Halflife 2 review
The game is set 10 years after the Black Mesa incident with Gordon Freeman working for the shady ‘G-Man’ character you made a deal with in the original…
… as well as the G-Man you meet up with a lot of old friends from Black Mesa. There are many new people to meet too like Eli Vance’s daughter, Alyx and her home made robot curiously named ‘dog’.
You meet these characters over a large number of environments you travel through including a harbour, a prison, a dried up ocean, the suburbs, an icebreaker ship and an Eastern European city called City 17. Within these breathtaking landscapes are a mass of 50 different characters to battle and help.
The game has 14 chapters each taking roughly 2-3 hours to complete, which will add up to around some 36 hours worth of playing time. There are no cut scenes in Half-Life 2 meaning you will play every second of the game immersing yourself completely in the story.