Abstract: At some point when someone was designing a real time strategy game, they asked the question, “I wonder what it would be like from the perspective of the infantry soldier I just built”. The Empires mod for Half-Life 2 answers this question in the way si...
The good news is the game plays exactly like other levels in HL2—both from a technical and a practical perspective. The bad news is that there’s not much new here. The plot developments can be summarized in about three sentences and there aren’t any n...
Excellent detailed graphics+ Performs very well without crashes or other issues+ Still one of the best FPS games ever made+ Long single player game
Very, very linear- Weapon system is a one-trick pony- Limited material modeling- Vehicle sections are lousy and artificially stretched- Very limited environmental interaction- Did I mention it was linear? How you would like to subscribe to Gear Diar
Depending on your perspective, Half-Life 2 is either the most epic and ambitious title Valve has ever done, or the most bloated and unfocused. But even with its missteps, there’s a reason why Half-Life 2 appears on virtually every “best games of all t...
Depending on your perspective, Half-Life 2 is either the most epic and ambitious title Valve has ever done, or the most bloated and unfocused. But even with its missteps, there’s a reason why Half-Life 2 appears on virtually every “best games of all ti...
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Published: 2010-07-19, Author: Karl , review by: macworld.co.uk
Completely and totally awesome
A bit long in the tooth
If you're new to the Half-Life franchise, you're in for a treat. If you've played it on other platforms, now you can harness the power of a high-end Mac to revisit some of the best set pieces conceived in game history. And all for about a fiver. Our recom...
Published: 2010-06-17, Author: Chris , review by: macworld.co.uk
Advances the FPS genre significantly, ambitious gaming in scale and breath, excellent atmospherics.
Some long load times between maps, frames per second could be faster, slight detail loss with certain animations.
Depending on your perspective, Half-Life 2 is either the most epic and ambitious title Valve has ever done, or the most bloated and unfocused. But even with its missteps, there's a reason why Half-Life 2 appears on virtually every “best games of all time”...
Abstract: Half-Life 2 puts you in the boots of Doctor Gordon Freeman, a survivor of an incident at the Black Mesa Research Facility, chronicled in the original game, in which an experiment opened a gateway to another world, allowing alien life forms to spill thr...
