Half-Life 2 Discussion (Spoilers)

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Well ladies, so many online sites and print mags have pegged this as Game of the Year and its certainly got the Reviews/Scores to backup that claim. Having just completed it less then 10 minutes ago, I gotta say the game was a slight letdown. Here are some brief comments on the game

Theres 1 awesome level right near the end, 'Follow Freeman'. Feels like you are in a huge sci-fi movie. ****ing get to blow massive camera tripods up. So cool. The ending explains the game and what you were doing there. Its just ashame the story that is played out in the actual game (discounting the ending), is a disappointment. The 3 levels where u get to control vehicles, get boring real quick. The others are all excellent. Ravenholm and the afore mentioned Follow Freeman being particular highlights, even though Ravenholm stole a lot of its ideas from Resident Evil :P. I cant wait to see an FPS try to top 'Follow Freeman'. Theres a level right at the end that looks like its been lifted from a certain Xbox game too. ;-)

Overall 9.5 out of 10

Could have been a 10, were it not for the story that is played out in the game. The problem is there is no godamn story played out. Which is why its a disappointment. The actual ending is cool though. Another problem with the game, is that theres barely any variety in the enemies you face. Theres only a certain amount of zombies you can kill before tedium kicks in.

Back to the AWESOME ending. If, from what I understood about it, Gordan Freeman is basically a gun for hire. A mercenary or hitman if you will. ****ing Gordan Freeman, the geekiest looking Hero of any game ever, is a godamn Hired Gun G-Man (the old man from the original, who you see wondering around Black Mesa) hires your services out to the highest bidder. That was a nice payoff to Half-Life 2 and, personally, I cant wait to see where Valve take that particular storyline .

In closing, its more of an evolution rather then revolution of the FPS Genre.

So, theres my brief view on the game. What did YOU think about it?