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Game of the year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game blows Doom 3 out of the water. The sound and the graphics kick butt. If you have 5.1 sound, the game really assaults your senses with it. Graphics are awesome, I ran 1024 x 768 with with details in high with a Radeon 9600 pro. The game is really non stop action and I never got stuck anywhere, only in the places where I kinda got lost on my own. This game seems to leave the door wide open for a follow up game to explain the huge holes in the story.

A lot of people seem to have the huge beef with Steam to activate the copy, which I can understand cause sometimes it can take forever, but mine took 2 tries cause it got stuck the first time, but once it ran ok in 20 minutes I was done.

I am guessing that anyone who can afford this game means that has a computer and internet access, a lot complaints just for security by people that have way too much time on their hands and would like to spend it some other way than activating a game. I know I am one of them, but it was worth it!!!.

Wow mon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: August 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks bottom line.See first we have great details and texture.and new real world built just for a extreme gamer.Great human emotions like for example i pushed a computer over in the lab the scientest got pissed.Last But not least the enemys,thier very detailed and respond too things like if push a can over the'll walk towerd the can,the enemys rock just as much as the game does,i think everyone should get it.

I PLAYED THE ORIGINAL

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: July 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i played the original and i think its still the best game to date endless mods and other things make it greater my fav mod is tour of duty and i heard that they will cross over the coding so i can play it on hl2. hl2 will kick!!!

Innovations In Gamming HL2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 35
Date: May 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

From viewing all the E3 trailers and several fan made trailers I must say that Half Life 2 will be a great game. Why it will be a great game is on the account of the it creating a new standard of detail and dynamic story line for future games to live up to. The images that are present in the trailers is simply staggering, where light reflects off the water and also shows bullets traces over the water. When you see a image of a giant bug with a reflective shell and light bouncing off of it, and as you walk around the bug the light and shadows change. That is just the technical level of the game, while the game play simply looks stellar.
So many games now a days have been low to deliver a truly submersible environment. Where they claim items are usable but yet are not. Case in point various first person shooters. They claim you may move items and those items will take damage when hit. I have yet to see this take great affect to date and have been disappointed by the outcome of things. Yet as I look at the HL2 trailers it becomes clear that items and objects will take a great roll in being manipulated.
I will say that all people need to try this game(s) demo (if/when) it comes out.

Counter-Strike: Source is Half-Life 2 engine

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: August 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, I have been playing Counter-Strike:Source since it came out last week, and it is great. It is a Half-Life 2 mod and runs off the HL2.exe, thus it is the same game. It is just amazing. Anything that was lacking in Half-Life and its mods as far as physics, weapons, and graphical details has been more than corrected, but perfected.

Doom 3 can't hold a torch to Half-Life 2, it is just there for people who already finished FarCry that want something pretty to look at until the real thing, Half-Life 2, is released

Gimmick, Stupid Ai, Over Hyped, Check Check & Check

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: September 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off I would like to dispel a few things right up front. This game is not the best, revolutionary, nor as great as perfect as anyone says. It has glaring problems, but it's a sequel to a game everyone loves. So I'll go through some of the issues I have with it and let you decide for yourself.

The first thing is the whole `gimmick' side of the physics engine. Yes it is as great as they say, hell its better. But the way they use it is horrible. With a game as linear (we will get to this later) as this you really don't need a physics engine so grand. You will constantly find yourself in a place where you have to move one object from point a to point b to allow yourself to move on. This is not a great or innovative thing, specially when they could of allowed you to do so much more with it. I found myself tiring of it fast, especially after the third or forth set of `lift this move it so you can move on or get the next health pack'. It is first a gimmick and second an amazing feat.

The next thing is the AI, I have heard some people say this AI is smart. Hell some say it's the most realistic AI ever. Sure it is, if you find most people willing to stand in the open repeatedly shooting you while you shoot them realistic. At one point in the game I opened a door and found a group of enemies on the other side, I retreated inside the door and waited a few. The door opened and an enemy ran through, I of course shot it as quickly as possible in the head a few times before it died and the door closed. With out failure another and another came running through till they where all dead. As well, they have what seems more to me like a randomizer to allow them to run or hide here and there, though not intelligently. I ran into a few during the `canal' sequence where they would shoot from a bridge, run a few feet then shoot again. They never actually seek `true' cover. This AI is not only NOT smart or great; it can't even compete with older games.

As for the hype, it was way over done. Of course gamers get worked up when a title (especially a sequel to a great game) is coming out. They just tend to forget to judge it based on its merits and not it's original. This game is extremely linear and in a day and age of the `sandbox' game, you truly get put off. I found myself able to just run constantly and grab a pop in my other hand. If I had to shoot I tended to just stick with the pistol, hell I didn't even use a grenade till I decided I had to see what it was even like in this game. It isn't overly difficult if you are used to first person shooters, and the extremely linear game play does hinder it. The story is cool, and won't disappoint you. But if you really are looking for something `innovative', `new', or even `creative' this isn't the place to look.

This game is another first person shooter, with pretty graphics and an overly used physics engine.

-Dan

I can't play console game anymore after this.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are ridiculous. makes everything else pale in comparison.

Are you people SANE?!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 74
Date: October 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Oh god. Here we go again. The hype of greatness is about to be squashed under the steel heel of Valve.

Don't ANY of you get it? This game is NOT coming out in November, no way, no how. I bet ALL of you it's gonna come out sometime in spring 2005. My reasons? Check it out:
1) Valve is SCARED to release the game, because they know that the modding community could make money out of its "brilliant" creations.
2) The game is SOOO complex that it will take a WHOPPER of a computer to run. Valve's answer? Try and make the engine run on lower-spec computers, thus increasing preproduction time tenfold.
3) One word: Competition. It's taken so long for Valve to get this stuff ready that the engine may look insignificant to upcoming games like Tribes 3 and Halo 2 (You all know it. They have to make a PC version.)

I hope I saved many pre-orderers from months of frustration. Don't buy in yet. Just let Valve take its time...

Can't Wait

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 22
Date: June 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The five stars is what I want, but we'll have to wait and see.
I loved the first one and I remember when it first came out.
I have high expectations for this game, but I also hope it dosn't take to much out of my computer.
Half-Life revolutionized first person shooters and I can only hope that this one will go a step further.

rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 22
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is going to rock. I have seen sneak previews and this game [is great]. This game is going to blow the orginal half-life away.

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