The amount of novel or even fun setpieces in this can be counted with one hand, but something like that is very easy to overlook since you get a handful of fun new guns, like a toy desert eagle (it has soft round edges for a reason) and a hitscan sniper instead of a dull old crossbow. It's almost enough to make up for the fact that the first hour of this two hour expansion pack is mostly comprised of crawling through vents and waiting for doors to open, thank u Cranky Pissford! I can indeed perfectly well understand why this is so beloved while the literal rollercoaster titled "halifetwo episde one" (formerly half-life 2:aftermath) gets labeled as unremarkable, it's cuz they cut the black hole grenade and npc_ministrider (formerly npc_combine_guard), im sure it woulda made all teh difference...in teh world...mistah freeman.-....

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