Cheap Half-Life 2: Collector's Edition (Software) (Windows 2000, Windows XP) Price

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Customer Reviews of Half-Life 2: Collector's Edition

Honest Review
I'm very glad that I waited until I purcharsed a top of the line computer to play this game. The visual quality of the environments is marvelous and the game play is very fluid. I have a P4 3.2 Gig, 1 Gig of RAM, X1800 XL graphics card, and a high end monitor w/ a DVI connection. Even with the high end graphics card (w/ all settings on maximum, visual and audio) I still get a few spots in the game where it will lag for a second. However, these spots are few and far between. Also, it only lags when something incredibly amazing happens on the screen and I don't mind if it happens to freeze for a second b/c it's something that's spectacular to look at. <
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>I played this game over a span of 5 nights for about 6 hours per night. I did this on the medium setting so it took about 30 hours of game play to finish the game. Granted, it would have taken a couple less hours if I wasn't admiring all the the graphically brilliant environments. Oh, and I highly recommend you play this game at night w/ all of the lights off. If you have a high end PC and monitor, it's pure gaming enjoyment. I did play HL2-Lost Coast on the Hard setting and that was much more challenging. The enemy can kill you much more quickly and you need to do a good bit more damage to them to get the kill. I plan to play HL2 on the dificult setting sometime next week. Let's see how far I can get w/out dying. ;) <
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>I don't see why everyone is complaining about how the game is "on rails" or that there are a few puzzles to solve in the game. First of all, HL1 was the same way and nobody complained about it then. If you haven't played the game, so what if there's only one way. Just find it and finish the level. As for the puzzles, they don't take much time to solve and don't detract from the game at all. Just think 3 dimensionally on some of them and you'll figure it all out w/ no problem. <
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>So many people have been complaining about STEAM. Get a grip people!!! If you have a DSL connection the "updates" to HL2, Counter-Strike Source, and Lost Coast only take about 30 minutes to download. These updates are there to fix problems in the game so that you have a better gaming experience in the first place. So stop complaining about STEAM and start thanking the fact that it exists. Otherwise, you'd be complaining about all the bugs in the game and wanting patches to fix them. W/ STEAM, all of the pathes download automatically. Additionaly, you can even turn off some of the updates if you aren't interested in playing those games. That way, HL2 will update even faster. Ultimately, if you have waited over a year to play this game anyway...another 30 minutes isn't going to kill you. Just deal w/ it. <
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>In conclusion, if you have a great computer system I highly recommend purchasing this game. It's an awesome gaming experience. The Half-Life saga is the greatest thing in PC gaming history. Also, I hear that even on slower systems the grame runs perfectly well if you turn the graphic settings down. Actually, the game will recommend which settings for you to operate w/ based on your system. <
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>BTW, I've played CS Source and it's definitely not like Condition Zero. I much prefer CZ as it has the older CS feel but has much better graphics. Source is just too odd, it's harder to track your fire and all the people run like hunchbacks. LOL, you'll see if/when you play CS Source.

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be warned after the game the only thing to do may get you banned
a realy nice game very fun and i reccomend this to anyone looking for a good first person shooter <
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>but theres a reason i gave this reveiw 3 stars <
>first you have to run a program (steam) to run this and it has to be running whenever you play a valve game <
>second they have messed up steam several ways and have completely destroyed the modding tools several times <
>third they have made a new program called VAC (valve anti cheat) that they claim never messes up and bans you only when you cheat however this is untrue some people have reported that they have ben banned without useing cheats (includeing my friend) <
>meaning that while they can play games single player almost all servers for multi player are now banned to these people <
>also they will not lift a ban for any reason <
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>other than these problems its a fun game with great graphics fast action a great story and some great puzzles <
>if you dont mind the lack of replay value this should be on any PC gamers wish list

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This game is bad.
Better buy original one. Collector's edition is making bad game worse.