Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #28

Played through Half Life 2 and the episodes. Had a mixed experience. They looked great, story was interesting, levels were nice, but the gunplay sucked. Most of the guns were boring to use. I only liked the shotgun, pulse rifle, and crossbow. I did the 'One Free Bullet' achievement for Episode 1 to avoid having to use guns. I did enjoy the gunplay more in Episode 2 though. IDK if it was stockholm syndrome or if they made some changes behind the scenes but it was more fun. I also did the gnome achievement which was suprisingly not as tedious as I expected. I think they designed the game around the achievement, there were a load of spots where you can just leave it and pick it back up later. I only needed to babysit it during the car section.

Now that Half Life is over, I started a replay of Homefront: The Revolution. Picked it up with the dlc for really cheap I few years ago. Remember having a blast with it. It's an above average Far Cry clone. The setting is cool, it's a little cheesey, gunplay is good if a little clunky. I'm having fun with it. Definitely an overhated game. Once I've beaten it, I'll check out the mod that lets you play the Timesplitters 2 remaster that they hid within this game.