HL2:ep2 was a very good game with fast action packed scenes with a cool down period in between. I have to disagree with the article and agree with the rest of the posters on this thread. I'd say that Episode 2 deserves a 7.5 to 8.0 in my opinion. Plus the voice actress for Alyx really produced a good amount of emotion and it made me feel alittle bad that I didn't care much that that person died. In either case, I did agree that the last 2 minutes were weak and somewhat expected but it didn't kill the game for me. Actually it would have been nice if Alyx drove and you just had to shoot.wait they did that in Episode 1 didn't they ? The car sequence could have used some weapons but in the same token, running down bad guys was good enough for me.

Valve really put time into making sure that you could conserve your ammo and use your environment to help you fight then they have in the past.Īlso, with the combination of Portal, they've introduced ALOT of interesting points and questions to be asked about what's going on in the HL2 universe.

Also, while I agree that there one too many lulls in the action, I still welcomed them because the heavy action sections could become tedious on harder difficulties. I was actually happy to not do the usual building/apartment/house affair and found the caves to be a nice unexpected portion of the game. I'm not a critic on level design so I won't get into that. I gotta agree with Linkrift, while i didn't think it was great it was still alot of fun.

Half life 2 episode 2 walk through