Half-Life 2

Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.

Half-Life 2 is a fps, action and sci-fi game developed and published by Valve.
Released on November 16th 2004 is available on Windows and Linux in 18 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Swedish and Thai.

It has received 231,289 reviews of which 225,723 were positive and 5,566 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.6 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Half-Life 2 into these genres:

FPS Action Sci-fi Classic Singleplayer Story Rich Shooter First-Person Adventure Dystopian Atmospheric Zombies Silent Protagonist Physics Aliens Great Soundtrack Horror Multiplayer Puzzle Moddable

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7, Vista, XP
Processor: 1.7 Ghz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 8.1 level Graphics Card (requires support for SSE)
Storage: 6500 MB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Good Story The game is unreal for It's Age I'd recommend buying the Valve Complete Pack, so you can continue playing this with the episodes one and two.

Nov. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

Aug. 2024

Easily the best game Valve has ever made. Incredible sci-fi story, problem solving, and level design. The combine enemies are really cool. Needs a movie adaptation eventually. If you're thinking about trying it, do. Goes on sale often enough. Gameplay stands the test of time. The physics and graphics rival modern releases. Thanks Valve.

June 2024

On behalf of the TF2 community, I would like to apologize for the bad actors and trolls negatively review bombing this game. Half-Life 2 is genuinely a masterpiece and doesn’t deserve this, we DO NOT associate ourselves and the FIXTF2 movement with them. With that being said, having actually played Half-Life 2, I feel somewhat obligated to leave a proper review for it. So here: Half-Life 2 is an amazing game that, despite being 20 years old, still holds up above most other modern AAA games to this day. The story is griping, the gun play is immaculate, the environments are awesome, and even the graphics still hold up fairly well. It’s very refreshing in a landscape of modern mediocre FPS games, and I cannot recommend it more. However, with all that being said, I’ve seen a lot of people praise this game to no end, in which some may be slightly biased. So I do have some criticisms: For one, despite aging insanely well, it is still a two decade old game. Some sections don’t hold up as well as others, however the issues are fairly minor and are overshadowed by the rest of the really good parts. Although, the game is very long, and some chapters (*cough*Water Hazard*cough*) do drag on a bit longer than they maybe should. Now, if this sounds like it may be a problem for you, I ask that you STILL PLAY IT. Trust me, once you get past those parts, you will be rewarded with one of the best gaming experiences ever in your life. That’s all I have to say, probably nobody will read this but I wanted to review it anyways. Also Valve pls release Half-Life 3

June 2024

It starts with one thing I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To explain in due time All I know Time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away It's so unreal Didn't look out below Watch the time go right out the window Trying to hold on, didn't even know I wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everything inside And even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me Will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To remind myself how I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I'm surprised it got so Things aren't the way they were before You wouldn't even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me in the end You kept everything inside And even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter

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9.75€

9.6

225,723

5,566

Online players

4,323

Developer

Valve

Publisher

Valve

Release 16 Nov 2004

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