it will not play! The game must log onto the game developer's network and verify that your key is unused. If your key has already been used, they will not give you another one! (They will, however, give you the run around. They will also pit you against their crappy web "help" system.)

This is probably illegal, but for now, it is just a waste of the $20 to buy the CD.

Best game, but worst possible distribution

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Here's the truth behind HL2 and Steam: Half Life 2 is, in mine and many others' opinions, the best game ever made for PC. Especially because the level design is simply beautiful.

However, Steam is one of the most terrible inventions ever introduced to the gaming world. If you don't have internet access, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME because you will not be able to play. Steam is a program which has control over Half Life/Counterstrike/all other games in the series. Once you create an account and associate your cd key with the account, the cd key will never work for any other account. However, you can download and play games you have in your account on other computers as long as you log in with your account. Unfortunately, I believe only one computer can be logged into your account at a time. But there's a LOT more to it. I have no idea how Steam works. I don't know if anyone does. It's worth dealing with though, and from what I can tell it seems pretty fair.

Overall, once you get past the hassle of Steam, you're in for one of the best gaming experiences of your lifetime, so I'll go ahead and give it 5 stars.

Agreed- Steam is Satan

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Just wanted to add my vote to the general consensus- Steam is quite possibly the most lamebrained baffling ordeal of a nightmare to be foisted upon humankind. There's no mention of this moronic lunacy on the outside of the package. I OWN the game, I INSTALL the game. Why then can I not PLAY the game??? I've never screamed so many crude words at my computer screen before, which is quite a statement (and on Christmas Day, no less 8-) It's even worse for me being on dialup. It took the better part of a day just to install and "update," whatever that means. Afterward, loading, even a QuickLoad, takes insane amounts of time.

The game itself, however, is everything it claims to be. Too bad the delivery is so horrible...

Do not Purchase!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 22
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Single player game -yes! Why then do you have to install and run, and connect to the internet, the steam software that is required to even load the game. The game would be incredible if it weren't for the steam software integraded into the "single player" play. I will never buy from valve again, absolutly horrible!!!!!!

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you are a Half-Life fan you should definitely buy this game. It's better than ever: the graphics, sound, new enemies, and...
One of the things that I love about this game is that your enemies, the NPCs, are pretty smart. They attack you in groups and they pretty much run after you. There is, however, less horror, and one thing that many people dislike about this game is that you MUST have INTERNET CONNECTION. There is a program called "Steam" and you must download it in order to play HL2. So if you don't have internet connection you can't play the game! If you have no problem with internet then it's a must buy! It's kind of odd that the you finish the game and nothing is clear to you, I mean you have a lot of unanswered questions, but don't worry cause the expansion pack, Half-Life 2: The Aftermath, is coming April 24, 2006 and from what I hearted will answer a lot of your questions.

half-life, why it is great and why u would not like it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Half-life! What a game, it's amazing. I gave it four stars because it is a good and counter-strike: source is brilliant. People might not like it because the installation is hell. You have to install the last part of the game online and if you do not have a connection you will have a big problem. Also because each time you play single player you have to connect to steam. Lots of people find steam very irritating. But otherwise the game is amazing and the online play is too.

Will only get you "Steamed"!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought Half Life 2 after it had been recomended by countless other gamers. What I found was not a game but an exercise in frustration.

First thing you notice when you open the box is that there's no manual or documentation of any kind. NONE! But that is not the worst of it. In order to play Half Life 2 you must first intsall Valve's own online program called Steam. The only indication that I got that I had to install Steam and agree to their user agreement was on the specs sticker at the bottom of the box. Nowhere else on the box does it say that you have to install Steam on the package. And even that was a little ambiguous to say the least. Every time you want to play HL2 you have to sign into and connect to Valve's online network, even if you want to play the single player game. What's worse is that Steam drops a running process on to your MSCONFIG Startup list and there is no way to turn it off. Allegedly there's an offline mode but even after selecting it in the options menu it still I still couldn't turn off the Steam process. In essecnce even though you pay for the game you don't actually own it. If you try to uninstall Steam the game will not boot up. After finding this out I pretty much gave up on the game completely, since it was opened I couldn't return it and I had to eat the cost of the game.

So in a nutshell Half Life 2 was pretty much ruined by the installation of Valve's little monster called Steam. If you really want to play this game get it for a console that way you cut Steam completely out of the picture. But after this experience I don't think I can in good conscience recomend any Valve products in the future.

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