Half-Life 2: Episode One (PC)

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.

Too hot to sleep and the PC has headphones, so I can play without worrying about disturbing P’anther sleeping upstairs. It’s great fun, though a little hazy due to tiredness.

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,