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The Half Life 1 vs Half Life 2 debate is an interesting one.

Unquestionable Half Life 2 makes great strides in graphics, environmental interaction and story telling but its inarguable worse when it comes to combat.

Half Life 2 has technically better A.I capable of doing more advanced actions. The problem is that the map design of Half Life 2 and Episode 1 prevents the A.I from doing its more advanced behavior resulting in A.I that frequently just has soldiers standing out in the open firing or charges straight at the player. Its also a much easier game as the game uses a dynamic supply system where the supply creates in game will always give the players exactly what they need in terms of health or ammo. From my understanding the map design of Half Life 2 Episode 2 allowed the solider A.I to show off what it can as does some mods but in Half Life 2 and HL2 Episode 1 the combat.

Half Life 1 on the other hand has limits to the A.I in that it can't shoot and move at the same time but the A.I is faster, moves around a lot more telegraphs its movements better via audio barks and uses grenades more to flush the enemy out as well as being able to take and dish out damage better, which making them more interesting and challenging to fight. There more fun to fight than the A.I in Black Mesa as well who's ability to move and shoot actually makes them less interesting to fight than the constantly relocating soldiers in HL1. Though you could argue the changes to monster A.I in Black Mesa make the monster more interesting to fight in that game.