terryprior's reader review of Half-Life 2 for PC

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Half-Life 2

Posted Dec 11, 2005 9:32 am PT

Gameplay: 10
Graphics: 10
Sound: 10
Value: 10
Tilt: 10

Difficulty:: Just Right
Learning Curve:: 30 to 60 Minutes
Time Spent:: 40 to 100 Hours
The Bottom Line:: "Masterpiece"

One of the things that made Half-Life stand out was the narrative technique, not to mention the outstanding voice and work and subtlety coherent journey, that gave the gamer only as much information as they needed to get te nexst part of the game - tricking the gamer into believing they had to escape impending disaster, and then slowly unravelling a hugely enteraining conspiracy. This time around it's not quite so limited with the player often tasked with traversing vast distances, taking in hugely varied terrain and locations as opposed to keeping the player tethered to a base of operations.But while it's true that a relatively small part of Harf-Life 2 takes place within the central core of City 17, the sense of variety and freshness is extremely welcome.Interms of actual story, it's probably even less claer as to why you're there or what you're ultimately supposed to be doing than before. Along the way it takes in familiar themes of escape, rescue,betrayal,revenge and of course redemption.
The puzzles are worth a mention in their own right;Half-Life 2 has, after all got the most impressive physics ever seen in a videogame, and it's not afraid to flaunt them.You can lift,throw and push just about anthing in the game.The puzzles,meanwhile, are less a matter of lateral thinking, and more a matter of remembering that this game world performs like the real world.With twenty hours of gameplay,variety is the spice of life.

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