I finished Half-Life 2 about a month ago and thought about writing a review. But every time I started the first sentence was “Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter, but I thought it had too much shooting. Also the first-person perspective was over-used.” So I am a uncomfortable writing a review: FPS is not a genre I like and my review might turn into a rant about a genre I don’t like. Not that other reviews turn into rants about genres I *do* like (see: my reviews of FFX and DQ4).

So I’ll just say that Half-Life 2 is the game realisation of every nightmare I’ve had. Except for the one with spiders oh wait they got that too.