Half Life 2 - Xbox
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- Amazing new graphics with pre-rendered cutscenes that look like they came from the movies
- More realistic physics - Objects have varied and appropriate mass, density and physical properties
- Incredibly advanced AI as enemies adapt, plan, improvise, and respond
- Hordes of new aliens and other enemies, plus a plethora of new guns and weapons
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Product information
ASIN | B000B2YR74 |
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Release date | June 15, 2006 |
Customer Reviews |
3.8 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #61,905 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #484 in Xbox Games |
Product Dimensions | 5.5 x 7.5 x 0.75 inches; 4.16 ounces |
Type of item | Video Game |
Rated | Mature |
Item model number | 14633151596 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Item Weight | 4.2 ounces |
Manufacturer | Electronic Arts |
Date First Available | October 31, 2006 |
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Half-Life 2 delivers a new level of realistic action and excitement. Players return to the world of Gordon Freeman, as he returns to the Black Mesa research facility. The aliens are pouring into our world, and Freeman becomes part of a resistance group to stop them. New weapons, new enemies and new characters are waiting -- along with major enhancements in animation, artificial intelligence and graphics.
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Customers like the difficulty, fun and quality of the video game software. They mention that it has challenging puzzles and keeps them guessing. They also appreciate the good condition and sound quality. Opinions are mixed on performance.
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Customers find the game fun and awesome. They say it's a clever and original game with memorable situations. They also mention that the game is very linear with little points of exploration. However, customers still appreciate the combination of interesting story, challenging puzzles, and fights.
"...Voice acting is great too.In all the game is a lot of fun, but a lot of it isn't, especially if you're a little clueless as to what the..." Read more
"...Still, you can't beat the combination of interesting story, challenging puzzles, and fight-for-your-life struggle...." Read more
"...A fun adventure, I would buy it again." Read more
"Super fun game but kinda long. I wouldn't recommend to someone who wants to just have a little dinking around. But it's really fun...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the quality of the video game software. They mention that it works well, has good sound, and is in good condition. Some say that the game is great and plays uninterrupted.
"...It's nice. The sound is great and I never hear anything questionable or bad. Voice acting is great too...." Read more
"...very good quality surface4 day game play was uninterruptedVery Good to Good Condition IMO..." Read more
"got this games used from amazon, and its in great shape! has the booklet and the case. all in all its a great deal on one of the best games ever made!" Read more
"Great Game even on Xbox, came on time and as described" Read more
Customers find the video game challenging and fast-paced. They also say the story is interesting and keeps them guessing.
"...There are also puzzles and challenges to breakup the action just like there were with the original game...." Read more
"...Still, you can't beat the combination of interesting story, challenging puzzles, and fight-for-your-life struggle...." Read more
"...The action is very fast-paced and it will always keep you guessing. The only downside is you feel like you have been running the entire game...." Read more
Customers find the voice acting in the video game software great. They also say the characters are lifelike and realistic.
"...Nothing is stiff or forced. Good voice acting, but I feel like the previous game was better and less long winded when their characters talk...." Read more
"...However, the characters are lifelike and the word is very realistic. A fun adventure, I would buy it again." Read more
"...Laws of physics, facial expressions, graphics." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the video game. Some mention that it works just fine, has no issues, and is easy to use. However, others say that it didn't work at all.
"...I'm shocked. The machine guns have real kick to them. The shotgun seems very effective...." Read more
"Unfortunately, this “used - very good condition” was not. It didn’t work at all. Returning." Read more
"...the controls are easy tomuse and it works for the Xbox 360." Read more
"Did not work on xbox360 or xbox one. Who on this planet uses an xbox?" Read more
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Since this is a first person shooter, let's talk about the guns. For starters you have the basic weapons, pistols, machine guns, a shotgun, grenades, rocket launcher (RPG?) and so on. Some weapons have dual uses like the machine gun has a grenade launcher. The weapons feel very good to use. The pistol has never been so much fun to shoot wow! I'm shocked. The machine guns have real kick to them. The shotgun seems very effective. The rocket launcher is laser guided, which is fun to take down helicopters with. Launch it and guide it to the helicopter, because if you shoot it straight, the rocket will get shot down.
Now let's talk about the gravity gun, which is a highly duplicated gun. Personally the gravity gun seems more cumbersome to use it as a weapon. Sure it has its fun moments throwing a saw blade or an explosive canister at enemies, but the aim is imperfect and you need to grab something, turn and shoot it, but it should only be used when you're out of ammo... or if you want to change your style of mayhem.
