![]() ![]() I don’t care how many people say it’s a gaming masterpiece. Half Life 2 is a competent, middle-of-the-road, seven-out-of-ten-at-best shooter that for some reason causes game critics to go into a trance and start comparing it to European art films. At least the first Half Life, for all its faults, was truly groundbreaking, something that redefined the genre. Often when we cover old games, we do so from a comfortable perspective of “oh, sure, this game was remarkable at the time, but it hasn’t aged well and doesn’t hold up decades later”, but I don’t think even that’s true of this game. It holds the Guinness World Record for “highest rated shooter.” And yet, for the life of me, I have never understood why everyone has so much love for Half Life 2. The Guardian called it the best game of the decade. Games that are in desperate need of…a Second Opinion. Games that everyone always makes the exact same comments about. Games whose actual qualities have been buried in a narrative, whether good or bad. Games that everyone has an opinion on, regardless of whether they’ve played them or not. This is a series about games EVERYONE has heard of. This is not a series about games you haven’t heard of. Second Opinion Takes On The Most Critically-Acclaimed FPS Of All Time ![]()
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