This game rocks. Superb graphics, great storyline, good gameplay.

Bought it today. I feel like a very bad boy at the moment, I've spent £130.00 in the last month or so on games Doom3; Rome: Total War; Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and now Half Life 2. Still, it's winter, I ain't going out much, and as far as I'm concerned, all those are 'must-haves'.

I really do think I'm going to have to get a better video card though. My ATI 9800 Pro is struggling with Doom 3 and HL2 at 1068 x 764. I mean, they're both working fine, but very occasionally, I'll get a stutter.

An Nvidia 6800GT is winking at me somewhere.

Anyways, if you're thinking about buying HL2 - do so, it's quite superb

It also has just about the longest installation time I've ever known, you have to activate it online, and it takes quite a while. It also auto-updates/patches when you do this. I also loaded on the Steam Engine and there's Counter Strike: Source included, but I haven't tried this yet.

Well, with those four games, should keep me busy until the snow's melted next year

Do you have any screen shots of it? I'm one for eye-candy

flops if your thinking about selling your 9800pro, let me know.

I'm waiting for my new 6800 before i rush out screaming like a little girl to buy it, i can't wait!

You saw me run out the front door and down to the local GAME store today, didn't you?

Techy: Probably won't be selling either 9800 Pro, sorry. If I upgraded, I'd replace my Hercules 8500 card with it in my lowest specced system.

4 systems here, using: ATI 9800 Pro; Powercolour 9800 Pro; Nvidia FX5700 (256Mb) and a Hercules Radeon 8500. So there's still life in that card if I buy a better one.

Ian: I'll see what I can do about a few screen shots, it's 'F5' I think.

I got it this morning too .

What a game, ive never played a FPS like this before, just pure excellence! If you own a decent comp, get this game now!

Downloaded it thru steam ages ago and after I finally got it authenticated which took ages, it didn't work!!!

But (thank god) it was a common problem so just had to download another file which took another half an hour and then finally I was able to play it

First impressions are amazing, so much detail

Took 5 years to make but finally we have it

Take a look at the steam forums. You might want to buy an ati card it you're going to buy one purely for half-life 2. The performance difference between the 2 card manufacturers is quite staggering. This is one situation where ati whoops nvidia and this is a factual statement not my own opinion (for all you nvidia lovers out there)

Purely out of interest, have u overclocked your Radeon 9800pro at all flops ? Mine's practically smoking it's running so fast :P and its eating doom 3, far cry and even half-life 2 surprisingly for breakfast. Thats with some eye candy on to incase u thought i had it turned down to 800x600 with bilinear filtering on :P

Print Screen works also Flops

Thought it was the exact opposite, with nVidia being FAR better in HL2