Half-life 2 Episode One Download:

This amazing game has sold over 4 million copies worldwide, and earned over 35 Game of the Year Awards. Episode One is the first in a series of games that reveal the aftermath of Half-Life 2 and launch a journey beyond City 17. Also features two multiplayer games. Half-Life 2 not required. It isn’t a new game, nor is it an expansion in the traditional sense. It won’t break the habit of a lifetime by explaining its intricate plot in its first scene, nor will it magic up a new setting for the sake of it, or invent all manner of new power-weapons that the Combine must have forgotten about the first time around. No, for very much better and (as we’ll see later on) a little worse, this is a direct continuation of that game we knew and loved all of 18 months ago.

As far as Valve are concerned, you’re still playing Half-Life 2, and if Gordon Freeman hasn’t been anywhere since his last outing. Half-Life 2

From the warm hug given by Alyx to the clever grounding of Half-Life’s science-fiction sensibilities; from the use of Dog’s metallic form as a television reception booster all the way through to a demonstration of the heart-rending bond between father and daughter… The staging of Episode One is breathtaking. Its opening, its ‘rollercoaster moment‘, its train ride from hell: all among the best that the Half-Life universe has ever had to offer. In our review of Half-Life 2. Anthony Holden said something along the lines that it could well be seen as our chosen medium’s Citizen Kane – but on this evidence, even higher plaudits should be attached. Weekend At Bernie’s perhaps Or even Body Of Evidence.

It’s that good.With Episode One, Valve are fighting the fact that not only was Half-Life 2 released 18 months ago, but also that many of us will have completed it a fair number of times.

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