To preface I have never played the original Half-Life so this was my first jump into this universe and I was intrigued. I enjoyed the beginning of the game and the end of the game but I found the middle of the game quite boring. It felt like there was a lot of padding with the gunfights and fighting the military was just annoying at times. I kept going though as I was enjoying the story being told but there were points where I genuinely wanted to stop.
To give credit where credit is due the late game like I said is quite good. The traversal through Xen is fun and the puzzles are engaging as well as the new enemies it's just sad that by that point I was sort of just waiting for the game to end as I really didn't enjoy the middle section.

All in all, this was a nice game but I feel it could've used some refining but maybe I just didn't get it. Who knows.