Like eveyone else, we’ve been trying to fit work and real life into the small space between our gaming sessions. All of it however, is water under the bridge, and on November 16 the game was finally released to the world. There was uproar at the proposed Steam online content delivery service and then the game’s source code was dramatically stolen. The much heralded 23 September 2003 release date came and went much to the chagrin of ATI and all those who had bought that company’s graphics cards expecting a free copy of the game to quickly materialise. However, the wait for the game turned into a saga of its own. Not surprisingly then, a lot was expected of the sequel. It was the fact that it was the first game that offered a plot that you actually cared about, meshing graphics and characterisation to pull you into the game. It wasn’t just the cutting-edge graphics of the first game that enthralled gamers worldwide.
But then no other game has had the same impact as the original Half-Life did. In a year that saw the arrival of blockbuster titles such as Far Cry, Doom 3 and Halo 2 for the Xbox, this was quite some achievement. On November 16 2004, gamers finally got to play what was quite simply was the most eagerly awaited game of all time.
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