TL;DR : A must play if you're a fan of half-life coming back to it, or if you've just played hl:Alyx and needed backstory without the aged 1998 graphics, I can't recommend this enough.

If you've played the original half-life, this is something incredible. Not only achieving the quality valve set with hl2 and the episodes, this adds so much to the end xen chapter that it's worth the cost of entry alone. While the game's textures and models feels a bit dated in 2020, with hard corners and textures not up to the scrutiny provided by even a 1440p monitor, it incorporates such impressive visual effects that it far surpassed my expectations of a source engine indie game. My computer is full featured if aging, with a threadripper 1950x and 1080ti powering a 240hz 1440p display, and my biggest complaint is that at the very highest, experimental settings there were some awful frame drops in xen and during heavy earth combat. It's clear optimization has happened since earlier builds, and more is supposedly coming from both the devs and community mods.

TL;DR : A must play if you're a fan of half-life coming back to it, or if you've just played hl:Alyx and needed backstory without the aged 1998 graphics, I can't recommend this enough. If you've played the original half-life, this is something incredible. Not only achieving the quality valve set with hl2 and the episodes, this adds so much to the end xen chapter that it's worth the cost of entry alone. While the game's textures and models feels a bit dated in 2020, with hard corners and textures not up to the scrutiny provided by even a 1440p monitor, it incorporates such impressive visual effects that it far surpassed my expectations of a source engine indie game. My computer is full featured if aging, with a threadripper 1950x and 1080ti powering a 240hz 1440p display, and my biggest complaint is that at the very highest, experimental settings there were some awful frame drops in xen and during heavy earth combat. It's clear optimization has happened since earlier builds, and more is supposedly coming from both the devs and community mods.