Half-Life 2 is Still Fun
Half-Life 2 was supposed to have been released in September of 2003. Hackers broke in and stole the source code, delaying the release until November, 2004. Nearly 3 years later, I am finding myself still loving Half-Life 2′s multiplayer gameplay, physics and yes, even graphics. To elaborate, I’ll mention that a few days ago, I picked up a copy of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which I had been looking forward to, especially after seeing some pretty sweet looking in-game screen shots. I was disappointed. Admittedly, I not using a DirectX 10 graphics card in my PC yet, but I keep asking myself how a big 2007 title can have inferior graphics to the much older Half-Life 2. The only answer I can come up with is it’s just that good. So for now, I’ll continue to frag with the one who brung me until the spectacular graphics of Half-Life 2 Orange Box/Team Fortress 2 and Crysis arrive.
Some Half-Life 2 images – a crowbar salute to Gabe Newell and Valve Software:
October 8th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I love Half-Life2 too, but Team Fortress 2 got my heart. We just setup a server with colocation service from Nationwide Bandwidth 67.90.47.47 and everything is great!
October 16th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
You should give Quake Wars another chance. Turn the resolution up to 1600×1200, and turn all the graphics options on. It is quite impressive. I plan to keep playing my copy. Especially since soon there will be a native Linux client.
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:14 am
I think half-life2 is awesome although I have to agree with Clapper that you should give Quake Wars another chance. Never tried Team Fortress 2 but I’ve heard good things about it.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
[...] The multiplayer aspect adds longevity to a game. There will probably be hundreds of people still deathmatching on Half-Life 2 servers a decade after the popular first person shooter was released. [...]