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Half-Life Review by David the wise, tall, good looking, and just.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying, this is a cool game. Althogh, you'll probably only play it through once. The story is pretty good, but the ending is so dumb. I'm not gonna tell you how it ends, but it's as bad as KOTOR2. There is no closure, no kissing the girl, no seeing the bad guy fall to his doom. The multi-player is awful. Infact, there is no multiplayer (heh heh). The back of my box is raited Mature for intense violence, blood and gore. They forgot to put strong language on it. There is a good bit of language used in this game. If you like RPG's you probably don't want to bother with this game. If you like shooting zombies this is the game for you. If you don't give a rip...why are you reading this? (I'm moving fast I know, but I've got a college assignment due friday, and I need to start working on it. I'm in for Video Game Art and Design, if that helps your oppinion of me any.) The cops in the game are very fun to mess with on the first level. I like to throw cans at them, and make them mad. Anyway, the graphics are good, the gameplay is fun, but the story is lacking, and the music in the game is good, but not used often enough. Hope this helps.

The only exquse

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Teh only exquse 4 not bying hl2 is a life threteing situation.BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2 g00d! buy it n00bs! buy it! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Best Xbox Game Of 2005

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There are so awesome Xbox games this year but this one is the best so far this year as soon you get that crowbar this game will become awesome and you always have to take a look at the beautiful graphics and physics engine. This game is pure perfection I would play this game forever if I could This is definetly the best Xbox game of this year

Very Good Game But The Xbox Lets It Down

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just finished HL2 on the Xbox and thought some of my observations might be helpful to other prospective buyers. My review is primarily concerned with my struggle between getting HL2 for PC or Xbox. I bought HL, HL Opposing Force and HL Blue Shift for the PC when they came out and thoroughly enjoyed them. Due to the HL2 Xbox price and the horror stories I'd read about having to be online to use the PC version of HL2, I decided to go for the Xbox version. Did I make the right choice?

HL2 is a very good game and at $20 for the Xbox version, represents excellent value for money. Great graphics, great sound and engaging game play. However, I think HL1 on the PC is a better game than HL2 on Xbox. Why?

First, the original HL was much more open ended and there was often more than one way to do something or get somewhere. With HL2, I found there was only one way.

Second, the controls for HL1 were better and configurable. With HL2 on Xbox, I found some controls to be really awkward and difficult to use. For example, there's an air boat to drive and the direction and throttle are on the same thumb stick. I assume throttle and direction are separate keys on the PC version?

Third, when there's a lot going on, for example, several Combine soldiers firing at you, explosions and a fair bit of scenery to display, the Xbox slowed down to almost a halt! It just couldn't cope with that amount of processing. I never had that problem with HL1 on the PC and assume a suitably equipped PC could cope with HL2 just as well.

Lastly, as others have mentioned you didn't have to go very far in HL2 before you saw a `loading' screen. The frequency at which you saw this did become distracting and annoying after a while. One plus for HL2 is there's no weird psychedelic alternative dimension like there was in HL1. Remember all that hopping from floating platform to floating platform and plants that light up when you went near them? All that nonsense has gone away which was a relief!

On reflection, most of my gripes about HL2 have more to do with the Xbox version rather than the game itself. If I had to choose again, I'd buy HL2 on the PC and will certainly get any HL2 spin off games for the PC if they are to appear like they did for HL1. If not, I'll wait for HL3 which the ending of HL2 leaves open.

Best X Box game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Without question, this is the best X-box game ever ( yes, better than Halo!)
I had a blast playing it!
It is not a full throttle FPS like Black or Mercenaries, but rather a sophisticated (yet very exciting) FPS.
Highly recommended!

Half Life 2 for XBox /XBox 360

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game play is the best, the storyline. The graphics are good also. The puzzles that are presented are challenging.

Jesus Christ

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is still vastly superior to any xbox 360, and as for people who dont own an xbox. This game is seriously worth it. I promise it will be well worth buying the system and the game. I have played through this 13 times and still see no reason to play anything else.

I have vista, and half life 2 crashed.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I Love the game but, it crashed on windows vista.
Do you have a patch?

Awesome game! Tons of fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games I've ever played. It's also very long and tons of fun for hours and hours of game playing.

Now compatible on the 360!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

One of the best, most engulfing FPS games *ever* is now playable on the xbox 360 (until recently the xbox game did not play on the 360 and I thought i'd have to wait for the 360 version to come out - due soon, i believe). Even so, i'm probably going to have to get the 360 version when that comes out; i'm sure it'll be even more amazing.

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