Username Password. Super Search. Log-in Register. That date, apparently, applies to all platforms, so we won't see a gap between the game's PC and console releases as had been hinted by Valve's marketing director, Doug Lombardi. The game has had a fair number of slips. Valve most recently said the game would "Right in September", but we won't kick up a fuss about it shipping a week and a bit later since the developer was good enough to qualify its statement with an "ish".
Episode 1 ended with Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance fleeing City 17 as it was consumed by a colossal explosion. Episode 2 picks up with our heroes abandoned in the countryside and having to make their way to the White Forest resistance base, where the rebels have secreted a project that could shut off the Combine from Earth altogether and give the human race a chance to rebuild. Along the way they have to brave antlion tunnels and numerous homesteads and outdoor areas where the Combine are on patrol.
To a certain extent, Episode 2 thus suffers from 'middle-of-trilogy' syndrome. That is fine and arguably large chunks of prior Half-Life games consisted of the same set-up. However, this formula travel-set piece-travel-puzzle-set piece is getting a little bit old now and having an entire game based around it makes it especially feel limited, especially with new, hungrier games like BioShock and Crysis innovating like there is no tomorrow.
The game also suffers from the most terminally boring opening to a Half-Life game to date. In a series which has some of the most atmospheric, immersive openings in computer game history, Valve choose to open Episode 2 with Gordon squabbling around in holes in the ground splatting bugs.
That's the criticism out of the way. Onto the good stuff. Once more, for most of the game you team up with Alyx Vance, who is still the most impressive AI-controlled ally character ever seen in a game. System Requirements Windows. Minimum: OS X version Leopard See All. See all. Customer reviews. Overall Reviews:.
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Valve noted once that they would -only- put out HL3 when something extremely disruptive and game changing happened that required a new approach.
With Valve being run like it is, the window long passed on HL3 ever being available at least for now with gaming being what it is. HL2 came along right when PC gaming was changing as a whole, from being brick and mortar to becoming primarily digital. Valve also is not the same as they were 15 years ago. Steam transformed into something entirely different then they first planned and now sits at the top after years of patches and features added and so on.
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