Will leave you wanting
So episode 1. If (likely) you've played Half Life 2, then you will know that Mr Freeman is back with face dude I can't ever remember the name of and we start with Mr Freeman escaping the face man via teleportation, something I'd prefer to call cheating. From there on in, the game consists entirely of narrow corridors and dark places, with low troop variety and puzzle variety. Pretty much, as soon as you solve one task, you've solved them all. The games shortness is a major factor.
Not to say this is a bad game. The action is good, but not hard, the weapons as we can all guess from previous half lives are easy to use and when the characters talk about physics it is still (most of the time) horrifically wrong. The games main object is to tease you into the second chapter I feel, something it does well. But I do ask why do this. Look if you want this game, buy it, for less than £5 due to it's low content, if you want to see half life run through it's last through ever shortening half lives buy it. If you want a new game with flashy eager things, leave this well alone.
Also I've not said anything remotely funny in this. So errr.
Bewbs!