I truly wish I understood what so many people see in Half-Life 2.

I can't tell if this is just my own fatigue with the Source engine, but everything about this game just feels stale and tired. Maybe this is a "you had to be there" thing, where it's impact was more apparent at the time than it is now, but I can still think of a fair number of other FPS games released in the early 2000s (many of them being before HL2's release) that I've had a lot more fun and/or investment in than this one.

Even compared just to Valve's other works - particularly the original Half-Life before it, and the Portal games after it - Half-Life 2 just falls completely flat for me.

Wish I felt differently, but shrug

Reviewed on Jun 05, 2021


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