It's not an entirely bad section of the game, but it whiffs of Xen, and leaves you feeling deflated - especially after the stunning intro showing off the Source engine's newfound ability to explode really large things.įor the game to be touted as taking a new direction towards grand, open vistas and rolling, beforested hills, only to send you almost immediately down a mine shaft, is disappointing. A wholly more annoying sort of antlion which vomits acid on you, not unlike the original game's bullsquids. Valve have decided to have the mute Gordon Freeman spelunk a giant antlion cave, full of not just antlions, but a new sort of antlion. If you're like anybody else, and had had enough of the limitless, hive-minded cannon fodder by the end of Half-Life 2, then you won't.
If this sounds like you, and you'd marry an antlion, then you'll love the first section of Episode Two. So Who Likes antlions? And I mean really likes antlions, enough to marry one.
