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This pack will be more interesting then than HL2 itself...that game got quite boring for me after I got to the Citadel...
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=58579
This pack will be more interesting then than HL2 itself...that game got quite boring for me after I got to the Citadel...
yes! the moment i have been waiting for since about december last year
when they say summer release im sure they mean next summer, must of slipped the tongue
this looks exciting, god i hope they dont just release it on steam though - i dont have a credit card
theres also a mod coming out this month or the next to play as a combine soldier.....which would be cool as a frozen freezer
Pete
I think they should make the addon free for those who paid 60 bux for the game. While the game is fun to play and the graphics very nicely done and the character facial animation out of this world, the game is not gripping. I just forced myself to play with the game but there was no satisfaction. I got to the Citadel or the Prison dont remember which and just stopped playing cause it was just so goddamn boring.
Completely agree with you Suryad, I'm currently in the prison myself in the shower area where one of the big creatures attack, then you start down this long corridor and all hell breaks loose, some of the areas are just to long winded and you tend to lose interest in them once there for a while. Bit on the powerboat down the canals was absolutely chronic, I got so sick of it.
Havnt played it in a while now due to this, yeah it looks amazing and the story is good, but the whole drag an area out to make the overall game last longer is a bit poor. I did play Doom 3 through to completion and have started it again, thing with that is it does look the same with more aggressive monsters popping up every so often but it doesnt pretend to be anything but what it is, a straightforward kill or be killed blast, then it drops you into hell and it gets really interesting again !
Dont get me wrong HL2 has had alot of work put into it as the visuals are some of the best ever created. But it feels like they have cashed in on the origionals name by throwing together something that gets boring after a few hours play. With a bit of luck the expansion will be a bit more pacey with good variation on locations that dont feel like they go on forever.
hmm, were you playing on easy?
the game is incredibly easy anyway hard is to me the easy for this game
there are mods starting to surface that place about 3 times that amount of enemies - everywhere in the game, creating a very intense gameplay situation compared with the standard
one i know of is HL2:Substance
give it a go....![]()
i disagree i think that is places it is boring but i loved the airboat missions..if you feel bored by it do a google serach for hl2 sustenace or substance. it is basic hl2 on steriods with more enemies better models.. modified missions ect
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I liked the airboat part...things just kind of slowed down after that. I dont think there is a game that gives me that pumped up feeling every since I started playing the Splinter Cell series and FIA-GTR. The GTR game just fecking rocks!!! The realism and options to set up the car are just astounding.
I can honestly say that my fave game has to be Call of Duty and the expansion pack when it comes to FPS. I decided to play HL2 after what I was saying earlier and just stopped ! Around 3 and a half hours all told, finally got ouut of Nova Prospect and now doing the City 17 runs with the teams of cannon fodder (sorry, mean AI characters !) But reason I have stopped is my back is killing me after playing for so long ands its getting bloody cold in the room ! Also a bit sick of destroying the manhacks, got through the underground radiation bit and got the people through the locked door to be met by another street, think I'm heading towards the Citadel to meet up with Barney, hope I'm nearly there.
my fav bit in city 17 is the rooftop battle with striders, if they made that more call of duty style it would be soooo awesome, it would easily be my favourite gaming scene of all time - everyone shouting 'get to the horse!'
did anyone else notice when walking around city 17 during the up rising the lack of buildings outside those in the immediate viscinity?
personally i think it is just because the community forced valve to release this game before they were ready, it just never got polished.....e.g. when you do that bit with barney heading towards the combine barricades theres only one or two buildings in the sky box, very dissapointing, it just loses the atmosphere.
that and the general easyness of the game let it down, still a great game though
Pete
Think being where I am I'm starting to get nearer the end of the game, decided to get back into last night so I have finished it before the addon comes out ! Bit with the manhacks lasted quite a while and started to become tedious, just when I thought I had done it you have to man the turret while they plant the explosives to clear the way through.
Really hoping that when the addon comes out the sections arnt as long winded, it just seems to go on forever (Return to Castle Wolfenstein seemed the same later in the game I found also)
have to say that some of the weapons are a bit pap too so i hope theymake some new ones for the expansion
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Yes new ones would be nice. I liked the Alien assault rifle that we were able to pick up when those armored bad guys showed up. They eat ammo like crazy but man are those guns cool. Very gratifying putting holes through the bad guys.
i thought the smg was cool also, especially when your fighting in the cities
i which the had left that small version of the mp5 in there, that was cool
Pete
Gravity Gun when it gets taken by the weapons field is pretty cool, once upgraded you can do some serious damage with it, only option you have though as all the other weapons get taken off you and you cant pick any up as when you use the shove / primary fire on it at close range it vaporises anyone that gets in the way ! I liked the alien assault rifle also, only downside is the amount of ammo you can carry for it, 3 clips isnt much at all.
Definately hope they add a few extra weapons in the addon, also wonder which way it will start. At the end of the credits theres a short bit with the head crab thats a pet and all you hear is the scientist calling it then it jumps at you.
Yeah the smg was cool. Had a lot of ammo for it throughout the game. It was a good game overall but very repetitive with the turret fights in the damn prison. I hated it and I stopped playing it. What a waste of 60 bux.
if you dont play as alyx it will be barney and it will be all about the week that alyx and gordan are teleporting is my opinion, when i was playing i heard,Originally Posted by Ferral
'its been a week'
I just thought how clever that was of valve to leave a huge space for an expansion bang in the middle of the game
if it is with alyx my guess is that it will be something of what she was doing before gordan arrived, with all the stuff she got and brought back to elis lab she cant of just been doing nothing can she?
if its with gordan i dont have a clue what they might do......
thanks
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