2 reviews
Sales Rank: 28407

Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP

UPC: 020626854726
EAN: 0020626854726
ASIN: B0006IA0YM

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Jewel case or software is still shrink wrapped.

Features:

•	Amazing new graphics with pre-rendered cutscenes that look like they came a movie
•	More realistic physics - Objects have varied and appropriate mass, density and physical properties
•	Incredibly advanced AI as enemies adapt, plan, improvise, and respond
•	Hordes of new aliens and other enemies -- plus a plethora of new guns and weapons

Accessories:

•	Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboard
•	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
•	Logitech Z-5500 THX-Certified 505-Watt 5.1 Digital Surround Sound Speaker System
•	Logitech Z-2300 THX-Certified 200-Watt 2.1 Speaker System (Silver)
•	Harman Kardon SoundSticks II 2.1 Plug and Play Multimedia Speaker System

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Half-Life 2 delivers a new level of realistic action and excitement. Players return to the world of Gordon Freeman, as he returns to the Black Mesa research facility. The aliens are pouring into our world, and Freeman becomes part of a resistance group to stop them. New weapons, new enemies and new characters are waiting -- along with major enhancements in animation, artificial intelligence and graphics.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars

The bits that work are great, but... August 6, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a review of the full Half-Life 2 game running on 2.6GHz Pentium with 512Meg RAM and GForce 6200 video card.

The graphics, story-line, and voice acting in this game are all worthy of 5 stars. The gravity gun alone is worth a star. But I can't remember another game that is so unstable. I had to skip an entire chapter because my computer crashed every time it tried to load the chapter. I had to use cheat codes to unlock all the chapters and then start a new game at the next one.

I sent an email to Valve but, no suprise, I got no response. I checked the FAQs but all they suggest is to update the drivers (I already did, duh).

Apart from that, the game keeps crashing unpredictably and there is a huge problem with one of the npcs right now who appears to be wearing a roof around her waist instead of a skirt. Makes it pretty tricky to see around her.

Because of all the stability problems and the loss of an entire chapter I can only give this game a 3 star rating.

4 out of 5 stars

Half-Life and my PC February 15, 2005
1 out of 8 found this review helpful

While the demo was choppy at times, I found the game to be a fun overall game to play. The graphics look good, and I need to up-date my video card. :>) However, since I've played the demo I am now considering going out and buying the game, I gave it four stars instead of five due to it ran a bit choppy at times. But through its choppyness, it still came out to be a good game and the choppyness didn't last very long so it had no real lasting effect on game play. ::CoughDoom3Cough:: My advice: While most people can play the game on a Sh*tway[that is my name for Gateway] from 2001, I reccomend that you people throw the computer out the window and if it still lives, grab a baseball bat and trash whatever is left....then go and buy yourselves a real computer so no one has to deal with choppy parts at times! :>) Peace!