There's too much to say about this game. Growing up I was a Halo player and I was very against CoD for some reason. I had a friend bring this to my house one time and I bought it the next day. Little did I know this game would start years of memories that I will never forget.

This was the game I would rush home from school to play. It wasn't even because I was good; I just had a blast with friends in random lobbies trying to mess with people.

My friends and I would follow Vanoss Gaming and KYRSp33dy religiously, so whenever they would do something new we would jump right on the train. We did everything from ninja defuses, hiding tactics, Michael Meyers, and make him clutch it. That's not even mentioning the amount of Zombies we played either.

I have no idea how many hours I have in this game, but I made lifelong friends through this game and it will always feel like home.

My history with this game goes way back to 2014 or so when I was working at the activity center at the local YMCA. My job was to supervise kids playing video games, but they gave me a computer, and this game was available in browser, so what are you gonna do?

This is probably the game I've played the most in my life because it's just so fun, and it's super short. I proved earlier this year that I still have the muscle memory to do Veni Vidi Vici fairly flawlessly. Needless to say, this game will probably pop up again on my list when I'm feeling bored.

This is another case where giving this and Half-Life 1 both 5 stars feels weird. I liked this one better because of the expansion on the narrative, but I really liked the older feel of the first game. I'm very excited for the DLC, and I'm now joining the waiting list for the 3rd game. These games are very unique in the sense that they're not open world, and it's just constant objective. You could easily pick up this series and play it from start to finish, and if you look at my game history for this year, I damn well have.

Going back to this, the controls are just awful. However, I have a lot of great memories from this game. I think this was the game that developed my fascination with the grappling hook mechanic. I would take this to the local YMCA and we would play deathmatch split screen after school for hours.

This was also the first game I realized that my brother gave me an unplugged controller to play. I distinctly remember us playing the campaign together, but it wasn't until much later when I was older that I found out the campaign is single player.