First off, about ATI and HL2. I bought a 9600SE that came with the "free HL2 with your purchase" coupon about a year ago and opted to download the game from steam when available. That said I created a steam account, and preloaded the game. The 16th comes around and I go to enter my cd-key on the card and guess what? It tells me that my key is REGISTERED TO SOMEONE ELSE!!!! So I call ATI and they say they wont send me a new key, and there is no way to prove to Valve that its my key without a retail copy of the game. So after a good day of phone calls I ended up going to best buy and just buying the game retail.
Now, as for the game I am having mixed emotions. The levels on foot are great but the driving levels are entirely too long and predictable. Overall a good experience playing it so far.
System Specs btw. Intel D865PERLL, P4 2.4, 1gb PC3200 DDR, Radeon X800Pro
