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Originally Posted by Junkenstein
I could say that even after all those years HL2 is probably as close to a perfect game as you can play.
It has the putrid yet perfecytly clean atmosphere down pat (That atmosphere thatp's omnipresent in District 9's Johannisburg)
It doesnt have a dull moment. It goes like rocket on coffe from the first scene to the ending.
It still looks cool as hell.
And, mostly, it has the most simple yet inhumanly cool playable main charcter in the story of gaming. Valve makes you a silent unassuming being but makes you do incredibly intelligent yet uber-brutal stuff. You blow up stuff, but you always do it in a clever and hilarious way (my favourites are still freeing the road from obstacles with the gravity gun, or smashing people to a pulp with a working crane...)
Freeman has zero stuff yet is the ultimate badass with a simple croiwbar and a few crates.
Also, alyx has a nice ass.
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Originally Posted by Kydizzle
damn you dude. i kept jumping in and out of the thought of playing this game for the same reason. i'd play the whole thing over again. favorite part is the spider walker in the tunnel and you're running away and kind of shooting and its like an action movie.
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Originally Posted by Junkenstein
A sci-fi action movies but conceived by ironic sci-fi geeks.
Splatting zombies by dropping giant cars on them. Using the gravity gun to rearrange the roads and drive ultrafast. walking on an eiffel like tower, while branding a rocket launcher.
Per-fect
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Half-Life 2 just got so much
right. Even though the technology has been surpassed, I still think that HL2 + episodes are the definitive statement on the linear FPS.
Funny you should mention District 9, the first thing I thought when I saw both that and Children of Men was 'looks like Half Life 2', I wouldn't be surprised if they were influenced by it.