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 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy Used: $4.13
You Save: $25.86 (86%)
New (3) Used (16) from $4.13
Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 10116
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Game of the Year
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.5
MPN: 9838
Model: 71608
UPC: 014633098389
EAN: 0014633098389
ASIN: B000AOE14M
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Item is used and in acceptable condition. Expedited Shipping and Tracking Available!
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 A very, very disappointed customer. OH WOE TO VALVE! June 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchase this game for 20 dollars, I install it, and to my disappointment, it freezes on the loading screen. I underwent all the basic procedures of updating my video drivers (I have an ATI Radeon Xpress 200), made sure that Direct X was updated to its full capacity, I uninstalled and exited all unneccessary programs that may have interfered with Steam-but yet, I still get no response. once in a while, the game will tempt me by allowing me to get into the Main Menu and even once, letting me play parts of the first level. But NOOO! These brief excursions pose only as false hopes. I've gone through hours now trying to fix the problem.
I am very disappointed. Well, I'm going to go back to playing Minesweeper now. So much for high end gaming.
 5 stars are not enough... May 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Games come out every day. Most, you play them once, you're finished. Usually you don't even finish them. You lose interest before it's even over.
Sometimes however, once every decade or so, a game comes out thats so compelling that you not only finish it once, but replay it a dozen times over, savouring every last moment, and scene, and action. HL2 is one of these.
It's simply stunning. From the beginning where you start off as a very ordinary joe getting off a dull and dingy train at a dull and dingy station it intrigues - who are the brutal east-european type guards who seem to watch your every movement? Why the dejected and down expressions on your fellow travellers? Why the incessant jabbering of the viewscreen whose voice seems to pervade every corner of the place that you can't get away from it? And why is it blathering such insinuating, yet obvious, propaganda? Clearly, something is very wrong in City 17. From then on it's a roller coaster of a frightening ride where you evade the police force (for thats what the guards are) into an increasingly deperate fight for personal survival and ultimately, it turns out, for the entire human race itself. Who are the mysterious overlords known as the Combine? Why do they seem to run Earth and why is there an air of unending gloom and depression that seems to hang over everything and everyone? Why does the human race itself seem doomed to extinction?
Half Life 2 will answer these questions, and present more and ever more complex ones that will bewilder and delight at the same time. There is much to admire here thats not obvious at first glance: the radio crackle of the Combine soldiers: listen to it, it's quite brilliant in it's authenticity and it will give clues to whats really happening not present elsewhere. The budding relationship between the hero and the daughter of one the rebels known as Alyx... ah, lovely Alyx. She comes over as a "real" believable character with her own personality and hidden depths, and emotion too. Has any videogame character been more compelling? Certainly few have been more believable, or believe-inable.
The great glory of HL2 is the set piece battles, the best being the battles with the Striders towards the end of the game. City 17 is reduced to smoking ruins by the end of it, and if you've seen documentaries about the fall of Leningrad or one the great WW2 battles, then you'll get the idea about this. And you'll really feel like you've been there at the fall of Leningrad, sorry, City 17. The Ravenholm section is like a mini-game in itself, and few are more creepy or downright disturbing. Imagine a shudder-inducing horror movie and you'll get the picture. Don't, like I did, play it alone in an empty house, in the wee small hours of a cold, dark winters' night. You'll have trouble sleeping for days.
There are so many jewels in this box it's hard to pick out individual parts but the storming of the Combine HQ, the Coast Road, and the tough Xen wildlife thats taking over the Earth (the fantastic AntLions that at first are a major menace and later become, temporarily at least, your major ally) really give a feeling of despair and at same time, hope for the future. The Combine must be defeated, and you, as Gordon Freeman, are the one to do it. If you like pure, non-stop mindless action a la UT2004 then this is probably not the game for you. If, on the other hand, you like thoughtful, reflective, intelligent and above all, grown-up gameplay that makes you think as much as much it makes you work your trigger finger, then you'll love this. I downloaded all the HalfLife games via Steam and had no problems with it.
Utterly, utterly wonderful. I loved it. My hat goes off to Valve. As good as a first rate action movie, and then some. And it's interactive. Valve, I salute you. 10/10.
 VALVE = CROOKS May 7, 2007
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
Valve has the perfect con going. They charge you forty bucks to buy a game that you can't play UNLESS you use steam to verify that you actually bought it but since STEAM may make your computer crash or freeze your system so you can't actually play the game and since you opened the box you can't return it to the the store and get your money back. INTELLECTUAL COPYRIGHT FASCISM has led to this state of affairs where crooks like VALVE can sell you products that don't work and YOU don't have the right to get your money back. Boycott VALVE and don't ever download games (from any company) so that we don't get to a future where STEAM is the only way to play games at all. That is the future these INTELLECTUAL COPYRIGHT HOLDER FASCISTS are drooling over. Don't give it to them.
Best game ever made. period. May 5, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Half-Life 2 is by far the best game for the PC, and maybe for every other system. It's about half as long as the original, but will still give you a good 17 hours of gameplay. Plus, it never gets dull.
The greatest edition by far is the Gravity Gun. Now you don't need to worry about only using 2 bullets, 1 grenade, etc. because the gravity gun needs no ammo. You can pull things from far away, break doors and use the splinters as flying knives, or throw a propane tank at zombies.
The graphics are also, in one word, amazing. If you can max them out, their breathtaking. If you can't, They still are. That's another advantage, almost any system can play it, no questions asked. I can run everything at medium, with the FPS getting below 10 very rarely, on my old
Toshiba laptop with 256mb of RAM, 64mb video card, 2.6GHz processor. And, any computer with at least DirectX 7.0 can run it.
Now, about steam: I don't really see what the big deal is. You can run it in offline mode, and it works fine for me. But for those that it doesn't, there is a little program called SteamBuster.
Another great thing is what you get in the package. Half-Life 2 alone is worth the 15. But you also get Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life: Source, which separate would be around 30 bucks.
All in all, there is no excuse for not buying this.
Awesome Game... Amazing March 25, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the coolest game for the PC... Awesome Graphics and gameplay... and comes with Counter Strike Source which is basically my brothers life right now... he got no life otherwise.
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