Genre:First Person Shooter
The game
Half Life 2 is a first person shooter, the story line is about a man named Gordon Freeman who worked at Black Mesa Federal Research Facility. He wore a protective suit to protect him from the toxic waste he worked in, something goes wrong and he had to fight his way through aliens. In the end he was given a choice of weather you should go through this portal or follow the G-man, that ends Half Life 1 and Half Life 2 starts you heading through security of a very large city were you can tell immediately that in the city there is a dictator who, if he does not get his way, or you speak out against him you will be killed. At a security checkpoint one of the guards stop you. For some reason you have a feeling that you are against this dictator and that this guard will identify you and stop you. He takes you to a back room and then he identifies himself that he is part of the resistance and he tells you to make you way to a new transportation system so that they can teleport you to the main base for the resistance and as always something goes wrong and you have to go the long way to the base.
The good
The game is fun and keeps you always wanting to play more of it. For the X-box 360 and PS3 you must buy it in something called Orange Box which also contains Team Fortress 2 and Portal. The game has some very good weapons along with objects you can throw with the "gravity gun." A good story line and unique health system.
The bad
There is some cussing and a very scary chapter in the middle of the game called "We don't Go to Ravenholm." It is among the most scary parts of any game I have ever played, even Halo 3's Flood level at High Charity cannot even compare to the shocking and horrific scenes throughout this level. There is something called "head crabs," They look like fleshy oval shapes with four legs and their mouth is on their belly, they jump on there target's head and turns them into walking zombies. After they take control of humans, they eat flesh until they evolve into Black Head Crabs and then they become toxic. Throughout Ravenholm keep the sound down because of all the screams you hear. The level is hard and scary, the rest of the game though is very cool.
Conclusion
Very good game except for that part in the middle at Ravenholm.6/10
