Wow you guys are all being pretty kind to Valve..
I didn't actually get to play it but I went over and watched my friend play it for about an hour. I went home, got lunch did some errands, swung back by and he was like, "WTF? I beat it already?" He was pretty dismayed, to say the least.
I'm sorry but FIVE hours (for the first run...) of gameplay? A few new enemies? Granted, the game looked nice but not "I waited 1 1/2 years for this" nice. It's still Half Life 2 after all. And again, FIVE hours???
This "expansion" (which I use the term loosely here) as it stands, should have been five, maybe ten dollars if you download it. What happened with Valves promise that they were going to pass the production savings on to us?
It juse doesn't look like a good gaming value to me. And really, you guys think they are going to ship the next five hour tidbit by X-MAS? Yea, we know Valve is pretty good at getting things out on time
. It'll probably show mid 2007.
I'm pretty sad to say, but I'm not interested in the franchise anymore because of the way they are distributing and parceling the game.