Re: For those disappointed by 360 kiosks

listermonocle@xxxxxxxxxxx <listermonocle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As for AI and the arrows, the game was on the easy setting. Supposedly
> the AI is never all that great (as in 90% of all games), but the arrows
> at lest are available only on Easy.

One of the reasons that Half Life was popular was that the AI was halfway
decent. The soilders would scatter, find cover, and throw grenades at you
with some proficency. I remember sniping one solider, and his buddy ran
off to get reinforcements from the next room...
.

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