Masterpiece or Madness? - Half Life 2 & Episodes Retrospective & History

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The channel wakes up and smells the ashes thanks to the Patrons! - Use code CROWBAR for 50% off your first month! There are few games that loom as large as Valve's Half Life 2 - a revolutionary first person shooter that rebooted it's genre and laid the groundwork for Steam to take over the world. It's a tale that has been told countless times already - but do we really know the full story? Today we're going to try answer a simple question - Is Half Life 2 the masterpiece it is constantly described as or was it a piece of video game madness? It's a journey that is going to take us through it's absurd development, require us to reassess it's strengths and weaknesses, honestly investigate it's launch and sales numbers - before we unpick it's strange episodic ending and work out why it went away forever... It's part critique, part retrospective, part review and part history lesson - obviously full of spoilers and obviously full of my opinions Credit for the fantastic thumbnail goes to the...