Half-Life 2

[Corum]

I am thinking about buying Half-Life 2 for my PC. Maybe Half-Life 2 Game of the Year. People who have the game or have played it, is it worth buying it?

[metamay]

If you like first person shooters then it's worth it.

[xit]

If you want to waste money on a very short box-standard non-innovative (except for the gravity gun which are mercilessly used to the point of annoyance) boring FPS game then yes by all means go buy it. 

[spartan117]

I am thinking about buying Half-Life 2 for my PC. Maybe Half-Life 2 Game of the Year. People who have the game or have played it, is it worth buying it?

ok man i have half life 2 for now 2 years and i have'nt playin it becasue i of steam some retared hacked valve and took all the game files and put it up on da net for ppl to download so then they evented steam and now i can't even play it but the game is awesome if u hvae a good comp

good

1.intsense action
2.interactive world
3.smart a.i
                            bad
1.steam
2.need good comp

[TipMe]

you dont need a incredible comp, its just really annoyin to register.

[DM8954]

Steam has it's good and it's bad. Yeah, it's annoying to register and it feels pretty intrusive that you have to be registered (and logged in for online games) just to play. On the other hand, if you lose your CDs you can just download the entire game back onto your computer. I still have 2-3 games linked to my account, including Half-Life 1, that I can just install any old time I feel like it. It also updates all the games automatically for you. They offer "trial" versions of certain games 'free' so you'll be more likely to buy them later.

Unless you're an avid software pirate, steam is at least 50% a good thing, and it's very good for the makers of steam. They have almost complete control of their game licenses now. If you have a 'cracked' version, they can more easily detect it. If you try to run the same game on 2 different computers at once they can stop you and if/when you finally give up and just buy the games legally they make it fast and easy.

As for the game itself, it's not too bad. Interesting gravity physics an such. I only played the first level using the trial version. Instead of getting the full game, I got a boxed stand alone version of Day of Defeat 2 (based on the HL2 engine). It's almost identical to it's predecessor except with better graphics and physics. Still a blast to play. I highly recomend it. (especially over CounterStrike, the faster, bouncier, less realistic sister of DoD2)

[TipMe]

in the first level, i like hitting carbine with milk cartons

[Captain Rufus]

I liked playing Half life two, purely for the physics. Also using Garrys mod with it is quite fun. beyond the physics theres not much there, unless you LOOOVE pointless killing then try DOD2 or HL2 Deathmatch

[spartan117]

love the physics and the intense action shooting the wall and it rpping to pieces and making holes and dust flying around and throwing grenades and blowing everything up kinda like the intense action in fear

[Manix]

but no slow motion like FEAR… I LOVE the anti-gravity gun, the LAN game play and single player