I take back what I said. The Orange Box contains a really fun game -- Portal. After spending about 7 hours with HL2, I am thoroughly unimpressed with it as a FPS. It is survival horror which is a niche I'm really bored with -- especially given what Bioshock did with that genre...
After spending a whole lot of time in an airboat -- wondering if it would ever end -- then finally ending only to have a gun put on it and thrown BACK in the Kanal, I pretty much was bored senseless. HL2 is highly overrated and I don't see the big deal. In my opinion, Halo 1, 2, and 3 all beat it hands down. After a while, this game becomes the "department of redundancy department" as it seems like every section of the game is just too contrived and fails at being "clever" as obviously valve intended.
I'm trading it in this afternoon and getting something else.
I hate trolls.
Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
