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Jogar esse jogo e prestar atenção em sua história e como ela se desenvolve é muito confuso, porque isso me fez perguntar se os soldados que atacavam o Freeman e os cientistas da Black Mesa estavam fazendo aquilo porque era a missão deles ou se eles só estavam muito confusos mesmo com a situação toda, pois eles também estavam sofrendo ataques dos alienígenas que infestaram o laboratório. Não só os alienígenas, mas como as forças especiais, que tinham aparecido só uma vez no jogo original, nesse spin-off, elas são muito mais frequentes.

Vou deixar isso rápido e claro, a história desse spin-off é interessante mas não é nada muito arrepiante, mas não deixa de ser legal. O que não foi legal mesmo foi a gameplay, que eu honestamente nunca mais vou ter a vontade de re-jogar esse spin-off do quão difícil e chato foi matar alguns aliens fortes e únicos desse spin-off. Honestamente, o que não me fez desistir de zerar isso no mesmo dia é que eu já tinha zerado o Blue Shift antes e ele foi rápido, menos complicado e mais fácil, e eu pensei que esse seria o mesmo.

Pretty fun, I loved dying alot and not beating the game 🥰

I still suck at Half-Life :]

I want to spoon Adrian Shepard.

For a small 3-4 hour long campaign that aims to put a spin on the events in the half-life story, I think this game executes on it's main goals well. I liked the new gimmicks added to this game, and while they weren't really utilized that much (i think there were 3-4 sections where you could climb a rope that I noticed and same deal with the option to use npcs for coop in fights), I found them at least interesting. That said I feel like this game is almost too similar to the plot of HL1 and with a lot of the same jank carrying over from that game to this, I probably wont touch this game again for a long time. That said, it's definitely worth your time, especially if you played and enjoyed HL1. It's more of a fun twist on the story to kill an afternoon or evening than an actual game that I would actively go back to.

Even if very slightly, I'd say I liked this expansion more than the base game.

Some lessons were learned, and the overall pacing of the game felt far better. Admittedly, there is a bad final boss and also this expansion's equivalent of Blast Pit, but there were no levels which felt as annoying as On A Rail or the Xen ones.

The expansion leaning more into the shooter aspect, adding more weapons and enemies, while removing a lot of puzzles in comparison to the base game and Blue Shift is also worth mentioning, and I was a big fan of that.

The story and atmosphere didn't quite feel as gripping than the original, but were well-done, and it was nice to experience this story from another point of view.