Half-Life 2: Collector's Edition
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Half-Life 2 Collector's Edition delivers a new level of realistic action and excitement. Players return to the world of Gordon Freeman, as he returns to the Black Mesa research facility. The aliens are pouring into our world, and Freeman becomes part of a resistance group to stop them. New weapons, new enemies and new characters are waiting -- along with major enhancements in animation, artificial intelligence and graphics. Product details and pricing info |
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71 Customer Reviews Posted
- The True Deal to Collector's Edition.
- I noticed a similar reviewer shared the same opinions that I have.
THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION JUST SIMPLY BELONGS IN THE GARBAGE CAN.
You get:
1. A beat up, but a bigger and uselss Half-Life2 "collector's edition" box... which just blows.
2. The game(DVD)... no manuals, no big jewel case, just plane damn CD with the CD-key printed ON THE FREAKIN CASE!! A 4 year old can just snatch the plastic seal on the box and write down the CD-key in less than a minute. I have NO idea why Valve did this.
3. A XL T-shirt... and only in XL size.. Not to mention and ugly "FRUIT OF THE LOOM" tag.. No sign of genuinity, shrinks when washed, fades when washed, has an intial cost of probably.. oh say 5 bucks.
4. A Prima "mini-booklet" which features EXCERPTS of the official Prima Half-Life2 Concept Art booklet and the Prima Strategy Guide. NOTE: THESE ARE EXCERPTS AND NOT THE WHOLE BOOKLETS YOU SEE ON THE SHELVES. Plus, the mini-booklet is extremely small and offers nothing but advertisement.
5. NO SYSTEMS MANUAL. NOTHING. The products I have mentioned above are the only thigns you'll get with the "collector's edition". I am abosolutely cluelss on WHY there are no manuals (at the minimum), and why the price is EXTREMELY high. Valve's claim on the box of "world's most anticipated game" has some degree of credibility.. but I think Valve has gone too far to rip consumer's off with this one. The gameplay is mediocre at best, and nothing revolutionary.. despite reviews on how great the physics engine is... yada yada. If you really want some physic boggling fun, go grab and X-Box and play Dead or Alive 3 with computer animated woman breasts that would sway in any pleasing manner you wish.
6. You do get the full Half-Life2 game with a Half-Life1 remake with the new HL2:Source engine.. But who wants to re-play HL1 with... couple barrels you can roll down. You also get Counter-Strike:Source which is the official HL2 multiplayer mod... but all these features you can download with any typical HL2 package(except bronze). Well... on the plus side you do get more mods availible for play later.. one of the more anticipating mods is Day Of Defeat:Source which comes second to popularity behind Counter-Strike, and this mod should be worth the wait.
7. Pretty much it... I don't see the regular packages going on sale but the collector's edition you can pretty much find it at $49.99 now(virtually any computer electronics store). The regular edition I think goes around at $39.99. If you want to be an extreme geek and sports the HL2 T-shirt(which they gave away free at E3 anyway), then dish out the extra $10 to show your respects to the shirt. If not, if you are a typical CS1.6 player like I, then just get the regular CD or go for the silver HL2 package online where you get HL2 and CS:S. Oh.. and there are plenty of bugs offline AND ONLINE with this game. Valve is extremely fond of pumping out new updates every second, so in some cases you'll be stuck with jammed updating lines and also faults as a result of the update.
BOTTOM LINE: AVOID THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION AT ALL COSTS. - 2005-03-12, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Get the regular version
- HL2 is a great game and I wanted to surprise my boyfriend with a great gift....but the collector's edition was a complete disappointment. The box is made up of cheap cardboard compared to the regular edition which actually looks nice and the T-shirt looks like it's been bought from the dollar store. I am honestly sorry I paid so much for a low quality product. For anyone who is interested in buying the collector's edition my advice is: get the regular version because you won't win anything by paying double for this one.
- 2005-02-27, 7 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Bad Gameplay?
- i bought this because i beat the first few.And What are you talking about!?this game is the best of them yet!the first Half-Life got me mixed up in planet Xen so this is very diffrent.even though ravenholm freaked me out...its still the best one yet
- 2005-02-25, 2 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- WOW
- Good god, Sierra and Valve have done it again! This game is totally off the wall...I must say, the regular version of HL2 is better than the collecters cause you can get the downloads and its cheaper, but hey! I still love it! I would definetly say you should get it. Now here is one thing...if you have 256 MB DDR Ram you might run into problems...It has a habit of closing the game and making you cold-boot your computer after like 3 hours...I have had that problem but, WHO CARES! I still play on and have the time of my life! Plus CS:Source is top notch! The downside with HL2 and the Sources is that you constantly need to update, so if your like me and have a 56k modem, it'll take a while but is worth every minute! If you have a 512 MB Ram or lower, I have to tell you something...DON'T Multitask! It will mess up your game! I hope you enjoy the game as much as I do!
- 2005-01-31, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- FIRST DISCONNECT INTERNET THEN INSTALL!
- I live in Brazil and here new software is pretty expensive, so most people turn to pirated software. Well, I read all these reviews about how people had serious problems with Half Life 2, so I decided to buy a pirated copy. So I went to the street vendor on the corner and picked one up for 3 dollars. I had absolutely ZERO problems installing the game, and it had ZERO glitches. And, it came with specific instructions. But here iss the interesting thing; it told me to first disconnect my PC from the internet, THEN install the game. Hmmm...to all of you having problems installing it, try installing it, without being connected to the internet. Anyway, I did all of this without registering or having a CD Key too. You see, my guess is that when you are off the internet and install the game, Steam doesn't see what your doing. Then when you turn on the internet again with Half-Life 2 installed, Steam doesn't notice that it's there.
- 2005-01-26, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
