H A L F – L I F E 2

H A L F – L I F E 2 is here!
I got it yesterday from Amazon.ca at 4:30pm. After a quick install from the DVD I tried to start the game. I got a message from Steam during registration saying I had an ‘invalid cd-key’. Impossible. I just unwrapped the GD game. It was an official release. I spent another hour reading FAQ’s and trying to find an answer to my dilemma. Nothing. Steampowered.com doesn’t seem to have a place to send an email. Bastids.

Time to think creatively. Let’s retype the cd-key in without using shift to capitalize the letters as they were printed on the box. ‘Wait! They’re being capitalized as I type.’ Surprise. It works. Stupid soft-dev a-holes. You’re fired for being morons to stupid to add a note about the typing in the cd-key. The standard is – if a password is shown with capital letters you must type with caps. That the software does it for you is just plain dumb. Then show it in lower case for Christ’s sake.

Anyway, I start it up and became quite immersed in the HL2 world for the next few hours. Although the game doesn’t come close to the hype I’m happy I bought it. The physics are great and the game is pretty fun. The AI (artificial intelligence) is very smart and being able to pick things up and throw them is cool. Hours of entertainment. I can’t wait until they release the deathmatch portion of the game.

Come on OZ Deathmatch.