Texashiker
Lifer
- Dec 18, 2010
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I'd call HL2 an RPG because it does such a fantastic job of engrossing you,
Technically your playing the role of a character, so it could be called a role playing game. But, by the standards set by other games, HL2 is not an RPG - there are no character levels, and there are no skill points, extra skills to learn.
My opinion, HL2 is one of the best single player games to be released in the past 10 years. The graphics engine was released at just the right time to offer people something besides the Unreal engine, and replaced the old Quake 1 & Quake II engines with something new. Not that half-life used the quake II engine, but a lot of other games did.
If you list all of the outstanding first persons shooters of the past 10 years, HL2 has to be somewhere in the top of the list.