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Half-Life 2: Episode One is the first in a new trilogy of episodes that are scheduled to be released over the course of the next year. The first episode fills in a lot of the story gaps that you may have found with Half-Life 2 and at the same time ...read a full review

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Based on a group of people I know that bought this expansion and the fact they all said "It sucked" I'm not interested. No thanks. Funny you mention gfx and stuff are 5/5 yet everyone that I know that played it said, gfx were no better except the addition of fake HDR which is way overused. You mention the mouthes moving and stuff and how good they were, well how was it any different that how it was in the original HL2? Seems more you were stretching on this review to give it a +80 mark.. Again, another expansion sold off as 5-6 hours of play when in reality it's just a little more than 2.5 hours... like Sin.

Here's my guess, HX is an avid HL2 gamer and as such that's why he was so gracious with his scores. Right or wrong? This isn't a flame, this is a 'realists' view of a mediocre and uninspiring and lackluster storylined Expansion.

Check all over the web, the views from people are 'this expansion is BS and doesn't answer anything and instead is an excuse for Valve to throw more questions in to sucker more kids to buy the followup expansions'.

Oh can you feel the hate in here? It's not hate, it's common sense and rationale behind a crock of an excuse to put out an expansion. Does this expansion add to HL2 in any way? No..just another cheap excuse to sucker fans into buying it..

Again, I'm waiting for Sin MP patch and that's ALL I care about in terms of Source... oh wait, and that Might and Magic..I don't think Sin is 'all', but in terms of a playable, not cheat infested, bunny hop loser DM world that is HL2DM(which has a more and more vanishing community daily).

Valve can soak the HL2 BS as much as they want, but as far as creativity and imagination, you have to look elsewhere. Valve is so imaginative and creative they bought up the 2 mods that honestly made valve what they are today. If it weren't for CS and DOD, HL2 would have never seen the day of light.

[Craftos]

I agrre it's mediocre and not worth this price. I've rushed to buy it not waiting for any reviews and now I regret that.
No new graphics, except HDR (adding not much, really) nothing new more than 18 months old HL2, sound is ok.
Gameplay - well, with Alyx as sidekick it could be furn but because sh is practically indestructible (I an throw an exploding barrell at her, surrounded with zombies and only she stnds still after that) - it isn't so fun.
No new weapons, just one or 2 new enemies. No any vehicles. You get practically nothing new info about the story. Well - it doesnt' push the story a single bit.
Overall - quite short. Levels seems more like rejects from main game. The only fun part were: dark areas with zombies and escort mission.
I don't get why it took 18 months (!!!) to make this. Talented amateur modders would do it better and larger.
And this completely cheapest trick with "solving" Alyx and Gordon surviving explosion at the end of HL2. Sorry this "solution" is absolute mediocreness .

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[KingArthur]

I'm a Half-Life fanboy I just can't bring my self to hate any of those games

to tell you the truth it seems EXACTLY like HL2 it seems exactly like an expansion pack with nothing new to offer, however I liked HL2 and there for I liked the expansion, I didn't go into it with high expectations or expecting anything new and boy did they deliver

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[Ozieo]

The more I enjoyed HL2, the less I enjoyed this crap addon.

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[Ainstain Junior]

Stop the episodes right now and go for a new full half life game.Before its to late..LOL