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So Close To Perfection!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Damn this game was almost perfect. I mean it was teetering on perfection. The first twenty minutes of gameplay I spent weeping at its brilliance.

One major hang-up. LOAD TIMES. I usually don't bitch about load times. Hell, I played "Morrowind" ritually, and God knows they've mastered the art of allowing you to cook a four-course meal between loading screens.

But in Half-Life 2 the load times will actually devastate the pace of the game. At first I overlooked them, after all it's an immaculate game with graphics that surpass anything seen on the XBOX.

Then you get to the airboat, which easily rivals driving the warthog in Halo (die, Halo 2! Die!). The action is intense and you really honestly feel like you're right there, driving that damn thing.

Loading...

You're back---you're soaring through the water channel being chased by a helicopter. You leap a wall of scrap metal and escape the chopper's gunfire into a sewer tunn---

Loading...

You fly out of the tunnel into the open again, but here comes the helicop---

Loading...

And it goes on and on and on, until I literally just turned the damn thing off. I'd already played the level for forty-minutes easily, and every four minutes of gameplay was interrupted by forty-seconds of loading.

Loading killed this beautiful, well-imagined game.

Damn...

Potentially excellent game but....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: March 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Some huge levels with excellent designs but the graphics seemed a bit hazy/fuzzy/scratchy. Most of the levels are kind of empty of action. There are some truly awesome bits where I was thinking "WOW!" then a lot of other bits where I was going "YAAWWWN!!"

Some cool weapons (especially the gravity gun), and cut-scenes but overall a bit boring. Massive potential but the combat scenes needed to be more intense, longer and more of them. (I like blowing stuff up ok?) Half Life 2 allows you to save at any point which is cool. Lots of puzzles, and you can interact with lots of objects, (check out the tyre swing; whack it and watch the amazing life-like reactions)
Overall pretty interesting but a bit dull, extreme anti-climatic ending. Unfortunately I cannot but help compare any FPS to the Halo games, and in my opinion, this comes close but no cigar...

WTF STOP LOADING!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life 2 for pc put on the x-box sounds like it should work. The core gameplay is still the same and is good fun once you get a few hours into it. The graphics are decent but won't blow you away like the pc versian. So what's the problem it's Half-life 2 on the x-box just a little watered down. Well there is one single problem that really irritates me to the point i would give it three stars. L.O.A.D.I.N.G!!!! This game loads more than you actually play it. It simply ruins the action! Your in the middle of a tense adrenaline pumped chase and your really into it when it all suddenly stops and the game loads. The loading times last between seven to thirty seconds and it really just makes you want to swear at the t.v. screen. Half-life 2 for x-box isn't bad game but it is completley inferior to the p.c. problem which had loading problems as well. It's possibly worth a rental if can sit through all the constant loading but beyond the loading issue it's worth a playthrough. There is no multiplayer and the single player is all your getting so don't buy.

wait for the xbox360 version

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i never played the pc version but i imagine it is a smoothly running version of this game. if thats the case then it must be incredible. this game however has a choppy framerate too much of the time. for a guy like me who has been playing games like halo and call of duty it was too much for me, i ended up quiting before i got to the end. the story seemed awesome and the visuals were sweet but neither is good enough to put up with the absolutely lousy framerate issues

Kinda Boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great the story is pretty good but everything takes forever. This is an impressive game its just that it gets a little boring and easy. I also don't like first person shooters that don't have two players I need to interact with others I guess. Halo is the way to go

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?

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.

Style with little substance.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Visually this is one of the most impressive games out there, and is pretty much the only element that makes it worth playing. People keep praising how good the story is. Nonsense! This game has very little in story, it has ACTION SET PIECES. Much of them are quite interchangeable with each other, within each of the main acts you pretty much shuffle them around and it wouldn't make much difference. For example, the early chase sequences all look like the L.A. river/Sepulveda basin. The main character is basically a non-entity, so why would he have such a following in that world? You're character seems to contribute very little to the events except for the finale. With all the attention they made to character models you can't even interact with them like in the first game. The A.I. is bad, and clearly scripted which looks more apparent on open sized levels.

A very disappointing port of a great game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Xbox can't handle Half-Life 2 plain and simple. That is the source of our problems here. The graphics aren't as good as they are on the PC. They look fuzzy, and at times some areas of the game look almost unfinished. The controls are uncomfortable and are not done well compared to other console FPS games. Playing Gordon feels spastic and overall very sloppy. There are also glitches everywhere.One minute you're jumping on a box trying to get up, then you get stuck, then you magically teleport to where you were trying to jump to and the box is gone.The worst of all is the frame rate. It is absolutely horrible. At times it makes the game unplayable. I seriously didn't even finish he game because of how crappy the frame rate was. The only reason this game is rated above a 4.0 is that I have played the PC version and know how great it can be, so the parts that weren't totally screwed up really shine and brought my rating up 2.5 points. Just go out and buy The Orange Box, its a much better console version of the game that fixes all the problems of this version, not to mention it also includes the expansions, tam fortress 2, and portal.

Good but short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Really enjoyed this game, good graphics and story line. Wish it was a little longer and that you could play more than one player. Middle levels challegeing but end level to easy.

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