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A civialised review from a twelve year old not about STEAM!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I,as many other gamers, had been in huge anticipation for half life two, i did not download the source leak, because i would rather not download something that was stolen, AND i didn't want to have tid-bits of the storyline revealed to me. So i picked up this game the first day it came out and went through the instilation process and downloaded "The dreaded steam" (which really isn't bad). When i tried to play the game it was horribly glitchy so i ran outside and rode 5 miles to my grandma's house and she graciously let me install it there, now she has a Pentium 4 3.2 or .4 GHZ i can't rememberand 512 MBs of ram. It worked amazingly well, the environments are great and very interactive, which you can tell with the gravity gun, you can rip letters of display signs at movie theaters, cans of paint and more. The Vehicles are also very well done as well, they handle nicely and very realisticly. The physics are also finominal. Which basicly means a letter of a sign can be thrown farther and harder than a dumpster. And last, but not least, the graphics. Wow, your allies look near perfect, but i believe noone compares to The G-man, he looks real, and i am not joking by this statement. My only Concern was the voice stududududududering. Its only happened 3 times, and that was when i forgot to close MSN Messenger in the background. So in X-play style. Half Life 2 Gets a 5........out of 5.

A PC Gaming Masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This gaming generation's standard for storytelling, graphics, and game play. After the initial shock of the incredible graphics and interactive environment, the story began slow, then built up speed, and then had me hanging on for dear life when it shifted from 2nd into 5th gear! The interactivity and the gravity gun are revolutionary gaming elements; the gravity gun is not there for novelty's sake but instead is an essential part of the story and beating the game. Bravo, bravo, bravo Sierra/Valve!

*SPOILER WARNING*
The cliffhanger ending is a sure hook to get HL3 when (not if) it comes out...it seemed like we only got part of the story in this episode and there's a whole lot more story to be told...

half life 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

From EDDIE
The best thing i like so far abut Half Life 2 that you dont have to take a flashlight out to see anything like in doom3

The maps are so intresting tons of things and places to find in 1 map.

Another good thing is that you get 2 extra games with the $49
Counter-strike:source and Half-Life:deathmatch which are both online games for Steam.

And when i first knew about it i thought it will be just like half-life 1 but since it won awards i was confinced.

Iam amazed by the graphics of the games with over 40 facil
muscels on caraters. ITS A MUST HAVE FOR SERIOUS GAMERS!!!

Amazing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing FPS. It is everything that I ask from an FPS. It's intelligent, thrilling, creative and doesn't get repetitive. There's no area (except for the detailed bodies of the creatures) where Doom III can come close to HL2. The area which makes biggest difference is the physics, which is amazing in HL2.

And the gunship's such a pain!

Dissapointed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had high hopes for this game. Really high hopes...I woke up early the dy it was released in order to play it first out of everyone I knew. I beat the game in 16 hours over two days. That was over a month ago, and I haven't played since. It was fun while it lasted, but there are problems I have. There is limited replayability, and CS Source is really the same as CS 1.6. A great game, but until the mods start coming out, I won't be playing it.
So,
Pros:
Amazing Graphics
Superb Physics Engine
Lots of Fun to play
Cons:
No replay value
CS source laggy and almost same as original CS
Steam is annoying, sometimes I can't play offline

The best game so far!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I liked half life 2 except for that stupid steam thing that took forever. The games graphics are amazing and the game is fun my favorite level is we dont go to raven holm the zombie infested town is really fun when you use the gravity gun!!But I beat the game in only 4 days without cheating. But thats because I stayed up nights and days playing it. The end of the game is real easy with the blue gravity gun wich picks anything up. Half life 1 was a little better but half life 2 never stops moving and there are vehicles that are really fun to play. So I realy like this game and i recomend it!!!

A long time Halflife Fan...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off... People need to read system requirements on the boxes of games, and or do more research.

Second the game is phenominal. I have a simple Dell 4600... Except for a better graphics card (a wimpy 256 MB Radeon 9550)
everything on my computer is stock. The game itself is great and because I owned the first halflife I already had a Steam account which makes things much easier.

Strengths: The games graphics, AI, storyline and flow are all great. Water looks real (literally real) Characters move and speak fluidly. The AI enemies think and engage together. The storyline is interesting and the game overall plays fine.

Weakness: The Loading Times... The loading times for me are normally 1-2 minutes for the next area to load. I'm simply going to buy some RAM to help this.

Overall: Buy it if you don't have a crappy computer. :)

Few Things People Should Know About HL 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Half Life 2 is a great game!
Engine is awesome, story is engrossing, and pretty much everything else is good too.

Players w/o a top-end machine should anticipate many slow loading times (it takes three different loading processes to begin playing everytime); serious sound stuttering, which has plagued many players and i have chosen to ignore; subtle pauses during explosions or other intricate occurrences; the elimination of characters that we were expecting, such as the hydra, prowlers, female combine assassins, and also fighting various types of stalkers.

If you can fully enjoy the game with these flaws, then u r in for a treat, personally i think this should be a given since HL2 is extremely high profile, ergo just disregard your complaints.

OHH, also the ending... is uhhh... bad.

Valve obviously did multiple renditions of the HL2 plot, making it up as they go to fit its "grand scheme", somehow they decided it was the most suitable ending, but i disagree, and you will probably find it estranging seeing it the 1st time.

FINAL WORD: HL2 is not the greatest PC game ever made, even though me and countless others expected it to be. It is not a timeless classic but a worthy and notable transition to another game, HL3, which will be... uhh... the greatest PC game ever made, at least we hope so.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Game looks great and it play wonderfully. But the ending was horrible! I hope they have an expansion pack soon. Even though, overall, I was extremely pleased with the sequel to the greatest game ever.

Small bang for the wait

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The environment, graphics, usable objects, and animations have greatly improved from Half Life. However, it runs much slower than the first game and I found the interface frustrating.

For instance, you can only jump about four inches off the ground. There were times where I spent fifteen to thirty minutes stacking items up against a wall, only to find that I could not jump over it not matter how high the stack.

It also took forever to load between levels and between scenes. It seemed I was always waiting for the game to load.

In multi-player mode the game ran much slower than the original Half-life or Halo. They nerfed the crossbow and the rocket launcher interface is just plain weird. The gravity gun is cool, but hard to manipulate.

The Steam package is good idea and I really liked the improvements to Counter Strike.

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