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Opinion: Half-Life 2

07 Aug 2009 22:22:15 PDT

Written by leonmagnus90
Anyway, lets just say that Half Life is a masterpiece. Then finally after 6 years, in E3 2003, they announced the upcoming sequel of Half-Life, that sure stirred up the world as fans of Half Life were celebrating as if its a holiday. Delayed several times due to errors and games that is being le...

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Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Review

06 Jul 2009 15:11:52 PDT

Written by geoffcalver
Half Life 2: Episode Two begins right where Episode 1 left off. The Citadel has come crashing to the ground, City 17 is in ruins, and your train out of dodge has derailed. You awake to find Alyx outside, thankful you’re alive. She helps you out using the Gravity Gun, and thus begins your mission.

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Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Review

06 Jul 2009 15:11:52 PDT

Original story at terminalgamer.com .

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Half Life 2 Episode One GT Review

02 May 2009 17:53:35 PDT

Written by rss@youtube.com (RuneFilms1256)
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Opinion: Wertzone Classics: Half-Life 2

24 Jan 2009 13:19:00 PST

Written by noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead)
Half-Life 2 (****½) is no longer available as a solo game in the UK, but only as part of The Orange Box, alongside Episode One, Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and the spectacular Portal. This package, available for the PC, X-Box 360 and PlayStation 3, is well-recommended. The game is still avai...

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Opinion: Valve offers entire catalog of games for $99

24 Nov 2008 19:40:36 PST

- Some of the games included in the pack are the recently released Left 4 Dead, Portal, Team Fortress 2, all of the Half-Life games, and a lot more. ... Review: Left 4 Dead for PC Geek.com all 2 news articles

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Half-Life news and blogs - November 20, 2009

20 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Half-Life news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Half-Life 2 Episode One (DVD) User Review 23104 -- from Google Video - -site:youtube.com "Half Life" Valve OR Fortress OR Episode OR Portal OR disambiguation OR Episodic OR Dystopia OR SMOD OR suedama OR GC OR Fistful OR Steam OR Fixed OR Halflife OR middleware OR FPS OR Print OR "now available" OR PC OR Xbox OR Frags OR mod OR Gamasutra OR Halo OR Lombardi OR RPG OR Newell OR Tactical OR Freeman OR Playstation OR Gabe OR DM
• Portal: Still Alive Review (Xbox 360) -- from TeamXbox
• Portal: Still Alive Review (Xbox Live Arcade) -- from Snappy Gamer
• The Orange Box: Half-Life 2 (Xbox 360) Review -- by Juxtapose from Arbiter's Judgement
• Qosmio Review: Part 3d -- by Joeb from Joeb's Blog...Thing
• Half-Life 2: The Orange Box ~ Review -- by Rirath from TwiddleGeek
• Half Life 2 reviewed - Geezer Gamers -- from "Half Life" Valve OR "Valve Software" OR "Source engine" OR "Team Fortress" OR "Black Mesa" OR "Gordon Freeman" OR "Day of Defeat" OR "Blue Shift" OR Retrieved OR "ref name" OR "They Hunger" OR "Opposing Force" OR Portal OR Lambda OR "Counter Strike Team Fortress" OR "High Definition Pack" OR "Gabe Newell" OR "resonance cascade" OR Deathmatch OR "Counter Strike" OR "scripted sequences" OR GameSpy OR mods OR "Sega Dreamcast" OR "Game of the Year" OR "Hazardous Environment Combat Unit" OR "Marc Laidlaw" OR "fully playable" OR "Team Fortress Classic" OR "Sierra On Line" OR "Gearbox Software" OR "Dreamcast version" - Google News
• re: Half-Life 2 Review -- by ryan from Half-Life 2 Review
• re: Half-Life 2 Review -- by Jon from Half-Life 2 Review
• re: Half-Life 2 Review -- by kel from Half-Life 2 Review

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Half-Life 2 Review & Other Tid-bits by LosDaddie

13 Oct 2008 08:06:44 PDT

Anyway, here is why you should play HL2 if you haven't already:Gameplay: VALVe shows why it is one of the best FPS developers in the industry. A very "refined" FPS experience with great pacing & tight controls.Audio: Superb audio design. My Dolby Digtial 5.1 system got a nice work-out wit...

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Opinion: Fistful of Frags Interview

04 Oct 2008 06:15:11 PDT

Written by Daimyo
FoF: I started modding (in a serious way) with Half-Life 2, I guess the choice was made before the mod development started. I feel comfortable with Source, it has the widest modding community and Valve has a good track of modding support.

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Opinion: Half-Life: Blue Shift - Completed

08 Dec 2007 00:19:25 PST

Written by *Legion*
Next up is Gearbox’s little-known third Half-Life expansion, Decay. While Decay was only officially released as an added chapter to the PlayStation 2 port of Half-Life, a mod team has been hard at work porting it to the PC (I previously stated on this blog that the mod was a Source-engine mo...

