Half-Life 2: Game of the Year Edition
by Electronic Arts
Our Price: $39.65
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Buy Used: from $5.39 (click here)
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Product Summary
Brand: Electronic ArtsPrimary Contributor: Windows 98
Format: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2005-09-06
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
Model: 71608
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Product features:
- Realistic physics: objects have varied and appropriate mass, density, physical properties
- Sequel to the hit first-person shooter
- Scientist-with-a-crowbar Gordon Freeman joins a ragtag human resistance fighting extradimensional invaders for the survival of a conquered Earth
- Unnervingly realistic graphics the likes of which have not been witnessed outside of a motion picture or pre-rendered cut scene
- Special Edition includes Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, plus Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Half-Life: Source.
Video Game Reviews of Half-Life 2: Game of the Year Edition
Customer Review: Seriously, don't buy it used or it won't work!
Summary: 1 Stars
I have no idea how the game is because I bought it from an Amazon marketplace seller and now the "Steam" anti-piracy protection system won't let me play it.
I went to the Steam support pages like I was told to, and I read this:
"... you must have a copy of your purchase receipt from within the last 90 days to have the CD Key moved to your account.
"We do not accept receipts from online auction websites or used software vendors. If you do not provide a purchase receipt, Valve will not be able to transfer the CD Key."
I can't believe that anyone accepts this as a reasonable way to sell consumers a game in a box, but I guess they do!
I read a thread on some Half-Life 2 forum where the users were telling a guy not to bother Valve, the software creators, with questions about their policy, but rather just to return his used game to whoever he bought it from.
Unbelievable!
From what I hear, maybe if I send the right person at Valve an actual photo of my box, and wait two months, I might be allowed to play. However, that's certainly not what the text on the Steam support page says.
If this is really the accepted practice regarding used copies of Half-Life 2, then what is Amazon doing letting their marketplace sellers sell these used copies?
Unbelievable! How much research is one supposed to do when buying a game?
Description of Half-Life 2: Game of the Year Edition
Half-Life 2: Game of the Year Edition compiles all the best elements of this incredible game, with all-new player options and even better graphics. Start out withHalf-Life 2,where you return to the alien research facility called Black Mesa. The aliens are now pouring into our world and you'll join the resistance movement to stop them. Battle it out with friends in crazy, realistic mulitplayer action withHalf-Life 2 Deathmatch.Then test your tactical abilities withHalf-Life: Source-- where the gaming kicks up anotch through the amazing Source game engine. With the Source engine, you get high-resolution textures, detailed character models, realistic physics and lighting, support for up to 64 players, shiny water effects&better objects - creating a more realistic gaming experience. The action continues in bigger, better form withCounter-Strike: SourceShooter Games
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