Half Life 2
Half Life 2 is the best game i have ever played, almost evething is awesome and there is almost nothing stupid or annoying in it. To me the thing that makes it great is the plot, some games look great and are really good for thier time but the storyline lets it down. But that is not the case with half life. Basically the storyline (not including the first game) is; there is this guy called gordon freeman and he is put into his own future to kill these aliens called the combine who enforce an oppressive government upon the humans. You deal with them by starting a rebellion. Thats what it seems like so far but i havn't finnished the game yet. There are many great plot twists and action scenes and the game never gets boring.
If the storyline sounds stupid then just trust me it isn't, it's just cause you're not playing it. Like the storyline of fight club; a very good film about a guy's imaginary friend who starts a club of guys who wear nothing but pants and beat echother up then cut off some scrotums then blow up some buildings, it's a really good movie but sounds stupid when explained, just like half life.
Anyway, back to Half life, one notable aspect is the shift from scary levels and not scary levels, there is a level near the start of the game called; we don't go to ravenholme, oh man, is it scary. But then there are bits like anticitizen 1 where you just fight soldiers.
The only thing i was dissapointed with was the small armoury available to the player, mainly because there were so many in half life 1 but i guess it makes sense considering the storyline, ie a poor society would have limmited weapons and an army would have a standardised armoury.
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