Best shooter Xbox has to offer
posted by Palusko (CLARKS SUMMIT, PA) Apr 12, 2006
Member since Feb 2006
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I played Half Life 1 on PC, and was blown away. I played Half Life 2 on XBox, and was blown away even more. This game is superb in so many aspects, that it can easily be considered the best shooter on Xbox. The graphics are very good and the story line, though rather linear, is a lot of fun to follow. The unique gravity model works well and watching your opponents die and fall is just as much fun as shooting them. The unique gravity gun lets you kill your enemies in many ways or you can even use them as a shield. The NPC people help you fight, follow you or follow some other simple orders. Though they occasionally act rather 'pre-programmed', most of the time they make the game even more fun. The game makes a good use of your environment and missions offer variety of different tasks, vehicles, enemies and surroundings, and often require rather strategical thinking more then just simple 'kill them all' attitude (though there's a plenty of it in the game too). And the shooting and strategical aspects of the game are very well complemented by an interesting story.
I do not believe in perfect game, so I am not giving this game 10 as I believe, that there will be even better games over the time. However, this game at this time is all that a FPS fan can ask for.
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