It has been taking the gaming industry 18 years now to make a game this continuously fresh, innovative, cinematic, and freeflowy fun and then heighten the narrative and atmosphere to this level all for a single game since Half Life 2. There have been an amount of games that excel at one or two things and not the other; maybe all of the things that this game does. But to such a polish and perfection? Nah, nothing has come close to Half-Life 2.