Video Games : Half-Life 2: Episode Pack

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633098709
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: April 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 1383
Studio: Electronic Arts

Features:

Battle new alien foes.
Drive new vehicles through new locations beyond City 17.
Discover more about the award-winning story of Half-Life.
Over 15 hours of award-winning single player gaming.
Battle online with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch – included for no additional charge.

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Product Description:
In Half-Life 2: Episode One, you are Dr. Gordon Freeman and you've returned to face the immediate repercussions of your actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Rejoin Alyx Vance and her robot, Dog, to once again aid the human resistance in your desperate battle against the totalitarian alien menace of the Combine. In Episode Two, you must battle and race against Combine forces as you cross the White Forest to deliver a crucial information packet stolen from the Citadel to an enclave of fellow resistance scientists. As an added bonus, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is also included for online play.

Battle online with Half-Life 2 - Deathmatch

Amazon.com:
An amazing value featuring two new episodes in the award-winning and best-selling Half-Life franchise, the Half-Life 2: Episode Pack offers players both of the new games created by Valve as well as the added bonus of online multiplayer functionality via the included Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Pick up the Half-Life story right where you left off as you journey back to City 17 with Dr. Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance and play your way all the way up to the most current release in the series Half-Life 2: Episode Pack.

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Alyx takes on the locals in Episode One.
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Gravity Gun at work in Episode Two.
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Fight to the end in Deathmatch.
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Half-Life 2: Episode One
This is the first in a series of new adventures created by Valve that extends the Half-Life 2 single player experience. Stepping into the hazard suit of Dr. Gordon Freeman, you face the immediate repercussions of your actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Rejoin Alyx Vance and her robot, Dog, to once again aid the human resistance in their desperate battle against the totalitarian alien menace of the Combine. Episode One exposes Alyx's combat skills and knowledge of City 17 as the player battles side-by-side with her in this 4-6 hour adventure of greater density and detail than non-episodic releases. The intense gameplay delivered in Episode One is made possible only by Source, Valve’s proprietary engine technology, which has been enhanced with new rendering technology and advanced artificial intelligence to deliver new levels of graphics and character interaction.

Half-Life 2: Episode Two
This is the second game in Valve’s trilogy of new releases in the Half-Life adventure. As Dr. Gordon Freeman, you were last seen exiting City 17 with Alyx Vance as the Citadel erupted amidst a storm of unknown proportions. In Episode Two, you must battle and race against Combine forces as you traverse the White Forest to deliver a crucial information packet stolen from the Citadel to an enclave of fellow resistance scientists. Episode Two extends the award-winning Half-Life gameplay with unique weapons, vehicles, and newly-spawned creatures.

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Expand your Half-Life experience as you take your game online in deathmatch and team deathmatch modes.

System Requirements:

	Minimum Specifications:	Recommended Specifications:
OS:	Windows Vista/XP/2000
Processor:	1.7 Ghz Processor	Pentium 4 Processor (3.0 Ghz or better)
RAM:	512 MB RAM	1 GB RAM
Video Card:	DirectX 8 level Graphics card	DirectX 9 level Graphics card
Other:	DVD-ROM Drive/Mouse/Keyboard/Internet Connection

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Half-Life 2 Episode Pack
These are great games and continue from half-life 2 story line. Over all a great series and i cant wait for the next one to come out.

Rating:

- Great addition to HL2
I just haven't encountered anything that can touch HL2, and this only enhances it. Bring on EP3, Valve!

Rating:

- half life 2 episode pack
Good Game, good to excellent graphics. Kind of neat to have some of the same foes as other Half Life Episodes, gives a serial "feel" to the game. Just when you think you have it all under control.... they throw in some newbies in the monster world for added fun !

Rating:

- Keeps me wanting more
I have been a Half Life fan from the start. I just can't wait for the next episode. This episode was a must have for me.

Rating:

- My God! What's your problem?
Well I've been reading lots (and I mean lots) of reviews criticizing valve, their software called steam, and HL2:E2 (half-life 2 episode 2). Now since I have a lot to say I will break up my review into two parts. Here we go!

1.THE GAME:
Personally I thought EP2 is the best HL game so far. You might ask why? Because it has this more awesome, theatrical, exciting feel than its previous games. Don't get me wrong all of them are good (EP1 not counted) in fact I just love HL2 and all of the original series (HL, HL:OP, HL:BS) but it's just that EP2 had a unique feel to it that the previous installments didn't for instance that awesome part of the game where you team up with these two guys at this base in this cave and you all blast the out of the ant lions, we don't want to spoil this or any other amazing moments of this outstanding sequel to an already perfect series but let me add that you will have to prepare for a very unexpected and emotional ending. Now some of you out there are probley now wondering what does this game have that wasn't so good? Well let me see...hmmmm... OH YEAH I remember, well near the end there is this scene in witch you have to fight a large amount of striders. (and we don't mean two to four we mean somewhere around six.) now it's the the way you go about doing this that makes it annoying, I will explain the steps:

1. Drive your car to a point where the striders are.

2. Look for this ball type explodable object.(much like the bombs in the hoth level of LEGO Star wars II)

3. By the time you find this the striders are further down the road of course so you must carry to ball to your car.

4. Place it in the back of the car.

5. Get in your car.

6. Drive down the road.

7. Aim EXACLY for the front of the strider with your gravity gun. No easy task when the strider is moving and you have two or three hunters chasing you(oh did I mention the hunters. Well the hunters are kinda like miniature, fast moving, easier to kill, striders.)

8. And BLAM!! You hit him (witch you probably didn't.)

9. choose a gun for witch to shoot that stupid ball.

10. Shoot the ball two to three times(depending on the gun you chose)

11. Repeat the steps whith the next strider and the next strider and blah
blah blah!(oh yeah did I mention that you have to do this all within a certain amount of time otherwise you will be to late for the VERY scripted ending where we have 3 sets of 3 striders all attack each each of the places you already went to?)

Another downfall of witch I really hate was the "humor" idea. This can be set both ways however as it did have some funny stuff that I do like. (But most of it-NO!) Now there wasn't enough annoying humor to wreck the game because its only when you get near the end (Or near the cool stuff.)that you see this a couple of times.
Overall I have to say that no game is perfect and that these "downfalls" do not hinder the game and I would gladly pay 100 dollars to buy this game. Game rating: 100 stars

2.STEAM:

Now steam has been probably the most criticized software program I have seen and it makes me very sad to see that. Now although steam seams like a nightmare to the average gamer it is only because when we get a game we expect to emedetley just install the game and play it, so the usual gamer like you or me just expects to pop in this disc (HL2:E2), install, play, and tada! Not so we find ourselves confused as we end up having to get some weird software that we don't know what is, make an account, then install the game, and then if that weren't enough we find that we have to download the whole game anyway and the CD has nothing on it. Well naturally you've already made up your mind that steam is the worst software you ever saw and that you won't get this game. That is SO NOT TRUE! Steam ends up as a blessing in disguise. Why? Because it lets you download hundreds of other games from other companys and play em' everywhere you go. Oh yeah steam automatically will update these games that you bought on it so you don't have to go on the web looking for patches they come looking for you! At the time I'm writing this steam is working on an idea that could change pc gaming forever, they plan to make a thing they call the steam cloud it stores all your save games on their server computer that way if you get a new pc you won't have to replay a game just to get to the last level. So like I said steam is really a blessing in disguise.

Well that's all my review is over and I just want to tell you to have fun with this game if you get it as I had many happy hours playing this game.

-I don't tell my name on the internet.


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