Half-Life 2: Episode One

COMPLETED! Very good game when it wasn’t crashing all over the place. I’m thinking about playing Half-Life 2 through again now, but I might wait for the 360 version and play it there instead.

I got past the big bad that had halted my progress – yay! – but shortly afterwards the game crashed. Again. And I had to rebooted my PC. Bah. Better check when I last updated my graphics drivers. PC problems: always drivers.UNIX problems: always permissions. FACT.

A few more minutes of this during an enforced period of being awake due to the evil that is hayfever. Ugh. I’m going to be dead again in work tomorrow. I hate hayfever so, so, so, so much. I fell asleep okay and then woke just after midnight with… Oh, yeah, the game. It’s good

Well, it now looks about 24% prettier and 72% smoother and the stress test averaged 67.8 frames per second. Somewhat more importantly, it’s still ten minutes of pure gaming goodness. Rather like the demo of the original Half-Life which was a concentrated shot of pure excellence and better than the full game. (Oh, and, yes,