Review #12: Half-Life 2 (2004 / PC, et al.)

Developer / Publisher: Valve // Status: Very Well-Known // Genre: First-Person Shooter // Players: 1 (also includes mutliplayer mode - not reviewed) // Difficulty: Adjustable at any point in-game // Length: 14 - 18 hours.

Half-Life 2 is the culmination of immersive story-telling, an innovative use of physics and technical achievement in terms of texture detail and facial animation. It is also an enjoyable, serious, sometimes solemn, occasionally humorous adventure through a dystopian land. Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter that is not about shooting: think Deus Ex or Metroid Prime rather than Halo or Call of Duty.

Music was sourced by:

“Odyssey” and “Blipstream” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Additionally, in-game music was used during interludes.

“Hazardous Environments”, “CP Violation”, “Apprehension and Evasion”,“LG Orbifold” were sourced from the Half-Life 2 OST, available on Steam.

I am not the rights holder for the OST music. If either you or someone you know is the rights holder and would like to contact me regarding my choice of music then please do get in touch.

A Video Game Odyssey is also available on SoundCloud, Twitter and YouTube.