This game is definetly a very good game, but IMHO,
1) The water craft level wasnt long enough, and the buggy level was too long. I have a save where there was a fork in the river, and i took the path to a headcrab infested bungalow, and i must have hit something triangular because next thing i knew i was on TOP of the bungalow. LOL
2) The graphics were incredibly good, the monster design and the Combine Technology design were top notch.
3) The one thing i had a gripe about, was that when you got the shotgun in Ravenholm, look to the right of Yuri Gagarin(thats what i call him
), and it looks like Ravenholm is a box.
4) Dog is a BEAST! THAT THING CAN TAKE DOWN ANYTHING! Anyone who has reached AntiCitizen One knows what I'm talking about.
5) The Gravity Gun was cool and original, and was implemented at every turn( a good thing).
6) This out performs Doom 3 in every way. The level dwsign blows Doom 3's away. Doom 3: The level designers must have had a fetish for quadrilaterals, because you where either in a rectangular room, a square room or a hallway. if you weren't in one of the afore mentioned things, you obviously got there by one. HL2: The level design was open, the draw distance was unbelieveable, (but not a good as Far Cry's). The design for 'Anticitizen One', 'Follow Freeman!', 'Dark Energies', and 'We Don't Go Into Ravenholm...' were open stunning, and Ravenholm was scarier than all of Doom 3 together. On the plus side, HL2 will run full specs on lesser graphics cards, and look better than D3. My bro got a 9600XT for X-Mas, and it goes full specs on HL2. It won't even run Doom 3.