Ok I did finally get Half Life 2 working but it did take like 12 hours (well not really, I did go to work and play half life source). It was very fun, the graphics, physics and game play was great, but the story was a little disappointing. In fact there was very little of it at all no plot twists and a very anti climactic ending. Now look at doom 3, it had a way better plot. All those PDA’s gave a little piece of the story and the audio logs really pulled you in. I would have to say Doom 3 is Better Then Half Life 2 because of its graphics, atmosphere and story. Now I know Half Life 2 was holding back for the 3rd game and it is very fun but the bottom line is story. The Biggest revolutionary thing the first game did was bring a great interactive story to the fps and I excepted this would be the sequels biggest feature but it looks like they spent too much time on the technology and forgot the basics. Plus Steam sucks, requiring me to log on to the internet to play single player and then having there authentication servers go down for 5 hours on the first day is not cool.