An Immersive Masterpiece
This is an amazing game. I was amazed by the first hour and completely sucked in from that point on. The start leaves you completely immeresed in city 17 and what's going on. I love the way characters interact with you thoughout the game and they look wonderful with great lip sync. Some problems I had were that it was too short! I finished it in three days not playing it too much each day. But what was there great. Also the AI isnt as great as i had hope it would be. I actually thought the HL 1 AI was better. This only lets it down slightly though. The number of weapons wasn't huge but the game wasn't that long so you didnt really get sick of them. I found that there was a distinct lack of decent long range firepower as most waepons while rocking up close, suck hard at range. The magnum was good at range but lacked ammo and the crossbow was good but was a great weapon.
The best thing about this game is the physics and therefore the GRAVITY GUN which is in my opinion the best gun ever in a FPS! It is so much fun and cool.
Overall.
Graphics - Great, characters and enemies look great and move naturally for the most part and the lip sync is great. The country landscape can be a bit barren but are nice.
Gameplay - Varied and cool. Awesome vehicle sequences and shotouts as well as puzzles to get through. The game is a bit easy (I played on normal difficulty). The AI arent great. But good gameplay overall.
Sound - Was good with great voice acting. The music ranges from spooky to thumping firefight music which is all well done.
Value - Despite being a bit short the game was great and came with counterstrike.
