Half-Life 2: Episode One

Everyone knows it, everyone has played it. A true classic. 10/10

Kinda linear but none-the-less a great game. Part 2 is much better.

Evet

Addictive Game. So many twists and turns. Fallen in love with Alyx. Ridiculous!

Game is unlisted now, and is available for free within Half Life 2.

So im guessing i can post a rare review here now that hl2 episode 1 is binded to Hl2 itself

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The game is a nice change from Half life 2

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(Get trolled if you grinded for achievements)

you won't believe what game this is like

The episode one is a banger i recommend.

There really is no reason to download this after the 25th anniversary, the game's still good, though.

COMON GORDON CRANK THAT THING

good

This game picks up directly after the events of Half-Life 2. You have to get through challenging obstacles in order to escape city 17. Even though it's short, it offers hours of action-packed gameplay. Overall, it's one of the best episodes for Half-Life 2.

So I really really enjoyed Half life 2, probably one of my favourite games ever. I'm currently on the final chapter of half life 2 episode one and in my opinion and from my experience I think the end of chapter 4 and some of chapter 5 is ridiculously painful. Lets start off with the end of chapter 4. The combine gunship fight when you're in that little wooden shed feels tedious and unnecessarily difficult. This is because after a while the whole upstairs area where you get your rocket ammo is demolished, so you end up having to perform very tricky platforming just to able to top up your RPG ammo. Also the roof being demolished means that there is little to no cover meaning you're exposed 90% of the time so therefore obviously the gunship can rip through your health from any given angle at any moment. I just feel like this section of the game heavily relies on the player to hit all their shots with the RPG which as you know isn't easy to do.

When it comes to Exit 17 the section I have an issue with is the train station area with the Strider. This whole sequence is disgusting. The platforming is confusing to say the least and added on to that it doesn't help that the strider shoots you whilst platforming and pierces through your health at an instant. In this sequence the part where you have to climb the ladder and shoot the strider with your RPG is so awful, because just climbing up the ladder the strider can with ease destroy a good chunk of your health and then once you're on your little platform there are walls made up of metal sheets which the strider can genuienly just shoot you through therefore providing zero cover and you get a tiny tiny window to shoot the strider but this window you get isn't enough to at all garantee a successful hit without taking lethal damage.

Other than that I thoroughly enjoyed all other areas of the game and really praise all of the games valve release.

very good just completed it

Got hugged by Alyx 10/10

suddenly I get addicted to this game after playing four of them before this one

They took away one of my achievements when they combined this with the main game. I got it back.

Great game, great story, a classic that needs no introduction

wow you can still access the page

bestest game ever

I feel like a TOOL for buying and 100%-ing it when the Anniversary update wiped out everything, RIP to my one perfect game

hmm...a combine zombie...that's- that's like a, a "zombine" right? heh, zombine, get it?

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Purchased: Sep 10, 2022 BST

Half-Life 2 is fun. So, more Half-Life 2 is more fun, right? Well, disregarding all tedium from the 3 hour runtime would validate that proposition, but something occurred to me having watched the Half-Life 2 documentary recently. There is such a thing as asset/feature fatigue. Shooting the same weapons at the same enemies, interacting with the same physics in the same environments is not as engaging after a while. They throw in some new things like Alyx accompanying you for the whole duration, some fancy new shaders and slightly different levels, but to me it barely scratches the free dlc mark, which thankfully now it has become (although the whole Half-Life series has been laughably cheap on steam for a long time, so this was a non-issue to start). The ending bit of going back and forth on the train station with slightly more Combine spawning in each time turned finale into finally, and left the whole thing on a sour note. While I remember being much more impressed with Episode Two, this really proved to me that nothing less than a full blown sequel would have really done justice to the series as a whole.

amazing

it was really fun to play and very nostalgic too! episode one was shorter but I still enjoyed it.

its aight
beware of the bug where alyx just decides to go braindead and not move or talk at all. no clue why that happens. good job valve.

Where do i read about the things they are talking about. Sometimes they talk as if we know all about it. Game is good but the story makes me feel like i missed a game.

this game is good of yes and yes of the good because is good of the yes yes good yes nice

Some people kinda just gloss over on how good Half life 2 episode 1 is i mean ye its not as hype as ep2 but it still deserves love

Very cool and short.

While I do admit it's the black sheep of the Half-Life 2 saga, its still a fun time and a great way to connect HL2 to Ep2.

