{"id":957,"date":"2006-02-18T14:58:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=957"},"modified":"2006-02-25T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T16:10:13","slug":"half-life-2-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life 2, II"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/span>arlier this month, I decided to replay Half-Life 2 (earlier<\/a> and earlier<\/a>): while the gameplay is excellent, I still think 50 dollars for a game with no extra features is a waste, particularly compared to what you get in the PC version. A level-by-level review:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Point insertion: Introduction. Confusing.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Red Letter Day: Part of Introduction.\n<\/li>\n
  3. Route Canal: The fight starts! Finally.\n<\/li>\n
  4. Water Hazard: Boat level. The boat part is sometimes fun and sometimes no fun. It’s fairly straight forward but there are a couple of hidden spots that are generally (easily) overlooked when playing the game the first time.\n<\/li>\n
  5. Black Mesa East: Short. Cut scene.\n<\/li>\n
  6. We don’t go to Ravenholm: Boring but full of unexpecting turns. Couldn’t challenge me really and I always end up with ‘no ammunition’. I blame the XBOX controller for that.\n<\/li>\n
  7. Highway 17: Buggy\/Car level. Fun. I think it’s more fun to ‘scoot’ around than to ‘float’ around.\n<\/li>\n
  8. Sandtraps: Buggy\/Car level. Fun. Except for past the Lighthouse. Jolly jumping around and that.\n<\/li>\n
  9. Nova Prospekt: The jail level is fun at times. Most of part boring.\n<\/li>\n
  10. Entanglement: Endless ‘turret’ fun. Boring, except for close quarters combat.\n<\/li>\n
  11. Anti-citizen One: Fun.\n<\/li>\n
  12. Follow Freeman: Urban warfare fun. Strider level.\n<\/li>\n
  13. Our benefactors: Boring.\n<\/li>\n
  14. Dark Energy: The conclusion. Not really hard to solve.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When doing the first ‘rail trip’ in the Citadel, I noticed that there’s no real reason given why the Combine are ‘collecting people’. Or maybe they aren’t but what’s the point of Freeman being inside the Citadel? So while I think the game was actually a good follow-up, the designers should have skipped the part of adding other Half-Life characters to the game. They don’t fit the storyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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