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Tuna Fish RIot's Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (PC)
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| [January 12, 2007 06:35:21 PM]
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Funny. From my previous post, I had saved my game at this train station where I encountered this huge, mechanical spider thing. I believe it's called a Strider. I resumed my progress a few minutes ago and to my surprise, after going through that part, the game ended.
The game felt very short. I knew people had said that this would be a 3-5 hour game, but I usually take my time and look through every nook and cranny; so I am very surprised to finish it so soon. For $20, I expected it to be longer. The original HL2 was long and double the price. I expected Episode: One to have half as much content as HL2, but that proved to be false.
The final part was a strange way to end the game. Normally, I would expect some kind of boss to appear that takes some sort of clever objective to defeat, but I just found myself running up and down a train yard and killing a strider with my rocket launcher. I've had so many rocket launching battles that it's not all too exciting anymore. Strafe. Rocket. Strafe. Rocket. Strafe. Rocket. Win. That's normally how it goes. As for the ending, or whatever I had just watched, was pretty cool. As usual, it was another "wtf" cliffhanger that SHOULD have led to the death of Gordon and Alyx, but with Episode: 2 coming out soon, that is most unlikely.
Overall, it was a good game. Not many changes in this one and it felt really short. If you were expecting for a glimpse of the G-Man or Lamarr, then you will be disappointed to find out that they didn't quite make an appearance here.
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| [January 12, 2007 02:19:45 PM]
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This is my second session with Half-life 2: Episode One. I played an hour of it awhile back during Winter break and have not gotten back into it until now.
First off, the gameplay is identical to Half-life 2. Everything feels familiar and there really isn't anything new offered. I'm about 2-3 hours into the game and the only difference from the original HL2 so far is that Alyx follows you around most of the time, giving a more co-op flavor to the game. In addition to that, the only new monster I have encountered are the Zombine, a combination of a Combine soldier and a headcrab.
Currently, I'm just trying to escape the city, which I have a feeling will be most of the game. I'm enjoying everything so far, except for some really dark places (difficult to see) and the lack of new levels/maps. I'd love to see more unique levels, such as Xen from HL1.
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| [January 12, 2007 02:19:42 PM]
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This is my second session with Half-life 2: Episode One. I played an hour of it awhile back during Winter break and have not gotten back into it until now.
First off, the gameplay is identical to Half-life 2. Everything feels familiar and there really isn't anything new offered. I'm about 2-3 hours into the game and the only difference from the original HL2 so far is that Alyx follows you around most of the time, giving a more co-op flavor to the game. In addition to that, the only new monster I have encountered are the Zombine, a combination of a Combine soldier and a headcrab.
Currently, I'm just trying to escape the city, which I have a feeling will be most of the game. I'm enjoying everything so far, except for some really dark places (difficult to see) and the lack of new levels/maps. I'd love to see more unique levels, such as Xen from HL1.
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| [January 12, 2007 02:19:21 PM]
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This is my second session with Half-life 2: Episode One. I played an hour of it awhile back during Winter break and have not gotten back into it until now.
First off, the gameplay is identical to Half-life 2. Everything feels familiar and there really isn't anything new offered. I'm about 2-3 hours into the game and the only difference from the original HL2 so far is that Alyx follows you around most of the time, giving a more co-op flavor to the game. In addition to that, the only new monster I have encountered are the Zombine, a combination of a Combine soldier and a headcrab.
Currently, I'm just trying to escape the city, which I have a feeling will be most of the game. I'm enjoying everything so far, except for some really dark places (difficult to see) and the lack of new levels/maps. I'd love to see more unique levels, such as Xen from HL1.
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Tuna Fish RIot's Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (PC)
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Current Status: Finished playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 9 January, 2007
GameLog closed on: Friday 12 January, 2007 |
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