20 Essential Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

6. Half-Life 2

Half life 2
Valve

Set in a dystopian alternative timeline where the human race is being, for want of a better word, harvested, Half-Life 2 picks up where its seminal predecessor left off.

Heralded for its focus on exploration, as well as its inventive approach to AI tactics, Half-Life 2 became of the of the first games to attract perfect scores from a number of different video game publications. Maximum PC even going so far as to label it "the best game ever made".

While the genre has come on leaps and bounds since then, nothing has managed to replicate Half-Life 2's enthralling nature, intelligent dialogue, and engaging story.

 
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