Half-Life 2 completed!
At last! I’ve finished Half-Life 2! It was bloody difficult, and I was playing on the easy difficulty level! Dang, I’ve been away from computer games for too long.
Part way through your quest, a chopper starts harrassing you. This bastard chopper from hell is persistent, nasty, and really began annoying me after a few levels. And just to make it even more annoying, none of your weapons are effective against it. So you’ll go along like this, being harrassed by this annoying bastard chopper from hell, until FINALLY–at one checkpoint–a good friend of yours installs a gun on your hovercraft. It’s the same gun that the chopper has. Bingo; GAME ON. From this point onwards, I had one hell of a time giving that chopper a run for it’s life. It takes a while, and it takes a few more checkpoints/levels (because the bastard runs away if you damage it too much), but eventually you reach a large area with lots of boulders where you can stand off against the bastard chopper from hell. The bastard chopper from hell will make bombing runs at you nearly continuously. You’ll take turns running for cover and shooting it as it goes by or circles around for another run. If you can last long enough, and hit it enough times, you’ll eventualy bring it’s annoying bastard ass down. And lemme tell ya, it’s SO sastisfying when you do bring it down. “Oh yeah, baby,” I thought, “I just brought your annoying bastard ass DOWN.”
MMmmmmm… grilled bastard chopper ass…
Anyway… the advanture is huge. At one point the way forward is blocked and you have to take an alternate route: Ravenholm or something. It’s a city like land of the living dead. Just before this point you get the gravity gun, and lemme tell ya, YOU’LL NEED IT. In this city, there are so many evil dead baddies that you’ll run out of ammo before you even meet the insane caretaker priest. He helps you along the way a bit, but he’s still insane for staying in such a place. With the gravity gun, you can pick up object and launch them at the evil stumbling dead–which, by a happy coincidence, all have it in for you. Some of these monsters are very, very nasty. You’ll need the quick save / quick load features. A lot. At least, I did.
You’ll know you’re getting near the end when the evil fortress takes away all your weapons except one; the gravity gun. The evil fortess doesn’t know what it is, and so can’t get rid of it. Also, from this point onwards, the gravity gun is supercharged! It’s a like a gravity gun on steroids. Much fun. You get to toss evil minions around like rag dolls. And the rag doll physics are decent/pretty good.
I’m glad I bought it, I’m glad I played it, and I’m going to play it again. On difficulty level normal next time. Ouch, I can fell the pain already. But it’ll be better next time around because I’m more familiar with it, and I have some idea how large it is. Before, I was running along blindly wondering how much further it would be.
Oh yeah… game on!
