Neither myself or any of my friends have a hope in hell of being able to run Half-Life 2 on our aged machines.

The original Half-Life and its add on pack, where you played one of the Marines, were the last games that I was able to run on my optimised Pentium 120 and I really had to stretch the system to get the best out of it.

I reinstalled Half-Life a few days ago and the fact that it now looks so dated, in terms of the structure and the gameplay is a testimony to how influential it was on the titles that came after it and built on its foundation.

After Half-Life the old Doom / Quake style first person shooters were never going to be quite as satisfying.



Related Links:

Some Half Life 2 Reviews

Half-Life 2’s Real Battle

Half Life 2 Coin-Op