There is a bug with this game that is preventing steam overlay from opening in the game

After playing through this for the first time in almost two decades, I feel this one is undoubtedly the worst entry in the Half-Life saga. Valve has proven quite capable in their other entries, so one misstep isn't so bad, but what a misstep it is. In this chapter, you accompany Alyx as you attempt to escape City 17 before the Citadel blows. However, it was poorly executed on all parts.

Alyx Vance goes from a spunky and capable companion to an often times obnoxious and cowardly AI sidekick. Her dialogue is terrible, filled with many gee-golly-gosh moments that add nothing of substance to the gameplay. Often standing in the way and almost mocking Gordon for his efforts to survive become annoying very quickly. Her inexplicable ability to knee zombies so hard in the gut that they double over is funny once as it looks like she's planting a knee in their crotch. But it keeps happening, and despite Gordon's superior armaments, is far more powerful than he is though she can die if overwhelmed.

Half-Life 2 is known for its sudden plot twists, using cleverly timed moments and good writing to put the player in jeopardy in ways that feel organic to the world around you. That concept goes out the window here. In one scenario early in the game, Dog signals to Gordon and Alyx to climb into a decommissioned van so he can throw them across a chasm into a Combine structure. While this moment proves entertaining and consistent with moments that came before, Gordon and Alyx just happened to land on a weak floor panel that hides an all-too-convenient slide that whisks them down to the lower levels. What purpose did it serve? In many areas, you face obnoxious swarms of zombies, often times coming out of areas where enemies were cleared or not there at all and no way for them to hide or get into the room. The game is filled with many more of these kinds of events.

Is it trash? Nah, but it falls way short of the standard set by its predecessor and is vastly overshadowed by Episode 2 in terms of everything. I don't blame them, though, as they had lofty expectations to meet and were probably burnt out from the HL2 development gauntlet. All in all, I can't recommend it as a necessary play through. For completionists and perhaps just to fill in some gaps in the story? Sure. But they will likely walk away with few, if any, memorable moments and may just be happy they're done with it. Or maybe I'm just being too harsh.

Thankfully, Valve hit a home run with virtually everything else, except finishing Gordon's story.

This is the best game i ever played as well as the episodes, i loved everything about it

i can no longer install or view this in my library this after the anniversary update. valve please fix, i payed money for this

well this is just a fine game is not too good and bad

DO NOT GET THIS: Theres not much of a point in getting this seperately from half life 2, considering that in its most recent update, it just added episode 1 and 2, This chapter is great, its just that you might as well buy HL2 and HL2 only.

only took me 3 hours to complete this game, the only confusing part Is the strider on the last chapter, I really like It when I just bought one game called half life 2, I get 2 games. Excellent valve!

oh my gosh this is driving me crazy the way the first one ended left so many questions and this is completing the puzzle love this game

10/10 boring slow pacing. it'd be more interesting to watch paint dry or grass to grow

why yeet the games out of everyone's library...
Even if you merged them, why not keep the standalone? this was an antique sitting in my account

Casual reminder that anyone who says that this doesn't exist anymore is wrong, they just made it so instead of being listed as a game, it was listed as a tool. What this means is that you can not only still install it but you can also still play it. if you want to find the game again search for the game in your library and look in the tools section👍
(same also goes for episode 2 and lost coast)

It starts with one, one thing I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to explain in due time
All I know, time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away
It's so unreal, didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryna hold on, did-didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mockin' me
Actin' like I was part of your property
Rememberin' all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so far
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then, but it all comes back to me in the end
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this, there's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this, there's only one thing you should know
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter

If you own Half-Life 2: Episode 1 or 2 separately, then you can still find them under the tools section of your library!

As of November 15th, 2024, In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2, Episode 1 and 2 have been delisted and are now included with Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 is free to keep until the 18th.

It's honestly too bad episodes one and two don't have their own steam pages anymore. I think the best thing Valve could have done is applied the update to all three games separately instead of combining them all. IDRC that they are all in one bundle now, I think that's the way it should be, so good on Valve for that. I think overall the update really does show the love Valve and the community have for Half-Life 2, but Episodes One and Two have their own legacies to uphold, and mixing them with HL2 doesn't do this. It's like how ID made DOOM I + II and removed DOOM II standalone from Steam. I've seen people complain their achievements are gone but, like... they're all still there, you just need to launch Half-Life 2.