I'm relieved. I'm out of the streets and I'm working my way down a dark cellar. I mighty welcome it.

I continue my way until I hear the shrieks of a woman, desecrate for help.

"HELP ME!"

I go ballistic. I kill the three gas masks that surround her with my Crowbar.

I then pick up my second weapon in the game. The regular, customary pistol that you find in every FPS.

I notice that I am able to toggle in-between my weapons with the D-Pad. It's not the most cumbersome method ever to swap in-between my weapons as I would have preferred it by pressing a button but, I guess it will do.

I'm not sure if you label Half-Life 2 an FPS or an FPA. It's more of an FPS than something like Metroid Prime at the very least.

There's Gas Masks in hot pursuit of me. I come in contact with them, and I follow the right to keep and bear arms and go frantic and kill everyone in my way.

I hear a train horn go off in the distance. Well, okay it's not that far off in the distance. I'm only like 30 feet away from the train.

The train comes to an abrupt stop. Half of the train is trapped in some kind of BLUE GATE.

I'm not going to bother to figure out why the composite is stopped half-way through the BLUE GATE but enough explaining about that.

I hop aboard the train.

I'm now in some kind of building with no roof attached whatsoever.

I guess these guys love to infatuate buildings and have no mercy for people whatsoever.

Suddenly I'm killed. Some cameras fire at the barrels of red flammable gas that were hidden behind some pieces of plywood that I didn't see. Curses.

I actually died a few more times after this because I didn't know what I was doing.

I get agitated and take note of the mistakes I make and note some framerate issues in this game.

I hate how everything is so muddy in this game. Seriously. It's like some gates and doors that you think you can go through, you can't, and you wouldn't know because there isn't anything realistic or HD about the graphics in this game.

90% of the whole environment consists of nothing but everything I see a shade of Grey/Black/Brown/White. It's hideous stuff. More color would be nice Valve.

The sun is a like a burnt dark orange color. Yuck.

And you can't tell - if there's doorknobs on the doors or not and you think you can go through them, because the doors are impaired by gunfire, but you can't. Oh well.

Like if a bullet goes through the door, from the people trying to kill you, and you think the door is unlocked, it isn't.

They will fire bullets at doors sometimes, and the doors will have zero damage inflicted on it. I've seen 3-4 doors in a hallway, once, locked and I'm like, okay which one do I go through?

I guess I have to take everything here in some kind of pragmatic approach.

I'm now shot at constantly.

I don't think I do anything. Luckily, I see a hole I'm able to crawl through and I proceed on with my journey.

[INSERT BORING ACTION IN THE LEVEL]

I'm at a dead end. Great.

I then see I can jump down in a pool of brown water where some floating crates are.

Pretty much a sewer I have to traverse through.

Things are getting hectic behind me and with NO OTHER OPTION I jump down in the water.

I work my way through the sewer. Wasn't long thankfully.

I climb up a ladder and I jump down to see Robert Downey Jr. and a creepy looking alien hiding in a cable car.

"We're just lookouts for The Underground Railroad."

Okay. So where's Harriet Tubman?

I'M BAD BUSINESS if I'm caught down here apparently.

Robert Downey Jr. opens the door for me, and I continue to stride over the pieces of plywood and fire in my way.

So where am I now?

WHAT IS THAT? A VENUS FLYTRAP?!

It starts hissing at me. Eww.

I repeatedly shoot and kill it until it's dead.

There's some stragglers around the area and I kill them too.

Then all of a sudden, there's some guy in blue armor on a turret.

He mutilates me. Multiple times. I try to rush him and see if I can bypass him but, this idea backfires on me.

I must of died like 8 times with trying some kind of manner to kill him.

The game is pretty difficult on normal. Then again, I wouldn't know if that's good judgement.

This is getting tiresome.

This idea backfires on me and-

[END OF LET'S PLAY - I was getting bored of the game.]

Conclusion

So yeah...I didn't really like the game very much. Keep in mind that, this IS in fact the original Xbox version of the game it was, I was playing - not the superior PC version with what I'm aware of.

Half-Life 2 won over 40 Game Of The Year Awards back in 2004.

This was probably acceptable back in the day - to me anything before 2005 is back in the day. But I never got the appeal this game got.

So, I guess people's taste in video games, were more forgiving back then.

Post Editor's Note

There was a VERY unusual Let's Play on YouTube where there was a playable mod of the game, where Krystal of all people from the Star Fox series was in it and it's so...unfitting. Krystal seemed to be added in the game for the hell of it. She takes over Alyx's role in the game. And it doesn't even fit the setting of the game.

Like why?

For an example, when Krystal speaks and talks to Dr. Kleiner.

Krystal: This is Dr. Kleiner.

Dr. Kleiner: Oh, hi Alyx.

OMG, that doesn't even...I just roll my eyes with a smirk. Like really? What's the point of this mod?

LOL. Okay so, they didn't even attempt to alter any of the other character's dialogue?

Aside from a few sporadic appearances in the story, does Alyx Vance actually do ANYTHING throughout the campaign of the game?

Alyx isn't even playable for a mission or two in the story.

So, why put in Krystal from Star Fox in this mod of the game? She's literally in the game as nothing more than window dressing.

Yeah well, I think I'm finally back to working on Season 5 of my Star Fox fanfiction.

I pause the game at Route Kanal and I see the time in the game is now 123 minutes and 59 seconds.

This is total time for all three levels. Ehh.

I'll stop my playthrough of this game, right here.

I think I'm done playing this game. Thank you for reading this ladies and gentlemen.