The graphics are incredible to a game released in 2004, and in my opinion, is the first game released in the so-called seventh generation. It is up to the poor player to figure out some doctor is trying to fly to another dimension. And unlike Halo, Metroid or Bioshock, where you can understand the storyline just by log found through the game and NPC commentaries, no one in HL2 is of any help. To be honest, you could trade Gordon Freeman (that's your playable character) for Samus or Master Chief and no one would notice the difference. You will have a hard time to understand what's going on since your character pronnounces not a single word during the game. Why this does not seem very smart to me? Whatever. and you will expend most of your first playing hours trying to get to the place you were supposed to be. Then you met a old friend of yours, and you are conducted to some sort of lab where a teleportation experiment goes wrong. Tne guards do nothing to you except hit you some times. That's the way the game blocks you access. You walk around - many of the places you can see are blocked by guards with some kind of eletric weapon or energy barriers topped by cameras. This small issue was later corrected by Valve in games like Left 4 Dead.Īfter you leave the train, you will find yourself in a depressing city built around a gigantic building, towered to the skies. Look around, but don't try to look below - otherwise you will get the bizzarre feeling you are no more than a floating camera.
Then you apparently awake on a train, the kind of train one would expect to find on big cities' suburbs. At first, you won't understand many of it.
The game begins in some sort of dream, where a man with distinctive greenish eyes say some random words to you. There is word a third expansion is yet to come, named (guess it - I know you can do it) Episode 3. Two expansion packs were released also, named Episode 1 and 2. Really a lot of sales - over 10 million on PC alone, a feat only a few select games managed to accomplish. As the first one, HL2 received a lot of praise, a nice and good rating at aggregate review scores, plus a lot of sales. Six years later, the game has a sequel released, properly named Half-life 2. Half-life was relased in 1998 to receive massive critical and mainstream acclaim, and be hailed as the best first person shooter ever released and the most innovative PC action game since Doom was released back on the early 90's. Value - 8.0 The sequel to one of the most acclaimed first person shooters holds some of his merit, for sure.
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