Made me feel like whats the point in wasting money on a game that's worse than HL2 and even takes out features....
Everything in this game is the same as HL2 but they've gotten rid of Vehicles and it's about 1/4 int he length being completed in about 3 hours and being about the same price as HL2 with none of the bonus content. What also gets me is all the levels you play in you've played in HL2 but just in a dfiferent layout and more annoying because now you have Alyx following you. Why would i want to play through City 17 again or even play through the citadel again when i've done it in HL2?
Theres no new weapons or new characters in the game too and no new features or graphical upgrades. The weapons are dated enough but to actually age the game even more by adding no vehicle levels or new types of puzzles is quite weird. Infact the only fun part i found on this game was the opening scene when Dog throws you into the Citadel.
The game adds nothing new to multiplayer or anything to make it worse the money too. Atleast if Episode 2 sucks it'll come in a package with TF2 and Portal which might be abit of fun. The most annoying part of Episode one aswel is the escort level where you have to keep bringing your friendlys to the train station 3 or 4 times while waves of Combine come. It's just not fun and gets old after the first time, specially how Gordon is on the wrong side and playing as combine would be much more fun.
Also why doesn't valve let you play as the combine or any other characters like they did with HL and them expansions called oposing forces and blueshift and one other one i forgot about. That would be sooo much better to do while making HL3 than these stupid episodes which will just confuse people int he end.
What i hate most is they've made me hate one of my fave characters in HL2 and that's Alyx. She was a sexy lovely character in that game but in this one she's more of a annoying voice all the way through it that you'll just be like "oh **** off" lol.
That said though HL2 episode one isn't a bad FPS, it just doesn't live upto HL2 and seems quite pointless buying it if it wasn't for the advancing storyline. After the Orange pack comes out then it will be pointless buying it as it comes with that too.
Please Valve do better with the next episodes or better yet ditch them after episode 3....