[Multiplatform] Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (is there a thread...?)

Well. I'm partway in to the second chapter and all I can say is DAMN. This game is fucking epic ='D

I'm also surprised that there isn't a Half-Life 2 thread (maybe I missed it? Lemme know if I did).

Gotta say that it has a slick presentation per normal. The acting and physics still wow me, and the graphics are just getting better and better =O

I must say, though, that a few of the songs are REALLY badass. Such as...

Antlion Stoplight-Room:

If you can understand the header on this spoiler, you know what I mean.

Right when the vortigaunts come in, some badass song kicks in, and then you just sit back to watch them rip the bugs apart. I need to find that song, because it is so damn catchy.

I'm impressed. Far more than I was with Episode 1 (which ended before I could blink). Ep 1 made me kind of bored since it was so similar to HL2 itself. This is just the same, but I feel really caught up in it. Maybe all the nice twists and such are just adding to it, because I don't see any new weapons... =V

What say ya'll?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Just about to make use of the Magnusson Bomb...: (which is eerie because I had a chemistry teacher named Magnusson. And I hated her )

Spoiler:

Eli KNOWS about the G-Man? I'm THOROUGHLY impressed with how the story is unraveling. I thought the end of this trilogy would still leave us really in the dark, but it's playing things out very, very well. My guesses so far are all over the place. Hell, one thought is that the G-Man is actually from a third alien race that is monitoring man-kind (could maybe explain how he pops in to Gordon's mind. It is telepathy, since he mentioned at the Vort part (where they are healing Alyx) that he had to wait for them to be occupied).

Very impressed so far. I'm a bit before the last chapter and thoroughly enjoying this whole purchase. This has more than made up for how much Ep 1 bored me. The urban combat was just getting real old real fast =(

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Regarding the end...:

Well, I had a small amount of trouble with the Strider-Hunter blitz. I read an earlier comment on here (I believe) and stuck to ramming the Hunters. It is what you're intended to do; I'm certain. Why? Well, Hunters have an annoying dodge where they jump to the side JUST ENOUGH to dodge your car, if you're aimed right for them.

It got to points where I'd grab a Magnusson bomb, aim, and quicksave. I'd fire. Miss? Quickload.

I always wiped out the hunters first. If you didn't, their flechettes would blow up the Magnusson bombs. It became habit, for me.

However, I'm glad it ended when it did. I had two striders at the damn fence-line at the end. Took them out courtesy of a Magnusson bomb transporter being near and a bomb on the back of my car. I am MORE than grateful that they allowed you to stash one on the back of the truck :3

As for the end? ELI NOOOOOOO ;__;

Looking forward to Ep 3. I'm thinking that the rocket in orbit won't do what it was supposed to, hence the G-Man's warning. I wish they would've expanded more on the Borealis, but I'm certain we'll get the idea behind it in the third installment.

Also --
Am I the only one who wanted to shout "WOLVERINES" after taking out all the Striders? ='D

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.