The combat is rich and fulfilling with certain segments of driving such as a boat or car segment where you still get out and go into buildings to combat things. There are also puzzles and challenges to breakup the action just like there were with the original game. It keeps you thinking, sometimes over thinking. There are puzzles such as using a crane to move your car, using a washing machine to weigh down a platform and taking out a force field by rolling a car (trying not to spoil). There are less puzzles in this game than the last, most of the puzzles seem to involve combat like using the gravity gun as a weapon.
The graphics are amazing and detailed (on the PC, the X-Box version can look muddy close up). Everything is a vista it looks so good. Textures are detailed, areas are detailed as you travel on your journey. Lighting is beautiful both with dark and flame or bright lights. In fact one enemy has an attack that is a blinding bright light.
You really get a sense of distance traveled by this game. You aren't just put in levels that go here and there. This is a lot like a road trip where you span miles over the game. You see map locations and you travel through realistic areas whether they be ghettos, sewers, train yards, the west coast by the ocean in a car, abandon farms and down a river on a boat.
Level design is well thought out. Areas are very realistic and cluttered with things you'd really find in any given area. There are trees, junk, wrecked cars, beds, dilapidated walls, broken floors and so on. It really helps the immersion that these areas feel real instead of a typical video game level. This is a very linear game that does have little points of exploration, but you are cleverly guided through things that catch your eye. Like lights in a room are turned on or a character standing under a light and the game will condition you to subtle cues that they mean "go here" or characters will flat out say "run Gordon! Go now I'll hold them off."
There are several very fun and memorable situations such as climbing under a massive bridge only to have something happen. A graveyard firefight at the side of a priest, a den of giant spiders (head crabs),
The game has several new or altered enemies. Even the old enemies are more difficult and altered. There are new head crabs, the standard and the venomous kind. For humans that have a head crab on them, they are this game's zombies, smart, difficult, dangerous zombies. You can shoot them in the head, slice them in half, sometimes the head crab will hop off, they scream a horrifying muffled wail, but worst of all... if you don't get moving they will rise again in a matter of minutes. There are several terrifying enemies that with the dark and new lighting really disturbs you and sends a dread through you that other games fail to duplicate. The game really manages to terrify you through other ways, such as traveling beneath a giant bridge actually gives you a sense of height that is strangely intense because you fear falling when clearly this is a video game. Maybe that says something about the game's immersion.
Of course there are your run of the mill soldiers, and special ops enemies... but they are intelligent. Several enemies in the game are very intelligent and don't have patterns, but thought processes. Such as if they are injured, they will fall back and get a better position, if they have you pinned down, they will throw in grenades, rush in with guns blazing or bait you into firing at them. They will never line up to be shot; they will fan out so they can all shoot you.
I've mentioned the game's immersion, just like the previous Half Life, characters and friendly people will talk to you with their voices and not in a cut scene. You can walk around as they talk to one another. Nothing is stiff or forced. Good voice acting, but I feel like the previous game was better and less long winded when their characters talk. I know I should be paying attention, but I get more fun when they speak and I'm jumping on their heads. The game makers like to brag about everything being motion captured, but to be honest I never notice that their motions look real, which could be the intention. So good you won't get taken out of the game by a stiff or animated or robotic like in the previous game.
After getting several hours into the game and even playing through Half Life 1 and its expansions, I honestly don't know what's going on. I don't know how Gordon Freeman went from being in a complex fighting invading enemies to being in a city occupied by human soldiers. I feel like I missed a cut scene, and that really takes me out of the game, which they are really trying to keep you from being taken out.
The game also really seems to stroke your ego a lot. You went from being one man who steps up to being the only man who can save them and you're the new messiah. All hail you Gordon Freeman. Stop telling me I'm so great and just tell me what I have to do. It makes me think everyone in the game wants me to help it move...
The music is good and will show up at the right moments. It's nice. The sound is great and I never hear anything questionable or bad. Voice acting is great too.
In all the game is a lot of fun, but a lot of it isn't, especially if you're a little clueless as to what the story is, because the game won't help you with that right away at least. What might be an intense boat segment of the game might be a long annoyance for some people. Sometimes you can over think puzzles that aren't even really puzzles, but you miss a small lock to shoot off something and end up using the newly acquired gravity gun to pile junk to get over things. What could be a fun car segment with stops in between could be seen as an annoyance to have to stop, because the military has ambushed you or set up a force field.
I'm returning this product.
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
I'm returning this product.
very good quality surface
4 day game play was uninterrupted
Very Good to Good Condition IMO
If you have an original XBox or a new one that plays original disks this is a GOOD buy