Today is the one-year anniversary of the original release date of Half-Life 2. It doesn’t look like we have much longer to wait, though.

PC Gamer’s Half-Life 2 review (not preview) gave the game a score of 96%. The story is that it tied the highest score that the magazine has ever given a game. And the previous record was set by Half-Life.

Hype is one thing, but this is quite another:

Halflife2.net: Was Half-Life 2 what you expected?
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