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Well, I had some cash to spend, plus I coaxed Wal-mart to lower the price to $40 and I now own Half-Life 2.
Ignoring the hour installation and the 4.5 gb hit your hard drive will take, your system will need to be exceedingly good to play this game. I have a 1.6 Ghtz Pentium 4, 512 Mb Of Ram, GeForce 3 and I experince occiasional slow down after the long load times and when there is a scripted event about to occur. Other than that, I get great performance from this title.
The graphics are the definition of how games should be going. G-Man's face is filled with expressions, and he is just one of the characters who was fully animated.
The story is nice and mysterious, but has an aspect that I like, Totalitarian Government needing to be overthrown. With that, you will see quite a few characters from the first one.
The sound is INCREDIBLE. The soundtrack is mostly techno, and not my cup of tea personally, but when you are in combat, it pushes you. The weapons sound extremely realistic when fired and the voice acting is superb.
The gameplay kept all great things of the first and added newer features to improve it. Vehicles are a welcomed addition to the game and the physics are incredible. Nothing beats running by panes of glass that shatter like real life when shot. Every object that would be normally able to be picked up, can and can be used to solve the interwoven puzzles.
I would seriously not recommend this though until after you have played the games you truly enjoy. This game will make you not want to even touch the boxes. It is so impressive and unbelieveable I am wanting to play to see what happens next.
My only compliant is personal as I prefer non-linear, open-ended games and for the most part(so far), it is very linear, but I am enjoying it way too much to care.
Overall Rating: 10/10
*Note: This is 1 of 5 games in my 14 years of games that I would give a 10 out of 10, so do not take my rating as typical.
Ignoring the hour installation and the 4.5 gb hit your hard drive will take, your system will need to be exceedingly good to play this game. I have a 1.6 Ghtz Pentium 4, 512 Mb Of Ram, GeForce 3 and I experince occiasional slow down after the long load times and when there is a scripted event about to occur. Other than that, I get great performance from this title.
The graphics are the definition of how games should be going. G-Man's face is filled with expressions, and he is just one of the characters who was fully animated.
The story is nice and mysterious, but has an aspect that I like, Totalitarian Government needing to be overthrown. With that, you will see quite a few characters from the first one.
The sound is INCREDIBLE. The soundtrack is mostly techno, and not my cup of tea personally, but when you are in combat, it pushes you. The weapons sound extremely realistic when fired and the voice acting is superb.
The gameplay kept all great things of the first and added newer features to improve it. Vehicles are a welcomed addition to the game and the physics are incredible. Nothing beats running by panes of glass that shatter like real life when shot. Every object that would be normally able to be picked up, can and can be used to solve the interwoven puzzles.
I would seriously not recommend this though until after you have played the games you truly enjoy. This game will make you not want to even touch the boxes. It is so impressive and unbelieveable I am wanting to play to see what happens next.
My only compliant is personal as I prefer non-linear, open-ended games and for the most part(so far), it is very linear, but I am enjoying it way too much to care.
Overall Rating: 10/10
*Note: This is 1 of 5 games in my 14 years of games that I would give a 10 out of 10, so do not take my rating as typical.