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Freakin Sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off I would like to say...all of you who say it takes a year to download the game...grow up and get into the game....no gamers use dial up anymore I for one am running on Comcast and the game has never run more smoothly...now my computer is low
under todays standards....Dell Dimension 2300 Windows XP Intel Celeron 1.7 ghz 80 gb hard drive and 512 MB ran with a Geforce
FX5500 256 mb card....however I sped right thru everything and
got to the game. I was playing in a matter of 2 hours...(thats
with me picking up a headset wit microphone)Everyone complaining bec they hav dialup. Get a clue. All gamers should
seriously consider cable,DSL, or T1

What a frickin pain in the neck...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: February 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First, Steam. Steam is probably the most annoying piece of software available on the market today, second only to Windows itself. You need to be online to play the single player game.

Next, I ordered Half-Life 2 from Amazon. Disk three had a minute scratch on it that prevented the game from being installed.

After my physical pain subsided, I decided, "take it to EB and trade it in". No dice--This game is not allowed to be traded in because of the coding on it. This game cannot be installed on more than one computer, and if you reformat your hard drive, then you are out of luck and HAVE TO BUY A COMPLETELY NEW COPY OF THE PROGRAM.

Bottom line, I would probably do better playing Yahoo! solitaire, and it's FREE.

Dont understand??

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 27
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I dont see any fun in this game....I played Half life one and though "wow this is a rather boring game in which all I do is push crates" and the storyline was boring as well!!!!!! So when I tried Half Life 2 I wasnt anymore impressed....the enemies looked real but when I filled them full of lead it didnt FEEL like it...and the puzzles were irritating...they were easy to work out...but I wanted an FPS not another version of hyped up super speed tetris!!!!!!!! And Again the storyline wasnt very exciting...they tell you bugger all and then the end is treated like a twist?????
I can say Halo/Halo2 were good came because they were what they claimed....FPS's....they had good storylines/a cool universe and when I killed the 'bad guys' I enjoyed every moment of it....and that is why I dont like the Half Life franchise.....

Not just the graphics... the physics and AI

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: June 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Now, obvioiusly I havent played the game but I have had the privelage of watching the 2003 E3 video of it. It is THE most breathtaking game ever to be produced. You wonder why it took them 6 years to make it? You wont once it comes out.

Physics: You can shoot a gurder bar hanging on top of a construction room and watch it come swooping down to crush multiple enemies, but wait.... one got back up.... but then the bar comes back down from the other side and takes him out again.
AWESOME!!!

Graphics: The graphics are next to life-like, if they bring out an half-life 3 the graphics will be life like. The walls of buildings actually look like bricks. Grass actually looks like grass. And water, well the water is life like.

Enemy AI: They are as smart or smarter than you. Say they chase you into a room in a house. You run in block the door with a table. Feel safe for a while right? WRONG.. the shoot the windows and come bursting through.... AMAZING!

I cant say enough about this game. It will likely get game of the year and possibly best game ever made if it lives up to its video which it likely will.

It will be sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 34
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Anyone not wanting to get this game should probably get a CAT scan. It is is one of the most anticipated sequels in gaming history, including UT2K4 and Doom 3. IF you've followed the development process, you know what I'm talking about. The gameplay videos are incredible. You can find them at gamespot.com, and they show a level of environment interactivity that I couldn't believe. Besides being Half-Life the way the enemies react and the open-ended feel the videos show is astounded.

For a FPS it promises super-immersive gaming. When you can move furniture to block doors and knock over train cars to kill zombies it's hard to imagine how it can get better. Another new twist is what appears to be a telekenisis gun to throw object at enemies! I've seen the beta also, and the environment effects are superb, water looks great, and the design is great. This game will be worth every penny.

BUY THIS GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: July 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The engine for this game is landmark. I know a game developer who has inside information on the amount of money spent on this engine. Without really letting it out at this time, let's just say it's an enormous sum of money devoted to a game engine.

As the video taken at E3 shows, this game will truly be INCREDIBLE. The original Half-Life took the Quake 2 engine and made a much better single player game than Quake 2 was. Half Life was also the platform for the Counterstrike mod. The other day I went to a site that listed the number of players currently online playing several particular games: Quake 2: ~3000 players, Medal of Honor: ~6000, Quake 3: ~4500, and so on. Counterstrike: ~60,000 people, and it is 5 years old! With THE most advanced engine ever developed and a history of excellent story and single/multiplayer gameplay, this game will be SUPERBLY THE BEST.

I had lots of trouble even running the DEMO

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: February 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I will wait until all the bugs are ironed out on this game. I had trouble even running the demo so I gave up. It is NOT my systems fault either. I have a current system with current specs so the programers have NOT done a good job.

Quote from a professional editor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 24
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have not got the game yet. But its hard to resist the review PC Gamer has given to HL2. Heres some unedited text from http://www.half-life2.com/news.php?id=332

"Half-Life 2 is arguably the best game ever made to date. It is a groundbreaking experience in interactive entertainment," states PC Gamer's Senior Editor, Chuck Osborn, "While some games have groundbreaking visuals, or intellectually-challenging gameplay, or perhaps a cinematic story with good voice acting, not one has ever delivered the complete package. Half-Life 2 nails it, surpassing the original in every way."

Best. FPS. Evar.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Without a doubt the best FPS to date. I was so blown away when i first played it. Highly immersive story, amazing graphics, interactive enviroments, complex yet entertaining puzzles to solve.
Not sure if puzzles is the right word, but many times throughout the game you get into a sticky situation and you have to think your way out of it. And unlike most games that try to integrate puzzles into their games, the puzzles in HL2 are interesting and fun. Usually I HATE puzzles in a game, because they usually are 1. too simple. 2. to hard. 3. overdone. how many puzzles do you NEED in a game. or 4. just plain stupid. nothing irks me more than a puzzle that was thought up by a sadistic money and implemented by a high school dropout. UGH.

Ok, minor off-topic rant about puzzles... So about the game... Different types of enemies are interesting and require different stratagies, headcrabs are annoying, the badasses in dark suits are overused. Gravity gun is also a good (and well done!) addition to the game.

Fun 5/5
Graphics 5/5
Gameplay 5/5
Sound 5/5. Surround sound is excellent.

Some of the highest ratings I have ever given. The only other games I would give ratings this high would be Ninja Gaiden and Halo 2. Lots of excellent games out there but so few that deserve 5's for everything.

bad things happen if you have the wrong video card

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is the biggest frustration I've ever had in a video game:
-takes forever to set up
-can only be played if you are online
-and the worse: it crashes every 15-20 minutes with my configuration, and I'm not the only one. I tried everything, update my drivers, slowing my video card and sound card acceleration, get some patches... it takes forever and you don't play.
Otherwise, when it works, it's fun, you can interact with everything.
finally, i prefered doom 3...

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