Half-Life 2

Platform: PC
Developer: Valve
Completion Time: 14 hours

I have no idea what is going on in these games. I still love them dearly.

Once every few moons I get a strong urge to play through an FPS in just a few sittings. Usually in the Fall, and usually Half-Life and now its silly awesome sequel. I originally purchased this burly mofo back at release and ended up getting into Counter-Strike: Source to an extent that I never finished HL2... My bad. There's not much to say here really, it's pretty, it's fun, it makes no sense(to my feeble mind anyways).

I remember playing for the first time after I installed a few years back, I was chugging along enjoying the action until you get to this little playground with swings, a slide, a seesaw, milk crates, cinder blocks, a baby doll... the works. I must have seriously spent close to an hour playing around with the physics. Finding amusing ways to combine the above ingredients and good old artificial gravity to produce endless entertainment.

Once you get past the neat factor of everything being realistically interactive and dig into the meat of the game, it holds up as a highly immersing sci-fi epic with delicate flavors of Bladerunner, The Matrix, Mad Max, all that good stuff. It has its flaws like any game but they are pretty few and far between, the level of polish on this game is so shiny you can see your reflection.

I can honestly say I would play this game again multiple times, just for the experience, it isn't exactly deeply replayable it just rocks so much you want to see everything again.

Oh yeah, gravity gun.

Highly scientific molecular Kuni rating: 4.5/5