Half-Life 2

Product Description
Half-Life 2 picks up exactly where its predecessor leaves off, with gamers stepping once more into Gordon Freeman's HVAC suit as he awakes at some indeterminate time in the future, now apparently in the employ of the mysterious G-Man. Humanity has been sold out to alien forces, and your job is to escape their thrall and lead the resistance to victory.

Product Features
Sequel to the hit first-person shooter
Scientist-with-a-crowbar Gordon Freeman joins a ragtag human resistance fighting extradimensional invaders for the survival of a conquered Earth
Unnervingly realistic graphics the likes of which have not been witnessed outside of a motion picture or pre-rendered cut scene
Realistic physics: objects have varied and appropriate mass, density, physical properties
For 1 player

Customer Reviews
One of the best made FPS that still stands up today By Jeff Johnson (Chicago, IL)
Half Life 2 is the sequel to the highly fun and immersive, first person shooter, Half Life 1 where you are again Gordon Freeman. The graphics are amazing and detailed (on the PC, the X-Box version can look muddy close up). Everything is a vista it looks so good. Textures are detailed, areas are detailed as you travel on your journey. Lighting is beautiful both with dark and flame or bright lights. In fact one enemy has an attack that is a blinding bright light.

Level design is well thought out. Areas are very realistic and cluttered with things you'd really find in any given area. There are trees, junk, wrecked cars, beds, dilapidated walls, broken floors and so on. It really helps the immersion that these areas feel real instead of a typical video game level. This is a very linear game that does have little points of exploration, but you are cleverly guided through things that catch your eye. Like lights in a room are turned on or a character standing under a light and the game will condition you to subtle cues that they mean "go here" or characters will flat out say "run Gordon! Go now I'll hold them off."

The music is good and will show up at the right moments. It's nice. The sound is great and I never hear anything questionable or bad. Voice acting is great too.

The Best PC Game of all time By Christy Obie-barrett
It's incredible and amazing, the story, graphics, characters, physics, gameplay. You name it! And I do not know why so many people complain about Steam, it's really great to me.

Best Game I've every played By Vincent Infante
half life is the best video game i have ever played. from the moment i first played it ive been addicted. i highly recomend this game.

Best PC Game of all time. By Ali S. (Toronto)
if you haven't played this game, now its your chance. buy it now and play. i played all half life game series and all have been very fun and entertaining. Don't listen to these haters, this is the best first person shooter there is.

The beginning of a gaming empire By HDS (Wheelersburg, OH)
Simply great. Works on many older PCs. There are tons of associated titles and mods available. And you cannot seriously plan on playing the HL2 episodes unless you have played this game. The story alone would make a great book or movie. The game is the best and is already a classic!

Simply a great effort By Amateur Astonomer (Upstate New York)
Every aspect of this game was great fun and very enjoyable and if you have a really good graphics card it is a "WoW" experience. Even with a dated graphics card it is good looking and still a blast!

Awesome Game By
Michael Burks (United States)
This game is simply amazing. I love the graphics and the story line, although i found the ending annoying. Ill admit that Steam is a bit annoying at times, but ive never had much trouble with it. And for you people who complain about having to download it using dial-up, stop complaining. Most of you probably waited months for it to come out, whats the problem with waiting another day for it to download.

For those of you complaining about needing expensive high end computers, you dont. I play the game on a 3-4 year old dell dimension 8250 that hasnt been upgraded at all, 512mb ram and a 9700tx graphics card whose driver hasnt been updated since ive had it and i also play half life 2 on a compaq presario sr1900nx with an integrated ati radeon xpress 200. The only reason you would need a high end computer would be to play it with all the graphics options on high. I feel sorry for all you people who give this game less than 4 stars because you complain about needing high end computers and having to download it from steam.

Fantastic By RadDog
I love this game and keep playing it over and over. Super graphics and game play; I enjoyed the boat and buggy once I got used to driving them!