The Orange Box - Half-Life 2: Episode Two
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Half-Life 2: Episode Two
It’s here! The second installment of the HL2 episodes with one more to go at a currently unknown date. Ep2 (Episode Two) continues where Ep1 ended. The Citadel just blew up and all hell broke lose. The Combine are trying to open up some sort of super portal that would make the Seven Hour War happen all over again, only it won’t last seven hours this time. Of course there’s no real rush since this is a linear scripted FPS and so you really have all the time in the world! But as always, the scripted events always immerse the player right into the game and before you know it you’re running your ass off trying to save the Earth. What else? Remember that data that Alyx stole from the Citadel in Ep1? Well the Combine isn’t too happy about that since it contains data that is kinda confidential and for Combine eye’s only. So you’re racing against time and you’re trying to fend off the Combine who are desperately trying to get that data from Alyx’s cold dead body. You start out with no weapons at all ‘cept the gravity gun. I guess that’s because the HL2 episodes are stand-alone games and thus Valve can’t be more than 99,99% sure that the players of Ep2 have already played HL2 and/or HL2: Ep1. What sucks is how they teach you how actually play an FPS all over again. Oh really? I have to jump over that obstacle? You don’t say… Luckily nothing in
Gordon Freeman’s (the main character that you play) life is ever boring or peaceful and quickly the game throws a large number of Ant Lions and zombies in your face before you even have a decent gun. Which is cool because it adds to the tension and the intensity of the initial fights.
You start the game inside of the train you used to escape City 17 in Ep1. You’re quickly taught how to play the game and from there you see how the Citadel starts to create this super portal that is comperable to the portal to hell from Doom 3, only this will be w
ay worse. So you and Alyx advance slowly but surely while fighting zombies and other weak opponents. Once you get to a certain place Alyx is critically injured by a Hunter, a new enemy that will make your (half-)life hell later on in the game. AVortigaun comes to the rescue and what follows is a classic Half-Life moment. The Vortigaun tells you you and him have to get from one place to the other, simple right? All you have to do is walk a few hundred meters and you’re there. Piece of cake! NOT! Because the game inevitably traps you and then you’re screwed and you have to take a small and very dangerous detour. Classic. I won’t spoil anything beyond this point but what follows is an awesome “king of the hill” part where you, two turrets, a few mines and two NPC’s have to fight off waves of Ant Lions. You’ll also get to face a special Ant Guard that you’re not allowed to kill, so instead of using one of the many guns you have already aquired you’ll have to just sprint your ass off dodging the Ant Guard while hiding in small tunnels and stuff like that. Very intense stuff, no kidding.
What’s good about this game? Well, the Half-Life story is continued of course. New enemies, a cool new Strider Mine which is loads of fun to use, a few VERY interesting plot twists and revelations and more. What’s not so good about this game? The usual entrapments that lead to longer roads to get from one point to another, Hunters are a pain in the ass when they come in packs of three and there’s really no way you can play this game the first run without dying because of them, it’s an episode but it’s still too short despite the fact that it took me 1,7 hours longer to complete than Episode One. Conclusion? Get this game, don’t ask questions just get it and play it.
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