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219 reviews here, by game title · showing 21–40
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Half-Life 2: Episode One review
If one thing really makes Episode One worth playing, it’s the connection to Alyx that starts thin but grows progressively stronger before the game’s three hours are up. In Half-Life 2, she was little more than a forgettable supporting…
Mike Suskie · July 5, 2008
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Half-Life 2: Episode Two review
Nearly every sequence takes you by surprise, and keeps you glued to the screen until the action is resolved. There is a helicopter chase. There is also a genuinely horrifying introduction to the Advisor, the only “true” Combine creature…
Mike Suskie · July 12, 2008
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Half-Life: Blue Shift review
If Blue Shift were merely a simple rehash of everything we saw in Half-Life, I’d be cool with it, since I adored that game and would have loved to see more. But this expansion lacks many of the masterful touches that made Valve’s…
Mike Suskie · June 9, 2008
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Reader PC HG exclusive
Half-Life: Desert Crisis review
Blasting someone out of the sky with an electromagnetic beam rifle; making heads explode with twin Desert Eagles while somersaulting through the air; disintegrating someone's entire torso with an over-sized, electrified sledgehammer…
radicaldreamer · July 16, 2009
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Half-Life: Opposing Force review
My least-favorite segment of Half-Life was the journey through the border world Xen at the end, only because the human factor had been taken out of the equation, and battling the far less intelligent alien grunts got old after a while…
Mike Suskie · June 8, 2008
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Reader PSP HG exclusive
Half-Minute Hero review
Half-Minute Hero is the perfect game for our fast-paced world of high-end releases that you can’t afford to be distracted from for too long. Jason’s review of the game does a great job of covering the details of gameplay and the variety of…
zippdementia · February 17, 2010
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
Half-Minute Hero review
Told in a generational sort of manner that's reminiscent of a more expanded Dragon Quest V, the plot in Half-Minute Hero won't win any awards for narrative originality. It obviously isn't trying to, either. Instead, it has fun rushing…
Jason Venter · January 29, 2010
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Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive
Halloween review
Once the shock wears thin, you'll still have inventive gameplay. However, the act of running from one room to another, saving children, trying to survive, and stabbing Michael Myers becomes a slow and tedious one. There's little in the way…
JoeTheDestroyer · November 10, 2011
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Staff Atari 2600 HG exclusive
Halloween review
When a vengeful (aren't they all?) maniac named Michael Myers escapes from the mental hospital just in time for the holidays, it's a pretty safe bet that pumpkins won't be the only things getting carved up tonight.
Sho · October 31, 2005
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Halloween Forever review
If you've ever wanted to play an 8-bit game where you barf candy corn on zombies, now's your chance!
Joseph Shaffer · June 13, 2018
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Reader Xbox 360 Review of the Week HG exclusive
Halo 3 review
Halo 3 has plenty of amazing moments, but one of my favorites occurred in the game’s first half as I was fighting off Covenant defenses in war-torn Africa in a desperate attempt to destroy that thing our adversaries are digging up, that…
Suskie · January 17, 2008
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Halo 3 review
But if asked to sum up what Halo 3 is without the narrative poise, it’s still an easy answer: it’s just like Halo 2.
Gary Hartley · October 18, 2007
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Halo 3: ODST review
It’s an adventuresome idea, but not one that works completely. ODST is, before anything else, largely competent and achieves most of what it sets out to do. The Halo lore is still very much intact, but the insertion of a new protagonist…
Gary Hartley · August 31, 2010
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Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Halo 3: ODST review
Halo: Combat Evolved was almost a perfect game, until it tanked halfway through when the Flood showed up. For all of the praise the Halo series gets for ultra-intelligent AI, let’s keep in mind that it’s always been lousy AI that brings…
Suskie · January 3, 2010
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Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Halo 4 review
Thankfully, Halo 4's War Games excels with its improvements and tinkering to provide tremendous amounts of replay value. I haven't had this much fun with a Halo multiplayer since vanilla Halo 3, back in 2007.
dementedhut · November 19, 2012
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Halo 4 review
There was a time when every shooter on the market wanted to be Halo. Now they all want to be Call of Duty, and Halo is off in another room doing its own thing, and it's all the better for it.
Mike Suskie · November 18, 2012
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Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Halo 4 review
343 really does a good job of illustrating emotion and feeling between Master Chief and Cortana. I wholeheartedly mean that. A more amateur take on the dynamic between Master Chief and Cortana would lead to their relationship feeling as…
Fiddlesticks · November 11, 2012
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Reader Xbox HG exclusive Feedback welcome
Halo: Combat Evolved review
Paradigm Shift
Follow_Freeman · September 2, 2018
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Reader Xbox HG exclusive
Halo: Combat Evolved review
Halo was the first must-play game on Microsoft's XBox, and to this day is is still seen as one of the best, if not the best game on the system. It is still refered to as the system's "killer app", and a model FPS four years later. You…
Halon · December 29, 2005
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Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Halo: Combat Evolved - Anniversary review
Anniversary is a remake in the visual department only, and the enhancements actually make Halo a worse overall game. You can avoid this by switching over to Classic Mode, but then you might as well just save yourself a healthy chunk of…
Suskie · January 22, 2012
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