Short, but sweet. Bring on Episode 2!

User Rating: 9.3 | Half-Life 2: Episode One PC
By aristonrr | Review Date:
The good: Beautiful use of HDR to improve HL's already great graphics. The gameplay is tight, filled with action, lots of neat ideas and involving until the last second. Other games tend to stretch this content out over 10 hours at least. Alyx is with you most of the way, a real asset in combat and ever-ready with a funny one-liner. Again, the immersiveness in HL's world is astounding.

The bad: Again, the details in the storyline are not explained or highlighted. I get the feeling that Valve has no idea where to take the story, they're making it up as they go along. Playing time is short, but, as stated above, chock-full of great design ideas and taught firefights. New enemies, weapons, aspects of gameplay? Forget it. It's basically a short remix of everything that made HL2 great, minus perhaps the use of vehicles.

The ugly: there is nothing ugly about this game. If every company made games of this quality, we would spend all our free time in front of the computer.

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