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DigitalBattle’s Half Life 2 + Episodes Review

10 Nov 2007 15:09:33 PST

Written by Brian Lockhart
Which really means one thing; those picking up The Orange Box with no experience of Half Life 2 are probably the minority. Instead, Portal, Team Fortress 2 and the episodes are the new content for the general consumer. ...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

01 Apr 2007 10:00:17 PDT

Written by Writer Unit32
Episode One was great too.Everything HL2 was,but better.Yeah,it was short,but it's a friggin' episode! Episode Two looks like it's gonna be amazing.The trailers roXX0rd my soXX0rs and I dare not try to find any flaws.And when I imagine playing it...

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Opinion: Half Life 2's Developer Commentary

05 Sep 2006 08:53:06 PDT

There have been a couple earlier attempts at in-game commentary, most notably the "Developer's Cut" of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004), a game that sounds awful but is widely considered one of the best modern first-person shooters. Valve was clearly inspired b...

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PC Game Review: Half-Life 2 - Episode 1

02 Jun 2006 05:08:04 PDT

Written by Armin Siljkovic
Half Life 2 has sold millions of copies and won countless awards for its excellent achievement in creating a cinematic gaming experience. The official sequel, Episode 1, used to be called "Aftermath," but developer Valve chose to split it up in three Episodes, released over two years. The...

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PC Game Review: SiN Episode 1 - Emergence

21 May 2006 06:32:50 PDT

Written by Armin Siljkovic
The original SiN game came out at about the same time as Half Life, in 1997. And as Half Life stole all the attention, not much was left for SiN, witch was a mediocre game, all things considered. Now the first of several episodes has been released via Steam, and sports a few hours of game play for r...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

21 Mar 2006 13:17:20 PST

Written by Dongo
I recommend getting the Xbox version though. At least you don't have to install crappyware as Steam on your PC. I also noticed that the Xbox version does not have stutteting problems. It lags in some places though, but usually, when it happens, it happens in places without much importance, wh...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

21 Mar 2006 11:40:20 PST

Written by Loki
I still don't get the story. You move from A to B, everybody seems to know Freeman but Freeman can't say a word the whole damn game. Doom had at least a sound when you tried to press the open-door key in a wall or were getting hit. Freeman is voiceless.

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

15 Mar 2006 11:10:35 PST

Written by Clacker
What alot of people think of as plot holes (like why only certain aliens attack you) failed to realize the actions in HL1 affected the HL2 world, and the only aliens that attack you are xen animals without low intelligence. They will attack everyone, including the Combine. Gordon saved th...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

10 Dec 2004 18:33:00 PST

Written by I.T. Sme
It would seem reasomable it will all end as some sort of computer simulation/alternate reality, simply because in both games everytime you get killed or don't accomplish an objective you get a message something like, "subject Gordon Freeman failed to do..blah..blah." It wouldn't surprise...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

08 Dec 2004 06:35:00 PST

Written by NightHawk_101
Overall a superb, exciting and obviously the best game of the year for myself and others. Go HL2!!! It rocks. Looking forward to HL3 all!!! P.S: For all you Halo 2 fans; HL2 S#%T's all over Halo 2 in more ways then one.

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

02 Dec 2004 15:55:00 PST

Written by pissed of at HL
Another thing that didnt ruin the game but is a step down is that this time around the balck and white headcrabs are the only aliens youll really have to worry about (along with the headcrab controlled zombies). EVERYTHING else is combine. Yeah you get a few of those hanging aliens from hl1 whi...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

01 Dec 2004 12:39:00 PST

Written by Mr Anderson...
One thing you have to understand (to all the ending haters) is that Half Life 1's ending was no better than its sequal. This leaves the game open for more storyline, i find it intreguing that Half Life could actually become a Saga rather than a one time blow off. To be honest, the only reason we we...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

30 Nov 2004 19:39:00 PST

Written by I have gone insane over hl2's ending
and Freeman is comparable to neo in the matrix...someone with insurmountable energy and natural super intelligence (the reason he survives--using his head) and is noted by the G-man as "the one" that can bring back the balance to nature on Earth..the G-man thus, uses Freeman as a weapon to aid...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

29 Nov 2004 18:58:00 PST

Written by devon
As for the ending, WTF. I mean, I love HL, but the ending delivered nothing. It pretty much left the whole game as it started, (SPOILER ALERT for all you nerdz.) Gordon is still incarcerated by the G-man. But where the hell were all the aliens and cool monsters of Half Life 1? Where were the puzzles...

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re: Half-Life 2 Review

23 Nov 2004 11:52:00 PST

Written by Dave
Also, another big short coming was the lack of multiplayer experience. How can you release a first person shooter without the mplayer aspect of the game. I enjoy at the end of the day a good fight out with 30 other individuals online. Hopefully this will come though add-ons.

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A Hanselman Review: Doom 3 vs. FarCry vs. Half-Life 2 vs. Halo 2

21 Nov 2004 18:36:19 PST

Multiplayer Rank Game My Thoughts 1 Half-Life 2 Great graphics, great puzzles, great story, great feel, great experience. Steam rocks with auto-updates and patching. My favorite and the ultimate FPS PC game so far. 2 Halo 2 Unparalleled totally seamless multiplayer with up to 16 folks tra...

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