Gordon Freeman became the most popular nameless and voiceless protagonist in gaming history. He is painted as the most famous scientist and a hero within the world of Half-Life, and for a good reason. In the first game he saved the planet from alien invasion, this time, when the invasion is already begun, the world needs his help one more time. And you, as a player, will help this world to survive. This time Gordon arrives in City 17, ravaged and occupied by Combines, where he meets his old Blac...
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☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
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☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
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☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
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Half-Life 2 is one of the all time greats. Unmatched worldbuilding, good mix of HL1 style throwback as well as new environments, enemies, and gameplay. I've played HL2 through at least twice before, but over 10 years ago. Of course I remembered much of the main story, the helplessness when arriving in city17 initially and facing the can guard. I ha...
What more can be said? Absolute masterpiece.
Half-Life 2 elevated FPS and gaming in general to a level that is pretty difficult to match, and that's probably why there's still no Half-Life 3 as of 2026.
As an FPS, it lets the gameplay tell its story with practically no interruptions, and it introduces new concepts like weapons and enemies fantas...
I originally pirated this game, then finished it and it's expansions. It was so good, that I bought The Orange Box on Steam AND The Orange Box for the XBOX 360, now it's one of my holy grails.
P.S.: I stopped pirating games, now I have the money to buy the games I already loved to pay back to the Developers.