Half-Life Episode 2 (Contains spoilers!)

Mapcore: Episode 1

The rap holocaust

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-too much underground "horror movie" stuff-overacting from every npc involved.

-too much of the "COOL" stuff is completely scripted/animated/prebaked and not emergent

-uninspired techno music

-acid spitting antlions looked and played wrong somehow

+ new blood splatter effect boosts fragging enjoyment

+ many physgun/saw blade combos possible

+ hunter enemies were cool and actually fearsome.

+ more power cable puzzles than before ( i like those )

+ citadel background looks great

+ big strider fight was awsome

all in all 7/10 pales in comparison to tf2 = 9/10 and portal 10/10

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what is cool stuff? what is cool.. define the word cool..

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For having an opinion? Pffft..

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For having an opinion? Pffft..

based on youtube vids, pls! Still on the list though

for those of you who are using an nvidia card and are having some fps issues, Download Nvidias new beta drivers.

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# Improved compatibility for Half-Life 2: Episode 2.# Added NVIDIA SLI profiles for Portal, Clive Barker's Jericho, SEGA Rally Revo, NHL 08, and European Street Racing.

# Several game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

the game was am-a-zing..

it was a hell of a ride!

hopes they drop episode 3 soon

But it was ok, not too long.

Perhaps if they would have created like +5 chapters more and it would kicka zz

is it just me or is alyx's voice a lot different in this one (deeper)? not for the better.

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is it just me or is alyx's voice a lot different in this one (deeper)? not for the better.

yeah, I noticed it too when I began play but does it matter?

Actually i like episode 2.. I didn't like only that they created too many underground cave-levels it's on some procedure bad for the eyes.

I felt me irritated after some minutes in the caves.

yes.. it's like that..

k i played through it, it was pretty awesome. i thought the cave part of the game was kind of silly, a little longer than it should have been, it got painfully redundant. everything in the forest was fucking neat though, they did an amazing job on the far away details and it was really immersive. i like that they added more of the team work things where you defended with the turrets or had to take down the striders, they clearly noticed the feedback they got from the original game when you defended the jail. i saw the article on carrying the gnome through the game and decided to do it. i was retarded enough to carry it through the entire game and didnt realize i was retarded until i launched the fucking rocket. i was slapping myself for a long while.

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Follow the plot and you'd know. ZING.Also, G-man spotted on the bridge when you first arrive.

[Blocked Image: http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/4066/gmanjr9.jpg] Only place I saw him, besides the little cut-scene when you're resurrecting Alyx.

what is a g man, he doeznt have a NAME!

ayo, lill review here ta tha people:

+ maps looked good

+ decals, spittin antlions n otha new shit

+ tha game is a climax from the first frontin' cave runs ta crazy ride drives

+ tha mizzle !!! tha caves !!

+ scripted sequencez

+ alyx vance

+ dizzay (dog)

+ tha bunka in white forest

+ tha new ride interest'n in forest

+ tha puzzles

+ alex helps

+ bustin'

+ alex wounded by hunta

+ gascans is tha new weapon fo` gg

+ music is aight, but its bootylicious ta play wit it but it helps

+ combine advisor looked coo`

+ amaz'n skybox wittamaz'n panoramic view

+ big antlions was so haard too kill

- tha new weapon bizzle ball thrown on strider wasnt fun

- too shiznort coz it was shizzort

- too fast sometizzles times from times

- too cramped in some areas

- tha bridge puzzle, waz too eazy (and too hard)

- alyx sounds n whines

- g dawg raps too miznuch ( he raps wit spaces, enterups n sometizzles repeats in his rap overall his grammar is too complicated but G-man is like that)

- g dawg tells too much bout all before it happends

- vortigounts sounds like granpa but they look cool

- no barney calhoun this time

- um.. tha white forest could be brotha friendly before u finally reached tha white forest base

OVERALL SCORE = 9 / 10

I love thizzay game it definitly bringed tha blingin' bizzack of HALF LIFe 2 game!

was really half life 2 on tha same way n i like it

man, couldn't you at least try to sound normal in that review...

why would i wanna read that rap text outside of eot...

and not make tripple posts on en entire page, pleeease - i scroll and scroll and it's still nexus talking - why not one long post with proper language

dear god, will you die already

lol

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man, couldn't you at least try to sound normal in that review...why would i wanna read that rap text outside of eot...

and not make tripple posts on en entire page, pleeease - i scroll and scroll and it's still nexus talking - why not one long post with proper language

QFT

damnit how come very time i post its always at the end of a fucking page. boooooo

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QFT

yeah next time

u da realist nexus...

Still trucking through EP2, it's turning out to be a lot better than I was expecting. Some of the visuals are really well put together (although not that top tier quality). Many of the puzzles and gameplay are also rock solid. Alyx's deeper voice seemed to be there in the beginning and then went away, whew.