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• Guest 30th Apr 2009

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  Half Life 2 had great story, gameplay, and kept me itching for a sequel.
  

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• tyrantrope 9th Nov 2006

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  Do not buy the Half-Life 2 PC game, as it leeches all ideas from other, more successful games. There is nothing original at all. It is the worst ending to a game ever. If you don't already own it, get Alien vs Predator 2 instead.

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• starling death 20th Jul 2006

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  Half-life2 was a very memorable and enjoyable experience for me. The only frustration was Steam, which you need to install to play the game. I didnt bother, though, 4 hours without progress, I got another version of half-life, from my sources without steam. I think that is fine seeing as I already paid for the game. Then it was great, everything sparked, exploded, or made a noise. There are even realtime interactions! Take, for example, the mini teleporters in Dr.klein's lab; you can drag anythi ...

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• jon10 5th Nov 2005

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  First you will be lucky if you ever manage to play Half Life 2 at all as you will probably not be able to get an account with the site (look how many people can not) Then ask the support team for help & look how many changes you have to make to your pc every time you want to play & then have to reinstate to use your pc again. I have thrown the game away without playing once. It is a con

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• DJ X 8th Oct 2005

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  Lets be honest, we all expected Half-Life 2 to be the game of the century, but what we got was far from that. Although, I really did enjoy it while it lasted.
  
  The best part of it is that the package I bought it with, gave me counterstrike source. Possibly the best multiplayer game ever! It's very close to Black Hawk Down in my view

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• amurrayx 9th Sep 2005

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  Half-Life 2 was so over-hyped, and as anticipated some people were disappointed. I've learned to ignore most hype for movies and games for exactly the reason that seldom a product can live up to the imagined perfection, so people feel let down. That said, the graphics, physics, game play, virtual characters and dialogue, are all either well above par or almost perfect. HL2 and Far Cry are without doubt, in a class by themselves for First Person Shooters.
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• rudeboymick 17th Aug 2005

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  Half life 2 is a great game, but if you want to play the multiplayer component of it, or if you want to play counter strike source, be warned!!
  
  Valve, the games creators, have an anti cheat system called valve anti cheat (VAC). If you are found to be a cheat, then you are banned for life, and have to buy another copy of the game to play.
  
  I'm all for banning cheats, but what valve don't tell you is that "cheat" can refer to a few things: people who manipulate game files to gain an advanta ...

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• Mr Matt 4th Apr 2005

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  Half-Life 2 was the veritable Holy Grail of many gamers for years after the Half-Life phenomenon started back in 1998. Valve certainly are the masters of hype, milking it with every opportunity they got. And, after several delays, we finally got our Holy Grail.
  
  Half-Life 2 is set in what appears to be an East European city, City 17, in a world radically different from the one Gordon Freeman left behind after the events at Black Mesa. An alien race known only as the 'Combine' have taken over t ...

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• ronniehuss 12th Mar 2005

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  Half-Life 2 is truly the best game made in the world, ever. Multiplayer brings it out into it's own, and development kit ensures a constant supply of new levels keeps the game fresh.

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• Beeper 7th Dec 2004

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  Half-Life 2 is too short, too easy and not enough brain food.
  I am sorry, perhaps I played a different game...
  
  It was well below my expectations, I adored HL1 and play Counter Strike with an alarming regularity so I am a fan of Valve in general. I bought the game via my Steam account and so I didn't have any of the problems many people mention with install and registration.
  
  It starts, as did the first with a long video sequence and you quickly enter the game. I suppose the makers have to ...

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• deltasniper 1st Dec 2004

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  To sum up: I eagerly awaited my half life 2 copy, I had been awaiting it's arrival for years like so many other fans. When it FINALLY arrived, I was thrilled, except the STEAM registration and log on process can take from several hours to days, the storyline is extremely vague at best, there is a noticeable disppointment in A.I and in graphics especially textures. Very short areas before another long loading sequence, steam registration tragic, poor weapons, poor enemies, good areas of the game ...

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• Robert Dowell 25th Nov 2004

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  When I purchased my ASUS Video card back in February 2004 it had a coupon for Half Life 2. This was of course when the game was due to be released in the first half of the year and not delayed and delayed on and on etc....
  
  When the final element had been downloaded I was able to un-encrypt it and head straight into the game and see what all this hype, smoke and mirrors was all about.
  
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  The first impression was one of annoyance and impatience. It had ...

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• Turbonium 20th Nov 2004

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  So far I'm having so much fun just messing around in the game and re-playing certain bits just to fool around with the physics of Half-Life 2.
  
  The graphics are great and run smooth on an Athlon 3200+, ATI 9800pro 256 meg, 1 gig system ram machine. This is the only system I've played it on so far, I won't guess what it can do on faster or slower systems.
  
  Check the usual online gaming sites for all the techno-detail stuff.
  
  The game is addictive, it's great to look at and the 'wow gee ...

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• jabronibasher 23rd Apr 2004

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  I loved the first Half Life, and like many others, I know that the wonderful feeling of playing Half Life for the first time will come again...with Half Life 2. Not much is known yet about the most anticipated game in the world, but it doesn't take much to get people hyped.
  But from what is known, through previews, videos and interviews, it's obvious that HL2 will yet again dominate. Next Generation graphics(we're all suckers for graphics) combined with the same addictive gameplay plus a whole ...

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