Ok, the online reviews are out! We have new screenshots and more info about how HL2 is going to rock! The game is less than 12 hours away!! Are you excited yet?!
If you are not excited the below should stir you up!
Below are Review overviews, links, quotes, and Gameshot links! Feel free to add to the hype with your own links and sharing what you are looking forward to!
HL2 Review Summary and Links
EDGE (UK) 10/10
Gamestar (US) 5/5
PC Gamer (US) 98%
PC Games (HU) 98%
IGN (PC) 9.7
PC Zone (UK) 97%
SCORE (CZ) 97%
Homelanfed 97%
PC Games (DE) 96%
PC Jeux (FR) 96%
PC Gamer (UK) ) 96%
PC Format (UK/SL) 96%
HYPER (AU) 95%
PC Action (DE) 94%
SPT (DE) 93.5%
GameSpot 92%
PC Gameplay (NL) 90%
GMC (IT) 9/10
IGN 9.7
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IGN "I wanted to make this review short and sweet, but it's hard to stop writing, even when excluding facts that could potentially contaminate an exceptionally well thought-out gaming experience. There's just so much to say. Half-Life 2 is, simply put, the best single-player shooter ever released for the PC. It does so many things right in so many ways that it might be possible to write a thesis on the topic of Half-Life 2 compared to other single player shooters. What Valve has created is simply a masterpiece -- a work of art in the genre. Not only does it engage the mind with mysterious happenings, vagaries, and mostly intelligent dialogue, but also captures the senses with a superb visual style made possible by brilliant technology. And once the initial shock of it all wears off and it becomes possible to peel back the polished layers of sight and sound, there is an excellent shooter here. Half-Life 2 doesn't do anything particularly new; it doesn't really innovate in many ways. But what it does is set a new height for all other designers of first-person shooters to reach. It still isn't exactly perfect, but it's about as close as I've seen in my tenure here."
GS and IGN are talking about this being the nicest looking game yet (even better than D3 overall). HL2 is the way NEW DX9 games should look! These are all ingame (HL2 does not have cut scenes, everything is from your point of view):
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If you are not excited yet, you do not have a pulse!
Feel free to add more quotes you like from reviews and links to picks you really liked!
If you are not excited the below should stir you up!
Below are Review overviews, links, quotes, and Gameshot links! Feel free to add to the hype with your own links and sharing what you are looking forward to!HL2 Review Summary and Links
EDGE (UK) 10/10
Gamestar (US) 5/5
PC Gamer (US) 98%
PC Games (HU) 98%
IGN (PC) 9.7
PC Zone (UK) 97%
SCORE (CZ) 97%
Homelanfed 97%
PC Games (DE) 96%
PC Jeux (FR) 96%
PC Gamer (UK) ) 96%
PC Format (UK/SL) 96%
HYPER (AU) 95%
PC Action (DE) 94%
SPT (DE) 93.5%
GameSpot 92%
PC Gameplay (NL) 90%
GMC (IT) 9/10
IGN 9.7
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HomeLan Fed 9.7
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GameSpot.com 9.2
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IGN "I wanted to make this review short and sweet, but it's hard to stop writing, even when excluding facts that could potentially contaminate an exceptionally well thought-out gaming experience. There's just so much to say. Half-Life 2 is, simply put, the best single-player shooter ever released for the PC. It does so many things right in so many ways that it might be possible to write a thesis on the topic of Half-Life 2 compared to other single player shooters. What Valve has created is simply a masterpiece -- a work of art in the genre. Not only does it engage the mind with mysterious happenings, vagaries, and mostly intelligent dialogue, but also captures the senses with a superb visual style made possible by brilliant technology. And once the initial shock of it all wears off and it becomes possible to peel back the polished layers of sight and sound, there is an excellent shooter here. Half-Life 2 doesn't do anything particularly new; it doesn't really innovate in many ways. But what it does is set a new height for all other designers of first-person shooters to reach. It still isn't exactly perfect, but it's about as close as I've seen in my tenure here."
GS and IGN are talking about this being the nicest looking game yet (even better than D3 overall). HL2 is the way NEW DX9 games should look! These are all ingame (HL2 does not have cut scenes, everything is from your point of view):
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If you are not excited yet, you do not have a pulse!
Feel free to add more quotes you like from reviews and links to picks you really liked!
