9.2 out of 10

Half-Life 2

 

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  • User Score (208)
    8.9 8.9 from 208 reviewers
  • Expert Score (51)
    8.7 8.7 from 51 reviewers
  • Value for money (4)
    7.0 7.0 from 4 reviewers
  • Gameplay (18)
    9.1 9.1 from 18 reviewers
  • Graphics (18)
    9.3 9.3 from 18 reviewers
  • Sound (21)
    9.3 9.3 from 21 reviewers
  • Lifespan (6)
    7.4 7.4 from 6 reviewers
  • Appearance (2)
    9.7 9.7 from 2 reviewers
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  • Expert Reviews

  1. Xbox World Australia

    9.2/10
    22 December 2005

    Half Life 2, finally here on Xbox, follows the same structure as its predecessor, telling the story through the eyes of Gordon Freeman and never breaking from the action. The result is a 15-20 hour masterpiece that, once finished, will have you turning around and starting right back at the start again! Yes it's not quite as good looking as the PC version, but what you have here is perhaps the greatest FPS that will exist on the Xbox. Read more

    • perfect pacing of game sections, looks fantastic with excellent controls, no Steam, woohoo!, excellent story and immersion
    • no multiplayer at all, not as good graphically as the PC version, a little easy on normal

  2. Empire

    10/10
    10 June 2006

    A year after tearing-up PCs and winning a clutch of ‘game of the year’ awards, Half-Life 2 is finally blasting its way onto the Xbox. But even though Microsoft’s gaming breezeblock shouldn’t be able to handle Valve’s gloomy classic – the PC game required five times the amount of RAM available on the Xbox, don’t you know – the developers have shoehorned just about everything from the original adventure onto a single Xbox disc. Read more

  3. PALGN

    9.0/10
    14 December 2005

    Turning water into wine. Parting the Red Sea. Landing man on the Moon. Michael Schumacher not winning the F1 Championship. Miracles are few and far between in this world, but Valve just pulled one off one of their own by squeezing Half Life 2 onto the 4+ year old Xbox. With everything here exactly how it was on the PC a year ago, it’s now a perfect reason for Xbox owners to sink their teeth into Valve’s latest masterpiece. Read more

  • User Reviews

  1. Empire

    10/10
    Reviewer: grah1956, Empire
    14 July 2006

    i am an older gamer,and i found this a fantastic game,all action,nonstop,very tense,and like a good book you kept turning the page. I don't follow all the technical jargon but lets say i LOVED IT. Read more

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Once again players assume the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist destined to save the Earth from hordes of gruesome alien attackers. Half-Life 2 takes computer games to a new level of realism with incredible in-game graphics that recreate familiar-looking city streets, and blend them with strange and grotesque monsters, resulting in a believable and at times unsettling environment. Objects and characters feature accurate physics properties, behaving with the appropri…

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