15 Video Games You'll Play For The Rest Of Your Life

12. Half Life 2

If video games have become a little stale as of late, the FPS genre has to be the worst offender. Honestly, it's getting hard to differentiate between most military shooters; they look identical, and they're all so busy stealing each other's ideas that none of them ever seem to attempt anything remotely original.

For this reason, every now and then, you've just got to go back and play Half Life 2. In terms of varied environments, interesting puzzles, unique enemies and dynamic gunplay, it's just never been topped. To this day, it's still considered one the greatest FPS of all time, and that opinion is very unlikely to change. Well, until Half Life 3 eventually steals its thunder...

 
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Formerly an assistant editor, Richard's interests include detective fiction and Japanese horror movies.