| Barozi said: It's a pioneer of several elements of FPS (just like the first Half-Life). storytelling, graphics, length, physics and physic based puzzles and NPC interaction. You should definitely play Episode 1 (relation between Alex and you) and even more so Episode 2, which is much closer to the newer standards. |
I've played both of the episodes. I'm referring to Half-Life 2 and it's expansions as one game. I do agree that Episode 2 is better and it contains one of the 'wow' moments (minor spoiler: Alyx getting stabbed and beaten by a Hunter. It was just so cool and unexpected.). The biggest praise I can give to the game is that it has some amazing characters (namely Alyx), but certianly no one that compares with, say, GLaDOS.
One of my biggest problems with the game is that it just drops you into the middle of the story with no explaination of what's going on. That would've been fine if other characters would've reacted accordingly, but they didn't. At the beginning of the game people are like, 'Whoa, Gordon Freeman is back.' but no one thinks to ask where he's been for the last twenty years or care to explain what has happened since he's been gone. It was quite frustrating.
