I can't stand Half life 2. I'm sorry but the combat AI which is all that matters in a SHOOTER is completely non existent. They aren't tactically aware like Halo, they don't even bother to be elusive like FEAR. THey just stand there and shoot back with poor accuracy unless they are a sniper in which case they don't miss. The team AI is sad, they stand when a combine soldier threw a grenade at them.
The Graphics engine and PHysics engine are impressive, nothing to brag about. The visual assests were a joke, compare the difficulty of photoshoping the color onto the flat walls of half life to the millions of trees in farcry or the complex monsters of DOOM 3. The visuals were no better than any comparable FPS. The Physics were great, and i won't take that away from it, it made the game and really the gravity gun was unbelievable.
But thats the one bright spot for me. Everything else about the game, including gun sound effects, and feel of weapons, to the fighting, to the repeated puzzles from HL1 and the gimmicky mess of minigames were all drawn out way too long...
Boy thats a lot of bashing for a game i would give 9/10 for but the fact is, I consider it absolutely overated due to the PC fan boy support for it. Best game ever? Not even close. In fact, even though everyone loves to Bash halo, i wouldn't ever rank Half-life 2 to be as good as the Original Halo. (Halo 2 is a different story). The original Halo was truely revolutionary to the FPS genre, for its open landscape fighting and combat AI to brough tactical game play to fast paced action shooters. It changed the FPS genre. I won't go into further detail though cause i'm sick of writing.
Half-Life 2: Episodes Two and Three confirmed
Aug 10th 2006 3:43PM (Joystiq)The Graphics engine and PHysics engine are impressive, nothing to brag about. The visual assests were a joke, compare the difficulty of photoshoping the color onto the flat walls of half life to the millions of trees in farcry or the complex monsters of DOOM 3. The visuals were no better than any comparable FPS. The Physics were great, and i won't take that away from it, it made the game and really the gravity gun was unbelievable.
But thats the one bright spot for me. Everything else about the game, including gun sound effects, and feel of weapons, to the fighting, to the repeated puzzles from HL1 and the gimmicky mess of minigames were all drawn out way too long...
Boy thats a lot of bashing for a game i would give 9/10 for but the fact is, I consider it absolutely overated due to the PC fan boy support for it. Best game ever? Not even close. In fact, even though everyone loves to Bash halo, i wouldn't ever rank Half-life 2 to be as good as the Original Halo. (Halo 2 is a different story). The original Halo was truely revolutionary to the FPS genre, for its open landscape fighting and combat AI to brough tactical game play to fast paced action shooters. It changed the FPS genre. I won't go into further detail though cause i'm sick of writing.
Anyways, HL2 is great but completely overrated.