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.

Oh. An annoying boss fight. Great. That’s enough of that, then.

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,