Half-Life 2 reviews?

[Bube]

I don't know if they are to be trusted on HL2... Weren't PC Gamer the first people to put that "It's Coming" or something ad with a crowbar in the shape of a 2? They were the first to know that it was coming out, apparently they have some ties with Sierra.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid.

And I'm still buying the game.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Bube

I don't know if they are to be trusted on HL2... Weren't PC Gamer the first people to put that "It's Coming" or something ad with a crowbar in the shape of a 2? They were the first to know that it was coming out, apparently they have some ties with Sierra.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid.

And I'm still buying the game.

yea, i always question the first review in general of any game, i want more reviews.

PC gamer was the first ones to review the first half life when it came out. This is why they 'claim' they were the first invited to review the 2nd.

Obviously they have some kind of friendship with each other. But not being one that reads PC gamer, i dont know if they are ones to let that friendship influence thier job to do a fair review or not.

But some how i think most the reivews are going to come out the same way, and this is just a taste of the reviews to come. But i shall indeed be wiating more reviews in the next 25 days.

[Jonbo298]

Check www.hlfallout.com they have other reviews posted that are right within that range. Although one magazine was extremely pissed that it won't have a deathmatch mode right out of the box (User made mods will fix that) and gave it a 90%. They had no other major complaints except that and they dropped it 10% for 1 little thing.

But other then that. Reviews are slowly coming in and are between 96-98% or 9/10 for most reviewiers.

[Jason1]

The best game of all time?

That I highly doubt. But maybe...just maybe it will actually live up to the hype. Very few games with this much hype actually do. If its as good or better than the first, then I'll be completly satisfied. The first was absolutley amazing, probably the best PC game ever IMO, so obviously it has a lot to live up to.

[DarkMaster]

What exactly was so great about the first game? I played a port of it on Ps2, and it was a pretty decent FPS as far as I can remember. I mean, HL2 looks hella awesome, I just don't know how Half Life became such a huge thing, cause I don't really remember anything too amazing from the first game...unless the port was different than the PC game?

[Null]

Originally Posted by DarkMaster

What exactly was so great about the first game? I played a port of it on Ps2, and it was a pretty decent FPS as far as I can remember. I mean, HL2 looks hella awesome, I just don't know how Half Life became such a huge thing, cause I don't really remember anything too amazing from the first game...unless the port was different than the PC game?

you cant play a FPS on a console and expect it to be as good as the PC version. just wont happen.


Part of what makes the PC half life the living legend that it is. is its online play.

to put things into perspective for you....
online multiplayer games for Console will maybe ....maybe, have a couple hundred people playing its most popular online game at once...

the 2nd place PC game, will have 7000 people playing at any given time. (like right now... in 2nd place, is Battlefield 1942 with 7300 people playing at this very moment...

In 1st place is Half life... Right now there are over 66,000 people playing half life online.

the more that play, the more mods they make, which comes up with even more original gameplay for them to play. As far as the single player goes, i've never played...
I'll have to play it to see for myself. which is why im happy it comes with HL1 also.

But the main reason this game gets all the attention is the sheer mass of people that play it online, it has over 100,000 people playing online at once sometimes.. HL2 MAY be the only game that ever has a chance of getting up to thoes numbers. But personally i doubt we'll ever see a game again that gets that number of people playing online.

[Jonbo298]

Also, HL1 has had sooooooooo many mods, that fans can't get away from it. They love the mods and still come back to play the original thing that started it all.