Very intricately laid-out action, which is still as awesome as the first game.

User Rating: 8 | Half-Life 2: Episode One PC
By KingLim | Review Date:
The game is great hands down, even if it's short, as the action is pretty neat and well-balanced. I'm impressed with the way it forces you to use the grabber in the first stage to solve puzzles and on the enemies and introduces back the better weapons one at a time though the original game already does that. It's still refreshing since the level design is superbly done so you won't feel the cliche.

Back to the puzzles, it again won my respect as there's still new ways for your grabber to interact with new environment puzzles despite the first game already did so much with this feature. Other than that, you get to fight a little of everything the first game threw at you, and you'll be too engrossed to be amazed at how neatly Valve arranged their order of appearances. My favorite weapon this time is the rocket launcher as at some stages, it lets you utilise its awesome firepower quite heavily.

However, I'm sorry to say that STEAM spoilt my gaming experience by being awkwardly buggy in my pc system. STEAM already screwed my Half Life 1 anthology gameplay but this time, it takes the cake. It crashes my game frequently for whatever reasons, and messed around with my save games. There are serious graphics and sound errors too sometimes. I had ok pc specs, like 2GB ram and p4 3.2ghz, but I think it might be the viruses at work. Anyway, without the bugs, it will be a short, engaging and superb gaming experience.

KingLim

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