The game is great, it captures the feeling of Half-Life without really interfering that much with the original concept, the gunplay is astonishing, weapons feel as good as any other Valve-developed fps and the tweaks that have been made to some levels to put them on par with modern day standards aren't at all an hindrance to the experience, well, except for the new Xen. Aesthetically breathtaking but hardly fun to play the new Xen practically functions as an expansion to the base game, just not a really welcomed one. As much as I think the "old" Xen is not on the same level as the rest of the game, I, frankly, found it to be a quite fitting end to the Half-Life storyline, it was aetherial, aestethically different from any other outer space fantasy setting that existed at the time and short, in fact by then the game had already given all its potential so I think that the short duration of the old chapter was a far more fitting conclusion that the mind boggling three hours of asinine puzzles and beautiful yet boring landscapes of Black Mesa's Xen. Aside from the Xen another criticism I want to push is the fact that this game is really really dark compared to the original one, and I mean REALLY DARK, in all of the times I played the OG HL I've never used the torch so much as in this game. Sometimes ,even with maxed out lightness and my room in total darkness, I wasn't able to understand what the hell I was looking at. In conclusion, I think this reimagining of the Black Mesa's events is a great experience that any Half-Life fan can and will appreciate but can hardly replace the original game.