"SELL YOUR GRANDMOTHER, REMORTGAGE THE CAT, DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO. JUST DON'T MISS OUT." SO READS THE FINAL LINE OF PC GAMER'S REVIEW OF HALF-LIFE 2.
ALMOST TWO DECADES SINCE ITS RELEASE, THE GENIUS OF VALVE'S SEQUEL HAS BEEN EXHAUSTIVELY DISCUSSED. BUT THE EXPLOSIVE IMPACT OF ITS DESIGN IS PRESERVED IN THE BREATHLESS WORDS OF ITS REVIEWS.
JIM ROSSIGNOL GAVE IT A SCORE OF 96 IN PC GAMER, CALLING IT "A NEAR PERFECT SEQUEL".
THE LONG-DEFUNCT PCZONE WENT ONE POINT HIGHER, AND SAID "GAMES MAY NEVER BE THIS GOOD AGAIN".
IGN MATCHED ZONE'S SCORE ON A DECIMAL SCALE, AWARDING IT 9.7.
EUROGAMER BROUGHT OUT THE PERFECT 10.
MOST REMARKABLY OF ALL, SO DID EDGE, MAKING HALF-LIFE 2 ONLY THE FIFTH GAME TO RECEIVE THE AWARD, ONE OF JUST 24 "REVOLUTIONARY" GAMES RATED SO TO DATE.
Half-Life 2 was a phenomenon, a game so good one of the few complaints levelled against it was that it didn’t go on forever. “I want to bemoan the fact that it had to end at all,” Rossignol wrote. As time regrettably stopped for Gordon atop City 17’s Citadel, the question on everyone’s lips was, “What’s next?” Surely Valve wouldn’t leave Alyx stranded beside an exploding portal. Surely Gordon wouldn’t remain trapped in the G-Man’s limbo. Valve had followed-up the most celebrated shooter of its day with something even better. Surely it would do it again.
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BITING BACK
The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM
THE INVISIBLE SMOKE FACTORY is back in a Flash
MECH ME OVER
Move over Mario, here's mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
"I like Pillars of Eternity better than Baldur's Gate III"
PILLARS OF ETERNITY deserves a bigger space in the CRPG pantheon
"A harrowing dark fantasy about hapless, bright-eyed children"
Spelunking into hell with MADE IN ABYSS: BINARY STAR FALLING INTO DARKNESS
THE IMMORTAL LOCK
A massive, meaty game in a single horrific Quake map.
NEW MANOEUVRES
Building a dedicated sim racing space in an average family house
OVERWATCH 2
Save me space girl.
REET GOOD TIME
THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE is a riotous recreation of Yorkshire
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE
How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?