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Anti-Citizen One: In which our silent pal, Gordo Freeman, gets his Rambo on.
Random Reistance Fighter #1: Hey, it's Freeman! Let's go with him and provide ineffectual fire sup-- Gets shot and dies
RRF #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...: What he sai- Gets shot and dies.
"Follow Freeman": I hate snipers. And Striders. And pop turrets... At this point in the game I just left God Mode on and began slogging.
Our Benefactors: I lurv my Gravity Gun. Aren't you the best widdle Combine crushing tractor beam EVER? Yes you are, yes you are!
Dark Energy: In a surprising move for a FPS, you don't have a Final Boss to knock over, instead playing against the clock to kill Citadel's reactor in order to stop Breen from getting away.
Which he does anyway.
And the reactor blows up in your face, your survival only coming about because G-Man snatches you back, but leaves Alyx behind. (Yeah, I know she comes back in Episode 1, but I imagine it was a bitch of an ending to have to see when first time players finished it off, before they new more content was coming.)
Overall, HF2 is a vast improvement over the original Half-Life, which wasn't exactly a slouch to start with. The graphic detail, even with a four year old game, is freaking incredible. Even though you are thruoughly railroaded, like pretty much every other FPS, the illusion of wide open spaces (especially in the Highway 17 chapter) is well done. The fact that I got it bundled with four other games is as good a deal as you're ever going to find.
Random Reistance Fighter #1: Hey, it's Freeman! Let's go with him and provide ineffectual fire sup-- Gets shot and dies
RRF #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...: What he sai- Gets shot and dies.
"Follow Freeman": I hate snipers. And Striders. And pop turrets... At this point in the game I just left God Mode on and began slogging.
Our Benefactors: I lurv my Gravity Gun. Aren't you the best widdle Combine crushing tractor beam EVER? Yes you are, yes you are!
Dark Energy: In a surprising move for a FPS, you don't have a Final Boss to knock over, instead playing against the clock to kill Citadel's reactor in order to stop Breen from getting away.
Which he does anyway.
And the reactor blows up in your face, your survival only coming about because G-Man snatches you back, but leaves Alyx behind. (Yeah, I know she comes back in Episode 1, but I imagine it was a bitch of an ending to have to see when first time players finished it off, before they new more content was coming.)
Overall, HF2 is a vast improvement over the original Half-Life, which wasn't exactly a slouch to start with. The graphic detail, even with a four year old game, is freaking incredible. Even though you are thruoughly railroaded, like pretty much every other FPS, the illusion of wide open spaces (especially in the Highway 17 chapter) is well done. The fact that I got it bundled with four other games is as good a deal as you're ever going to find.
