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Half-Life 2: Episode Pack Review
User Submitted Half-Life 2: Episode Pack Reviews
Date: 2008-11-23
Half-Life 2 Episode Pack
These are great games and continue from half-life 2 story line. Over all a great series and i cant wait for the next one to come out.
Date: 2008-09-16
Great addition to HL2
I just haven't encountered anything that can touch HL2, and this only enhances it. Bring on EP3, Valve!
Date: 2008-06-29
half life 2 episode pack
Good Game, good to excellent graphics. Kind of neat to have some of the same foes as other Half Life Episodes, gives a serial "feel" to the game. Just when you think you have it all under control.... they throw in some newbies in the monster world for added fun !
Date: 2008-06-21
Keeps me wanting more
I have been a Half Life fan from the start. I just can't wait for the next episode. This episode was a must have for me.
Date: 2008-06-20
My God! What's your problem?
Well I've been reading lots (and I mean lots) of reviews criticizing valve, their software called steam, and HL2:E2 (half-life 2 episode 2). Now since I have a lot to say I will break up my review into two parts. Here we go!
1.THE GAME:
Personally I thought EP2 is the best HL game so far. You might ask why? Because it has this more awesome, theatrical, exciting feel than its previous games. Don't get me wrong all of them are good (EP1 not counted) in fact I just love HL2 and all of the original series (HL, HL:OP, HL:BS) but it's just that EP2 had a unique feel to it that the previous installments didn't for instance that awesome part of the game where you team up with these two guys at this base in this cave and you all blast the out of the ant lions, we don't want to spoil this or any other amazing moments of this outstanding sequel to an already perfect series but let me add that you will have to prepare for a very unexpected and emotional ending. Now some of you out there are probley now wondering what does this game have that wasn't so good? Well let me see...hmmmm... OH YEAH I remember, well near the end there is this scene in witch you have to fight a large amount of striders. (and we don't mean two to four we mean somewhere around six.) now it's the the way you go about doing this that makes it annoying, I will explain the steps:
1. Drive your car to a point where the striders are.
2. Look for this ball type explodable object.(much like the bombs in the hoth level of LEGO Star wars II)
3. By the time you find this the striders are further down the road of course so you must carry to ball to your car.
4. Place it in the back of the car.
5. Get in your car.
6. Drive down the road.
7. Aim EXACLY for the front of the strider with your gravity gun. No easy task when the strider is moving and you have two or three hunters chasing you(oh did I mention the hunters. Well the hunters are kinda like miniature, fast moving, easier to kill, striders.)
8. And BLAM!! You hit him (witch you probably didn't.)
9. choose a gun for witch to shoot that stupid ball.
10. Shoot the ball two to three times(depending on the gun you chose)
11. Repeat the steps whith the next strider and the next strider and blah
blah blah!(oh yeah did I mention that you have to do this all within a certain amount of time otherwise you will be to late for the VERY scripted ending where we have 3 sets of 3 striders all attack each each of the places you already went to?)
Another downfall of witch I really hate was the "humor" idea. This can be set both ways however as it did have some funny stuff that I do like. (But most of it-NO!) Now there wasn't enough annoying humor to wreck the game because its only when you get near the end (Or near the cool stuff.)that you see this a couple of times.
Overall I have to say that no game is perfect and that these "downfalls" do not hinder the game and I would gladly pay 100 dollars to buy this game. Game rating: 100 stars
2.STEAM:
Now steam has been probably the most criticized software program I have seen and it makes me very sad to see that. Now although steam seams like a nightmare to the average gamer it is only because when we get a game we expect to emedetley just install the game and play it, so the usual gamer like you or me just expects to pop in this disc (HL2:E2), install, play, and tada! Not so we find ourselves confused as we end up having to get some weird software that we don't know what is, make an account, then install the game, and then if that weren't enough we find that we have to download the whole game anyway and the CD has nothing on it. Well naturally you've already made up your mind that steam is the worst software you ever saw and that you won't get this game. That is SO NOT TRUE! Steam ends up as a blessing in disguise. Why? Because it lets you download hundreds of other games from other companys and play em' everywhere you go. Oh yeah steam automatically will update these games that you bought on it so you don't have to go on the web looking for patches they come looking for you! At the time I'm writing this steam is working on an idea that could change pc gaming forever, they plan to make a thing they call the steam cloud it stores all your save games on their server computer that way if you get a new pc you won't have to replay a game just to get to the last level. So like I said steam is really a blessing in disguise.
Well that's all my review is over and I just want to tell you to have fun with this game if you get it as I had many happy hours playing this game.
-I don't tell my name on the internet.
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