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Background
If you are a veteran of the first Half-Life,
you understand what has happened before and should skip this paragraph.
Early in HL, you are a scientist, Gorden Freeman, working at Black
Mesa, a top secret research facility funded by the goverment. As you
are conducting a test, the experiment goes terribly wrong. You are
transported briefly to another world and back, then find the lab wrecked.
You then find out that creatures from another world have come to your
planet, and are obviously hostile (by the fact that they are attacking
you). Then you just want to get out of there, so you find weapons
and kick some alien ass while wandering around the complex. Just to
complicate things the military shows up, and leave it to them to try
and cover it up by killing all aliens and people inside Black Mesa.
And then you run around killing marines, assasins, helicopters, crab
things, ugly monsters, and a lot more ugly monsters. The game is actualy
very good but im making it sound boring by summing it up. Then you
go to the alien's world, Xen, and fight more monsters and then a boss.
Trust me this is a very good game with a cool storyline, and so many
mods. Now for HL2.
Anything I know about Half-Life 2
There is so much that HL2 contains, and I don't
want to try to type it all so i'll try to be short. Starting off,
HL2's graphics have undergone a a major transformation with the new
Source engine. There now are facial features that actually look real,
and expressions can be used with the faces. The enviroments have also
had been redone, now most objects can be interacted with. For example,
a table can be pushed to block a door and the same goes for any other
objects, crates refridgerators, mattreses, and any objects. The only
thing that you cant do is blow a hole through a wall with a grenade
(it didnt happen in a preview of HL2 I saw). Yet wooden objects can,
you can destroy the supports of something and make it fall on top
of somebody. Also theres this gravity gun of some sort that can pick
up objects and launch them at ememies. I've seen Gorden use the gun
to pick up a sawblade and then launch it at a zombie, thus cutting
it in half. And with the right explosion, you can set the zombies
on fire but they still come after you. Basically, wow... Half-Life
2's graphics blew me away, you have to see it for yourselves. Go to
some websites and download previews, I recommend Gamespot, because
thats where I got my movies of HL2.
Gamespot's
Half-Life 2 videos
