honestly was pretty fun, and it's on the old engine so accelerated forward bhopping works

The Early game is great. The Graphics are great and hold up today, mostly due to the absolute magic that is the Source Engine. This game feels like the Epitome of early 2000s Culture and I love it -- The Combat is great and dare I say had the potential to be better than Half-life 2 UNTIL.... You hit the late game. You know those enemies that are satisfying to kill with one shot but still provided a decent challenge in numbers? We're going to spam them towards you.. not only that, they're ALONGSIDE these heavier enemies with a big machine gun that erases your health and they take ages to kill, they also get endlessly spammed too. And that's how you ruin the great gameplay of the early game. Genuinely, those MG guys were the WORST THING IN THE GAME and single handedly killed the experience for me. The Early game feels like this masterpiece of cool storytelling and combat, inside beautiful environments. Now I'm just in a slogfest begging this game to be over as I run out of ammunition for my machine gun and another three heavy MG guys run at me to erase my health. Screw the designer who did this.