Thats not actually radioactive, but I fully understand why you saw it that way. It's acidic chemicals, caused by years upon years of sewage and poor maintenance. The radioactive clicks are really the only way for valve to tell the player "be careful"

Anyway, Half-Life 2 is a slightly more realistic game.

Grif is right: he was meant to be a blank pallet, for you to fill in the blanks.

As for character development, emotional settings, and mood, valve excells with straight A's. From the start of the game, you meet Gman [if you didn't already]

He tells you [in disjointed speech, meant to signify in-human characteristics] That he needs your services once again [in HL1, he offered you the job]. He explains that "your hour has come again" meaning, it's time for Gordon to save the world from it's apocalyptic state. On the trasin itself, you already hear the civilians complaining about how they got transferred. Again.

The Headcrabs are the Flood of HL2, but they have so much more of a scary mood. I was terrified of Ravenholm when I played it. It was dark, and full of zombies that even ran across rooftops. The Flood level, was a maze of hallways that I was constantly lost in. It was scary in the Flood level, but the getting lost made it boring and frustrating, and I didn't even need to think while killing them. In HL2, you need to be aware of the traps set up by Father Grigori, and go out of your way to bypass them.

The lack of heavy vehicles sets the mood even more. The Combine are an oppressive dictatorship. They have removed our technology and beaten the entire planets military in 7 Hours. All we have are run down, purely utilitarian vehicles. As you go through the game, you'll notice our only weapons are combine ones.

As for levels, they are vastly different. City 17 is a wide, east European style city. Ravenholm is a claustrophobic mining town, that has been run down for years and is full of traps. The Citadel is a monolithic architectural masterpiece, with vaulted ceilings, long metal hallways, and vast shafts leading to the core. All three are vastly different locations, while in Halo, it's either forerunner structures lacking detail and full of long, winding corridors, or ect.

I'm going to compare reviews between the two games. Despite the fact that you can put the Portal gun into HL2 through some work, you'd probably ignore that anyway (You'd be too lazy to figure out how to do it).
Halo 3 HL2 (Using critic scores)
Gamespot: 9.3 9.6
IGN: 9.4 9.6
1up: 10 10

I was going to mention PC Gamer's score, but unfortunately I couldn't find one. Although on Half-Life 2's case there is a quote "The best game ever made." -PC Gamer. You may say "BUT THOSE ARE JUST REVIEWS, THEY VARY AND ARE BASED ON OPINION, THEY DON'T MATTER", yeah, well, you know what else wouldn't matter then? All those fan fictions, fan art, and everything you as the consumer have done. Let's face it, Gamespot gave HL2 a higher score. Gamespot is really strict about video games and they've been doing it for a while. They write three page reviews in detail on all those things daily.

Reviews do not affect my opinion on the games.
I still prefer Halo 3. All of your arguments are irrelevant >_>

However, that doesn't really affect the debate.
I cannot see how you can describe Halo 3's stages as "undetailed".
Were you paying attention when you played it?
In the first level for instance, there are carvings inside some of the caves, even though you're unlikely to look there they bothered to put them in.
And cavemen, but that's an easter egg 0:

You missed out PCZone.

HL2 97

Halo 3 unreviewed/I couldn't find it.

If it's not reviewed there, there would be no point him posting the score >_>

Oh now I see! Yeah, now I know. You're the kind of person who can't be swayed by anything I say and still thinks I'm wrong. So all these debates which have put Halo 3 down into the street drains have not swayed your opinion and you come out and express that you are a fanboy of the series. Good job. You might say I'm a hypocrite, and I am. But that is in the Command and Conquer series. I just like HL2 better than Halo 3 and think it's better because a good deal of it isn't bull♥♥♥♥.

Hey, I still like Half Life 2. It only came behind Halo by a tiny amount.
And Halo still isn't my favorite game.
I much prefer Starcraft and Warcraft III.
And World of Warcraft.
And Super Mario Galaxy.

actually i have, but i haven't finished.
I got the orange box on the 360 about a week after it came out.

i didn't play the origional halflife, and i want a copy.

i havent beaten HL2, as i said, i'm lost in nova prospekt.

and, as for there being white armored combines, thats like having red, blue, gold, silver, etc for the elites,
its still a combine soldier, just in a different colour.

and as for Halflife not being a rip-off of sci-fi movies.
Look at the antlions, look at the bugs from starship troopers. look at those other aliens, look at ET.

and i'm not saying halo ISNT either,
there's a series of books that its directly taken from. the flood, the covanant, humans, the halos, the ark, the forruners, its all from a book series, but the 'halo' is just this mega-weapon that equates to a giant nuke/laser thing. and they dont have the same names, but what they do is the same, even the description of the hunters and how they work.

weather or not it's a ripoff of something else wasnt the point.
Halo has more variety than halflife, especially since they added pureflood.

i will admit, halflife is more origional, but then again, origional isn't always better. the best zombie movies are NOT the origionals, the best sci-fi, isn't the old stuff, its the rip-offs and re-makes. occasionaly you get something thats new and unique and origional, and its awsome, unfortunatly, sometimes awsome ripoffs do better.

