Half Life 2 - Game Review

Shoot it, Gordon!

Half Life was so freaking cool. You shot zombies, and combines, and people, and it was great. But Half Life 2 was even better! It was better graphics, had a better story and had new characters. The Game play was like Bio shock, one minute you could be sniping combine soldiers and the next it could have a zombie appear behind you out of nowhere. 

So you're this scientist named Gordon Freeman, on your way to work in Black Messa. You have to go through some police border security thing at the train station. The police are horrible, they throw citizens into their luggage and beat people with no reason. They wear gas masks and have a "stun stick", which they use to beat people. Metro police are annoying, so when you get to shoot them it gets fun.

They also drive Combine APC tanks, which they get aggressive when you get near. It's strange as the further into the game the more harsh they are. They also have gas masks, but run like they're school boys in a jogging session. They also talk murmured, and will chase you for some time if you throw something at them.

Later in the game, you arrive in this place where Barney is undercover as a Metro police combine, and tells Dr.Kleiner your trying to get to his lab. But then you blow his cover and he says to escape from the window. Then he gives you a crowbar. This is where the action begins in it.

You basically beat the crap out of Metro police and some combine's, which is amusing as they fall as if they just passed out. There's also a glitch that rarely happens with Metro police where if you shoot them in the head with your weak pistol, they stand there with their arms out. They don't move unless you get close.

Then they corner you and knock you out, and you hear Alex Vance kill them before they finish you. Getting to the labs is a series of puzzles, such as vending machine doors and other. Kleiner can't find his pet headcrab, a type of Zombie. Barney wont stand for it.

Afterwards and a short time later, theres this hard elevator part where you have to shoot falling objects away from you with the gravity gun, one slip up and you die. This part is hard and becomes annoying when you have to retry about 6 times to do it.

ESRB warnings are intense violence and gore.