Honestly, this didn't do much for me. There's a fairly strong middle section that utilises the flashlight for some fun and tense scenarios, but the opening and closing sections are quite dull. Alyx is a fun character, but her survivability feels a little ridiculous. Sure, Gordan shouldn't have got through the original Half-Life, but as the player I've seen that his success was only possible with the loading of MANY quicksaves, and thus the unlikeliness of his success is properly conveyed and justified. Alyx's invincibility renders her a non-factor, and as such it's hard to buy this as a joint adventure.
Due to it's shorter size and less focused level design if we compare it to Half-Life 2, it does end up being a slightly less fun experience if you play it normally, HOWEVER, the best one in the franchise when it comes to completing it, no clue why it's the only one that challenges you with completing the game only using the Gravity gun, but god is it fun to do so, also made me notice how great of an NPC companion Alyx is
Yeah I mean...It's just more Half-Life 2 and nothing more I guess?
It's just a continuation of the story and yeah, it still is fun to play. I just don't understand why they needed to make this one so short, and why not just make a longer part 2 and call it Half-Life 2: Part Two or something...Because these Episode One and Two titles are so fucking confusing I swear to god.
It's just a continuation of the story and yeah, it still is fun to play. I just don't understand why they needed to make this one so short, and why not just make a longer part 2 and call it Half-Life 2: Part Two or something...Because these Episode One and Two titles are so fucking confusing I swear to god.