I recently got the orange box gift from a friend. I played a little of half life (the original game) before but I couldn't stand it because it was on a windows 98 and I could not see anything at all in that game. That experience was marred by frusturation, a bad mouse and a closet full of head crabs. Fast forward to the present and suddenly I'm playing into the night half life 2 with my mouth open just completely blown away with how good this game looks. It's freaking amazing, gameplay, graphics all of it. I recently cleaned my mouse too so for the first time, I'm actually experiencing a shooter where I'm not aimining into the sky and getting shot at my snipers I can't see. Well that's not true, I played some halo 3 but honestly the experience isn't the same. The world that half life 2 exists in... it just breathes. There's even pigeons in this game that fly away when you get too close! The physics as well is amazing especially one neat section where there was a seesaw puzzle that had to be done with cinderblocks For a long time, I've neglected the fps genre and suddenly I've seen what I've been missing. My previous blog stated that I thought dirge of cerebrus was fun. Is it fun? Yes. But this takes everything to a different level. It is not just fun, it is overwhelmingly so.