I havent decided which is better. so far, halflife has better characters, some better weapons, better engine , and better story, but halflife has more of a variety of enemys/allies, weapons better for other reasons, dual wield, melee without swithching weapons, more types of maps, and vehichles,

there both great for differant reasons, as far as i'm concerned halflife is better as a game, because it kept my intrest better.

they don't mean detail as in graphical detail, nor do they mean anal-retentive attention to make it look perfect.

they meant detail in the setting, detail in the characters and the setting.
they mean that when your in a city, theres newspapers on the ground, there's people in the street. you can talk to every person in game. every object can be interacted with and examined, and there are no plotholes left un-addresed.

how is it that there are people on the first halo, left there, in halo 2, and 3?
how did the arbiter get to earth, BEFORE master chief, who left earlier?
How is it that in H2, the grunts, elites, and hunters left the covanant, but in H3, only the elites left?

they wherent even consistant with the voice acting, they switched 2 of the prophets voice actors after H2 so that the one who was alive is useing the dead one's voice? since when was cortana kept on a chip in his helmet, they added that without changing his suit.

they mean detail to information, not visuals and easter eggs.


i counter this statement. debates dont always work that way. after all, 90% of the debates on this forum NEVER work that way.

also,
Headcrab < flood spore
Poison headcrab > Flood spore
Headcrab zombie < Flood corrupt human
Fast zombie > Flood corrupt elite
Fast zombie > Flood corrupt BRUTE
Fast zombie < those HUGE pureflood that have to be killed in melee
Combine < marines
Combines with machine guns > marines
Combines w/ M Guns < Hunters
Combines w/ the heavier machine gun w/ energy balls > Hunters
Any Combine < Elites
AntLion < those flood with the spikes
AntLion < jackals
AntLion < Brutes
Big Antlion queens > Brutes, Pureflood, those HUGE pureflood.
Everything > Grunts
Everything < Grunt Birthday.
AirBoat < Any vehichle
Buggy < Any vehichle
Driving a bathtub in GMod > any vehichle

Halo 3 : 12
Half Life : 8

thats the unit per unit breakdown for everything i know of halflife.

although if you wanna compair flood infected marines, the antlion is better.

Cortana has been kept in a chip in said helmet since the first game.


Thanks for making it a quadruple post. Also I would like you to meet my friend the edit button!

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!

4 posts in a row. Wow.
And still illegible and worthless. Congratulations.
Please, crawl back into your hole and die.

Quadrouple posts combined and rolled out.

Miles, your stupidity is repulsive.



Hl2 has Gordon, Combine elite, combine, Antlion guards, Dropships, Striders, Fast headcrabs, headcrabs, headcrab zombies, fast zombies, antlions, you know, a wide variety of enemies.

Halo has... aliens with different weapons. grunts..... and oh wait there isn't anything else. wow... lame...



and, as for there being different types of covenant, that's like having white, dark blue, blue, etc for the combine.



Half life doesn't have dual wield you idiot. But half life does have all the rest, and character development. Thanks for admitting defeat.



Oh my god. The stupidity here is almost funny.


i counter this statement. debates do work this way.

also,
Headcrab >>>>> flood spore
Poison headcrab >>>>>>> Flood spore
fast headcrab >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything in halo
Headcrab zombie < Flood corrupt human
Fast zombie > Flood corrupt elite
Fast zombie > Flood corrupt BRUTE
Fast zombie >>>>>> those HUGE pureflood that have to be killed in melee
Combine >>>>>>>>>>>> marines
Combines with machine guns > marines
Combines w/ M Guns > Hunters
Combines w/ the heavier machine gun w/ energy balls > Hunters
Any Combine >>>>>>>> Elites
AntLion >>>>> those flood with the spikes
AntLion >>> jackals
AntLion >>>>> Brutes
Big Antlion guards >>>>>>>>>> Brutes, Pureflood, those HUGE pureflood.
Everything > Grunts
Everything > Grunt Birthday.
AirBoat >>>>>>>>> Any vehichle
Buggy >>>>>>>>>> Any vehichle
Driving a bathtub in GMod >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any vehichle

Halo 3 : 0
Half Life : 99999999999

half life 2 winz lol luk at da scor

altho if u wana compar diks hl2 is longar

They didn't, In H2, there were Heretics, which are the ones that believes the Great Journey is false prophecy, It was only a few elites and grunts, but in H3, all of the Elites and Grunts left the covenant, while the hunters and the jackals are the ones that didn't left.

Hey Ezarky, you counted wrong.
You actually appear to have given one point to Halo 3.