#HALF LIFE 2 LENGTH FULL#

#HALF LIFE 2 LENGTH FULL#

Positive points? Well, itвЂ™s prettier, with full HDR (high dynamic range) graphics if you have the hardware. There are one or two cool set pieces involving AlyxвЂ™s robot pet dog, but none on the epic scale of those in the full-length game, and none of the breather levels to contrast with the action scenes. It isnвЂ™t long before you find yourself experiencing serious gameplay dej vu as one of those annoying Combine gunships appears and you start running around with the rocket launcher that just happened to be lying on the ground, going through that familiar duck-fire-run-reload sequence youвЂ™ll have first experienced in the lighthouse by the coast. First, in an attempt to delay the Citadel from going pop and taking the inhabitants of the city with it, and then in an attempt to escape from it before it actually does pop. For most of the time, youвЂ™re fighting your way back and forth through the same old streets and sewers of City 17. There are no new weapons, no new settings, no new anything apart from a nastier type of zombie.

While a new episode is good from the point of view of continuing the story, it really is just more of the same. Which is to say that a lot happens quite fast and then suddenly itвЂ™s over. Valve itself describes the game as вЂњa four- to six-hour adventure of greater density and detail than non-episodic releasesвЂќ. The reason for the Episode One label is that this is the first of several extension episodes to be released that continue the story. It places you back in the action from the precise moment at which Half-Life 2 left off, and you continue from there on. The best way to describe it is simply as an extension pack. It isnвЂ™t even an episode one in the Star Wars prequel sense you might expect.

It isnвЂ™t really a mission pack and certainly not an entirely new game. Because Episode One is a funny fish all round.

Half life 2 length