are there any new aliens or anything? Weapons? How are the combats if there are not any/many new enemies?

Are the "secrets" still as box pilingly lame?

Is it just more HL2? Really worth the cash? 

Zombified combine soldiers. They don't shoot, but they run faster sometimes and they sometimes pull out a grenade but forget to throw it, so you have to kill them before they get to you and gravgun the grenade away.

Ep2 supposedly introduces a new alien species, though. 

hl2 ep1 is a well thought out way to get your money? 

[nt] 

...but, hell, it is an "other" game, and a bunch of the designers here got sucked into it at lunch yesterday. I finally beat it (Lvl 30) last night.

Pretty addictive and fun.
Oh, and level 16 is a dirty, dirty whore.

http://www.microgames.info/game_info.php?products_id=205 

[nt] 

Okay yeah I'm stupid, but now I am stuck on 15 :( 

I want PC games that would be mostly action-oriented (more than rpg and not pure puzzle adventure games) and would be sort of an open world/nonlinear.
Like Fable or BGE.

If you know games like that - please tell me.
Could be old games too (anything that runs on w2k) 

is a bitch, yeah :D 

first game I played on my new computer, no real reason but already had it lying around since my brother bought it for his laptop a while back.

Pros :

- cel shading is nice, although it does admittedly wear off after a while.

- some of the outdoor levels are very nice

Cons :

- most of the level design ranges from average to poor. Out of 30 or so levels, 5-6 are good.

- poor gameplay. Some of it is compounded due to the next point but although the makers have tried to keep it varied, it's fairly mediroce in its execution.

- Fucking lame checkpoint system. This pissed me off no end, especially since the checkpoints became scarcer as the game went on and because you were forced to sit through entire cut scenes upon each reload.

- Plot. a C grade attempt at redoing the Bourne Identity storyline in a noir like fashion. It's terrible and takes up too much gameplay time too.

I'd rate this 5/10. 

...is effectively a bitch !! 

.. is even worst !! 

... completlty stucked at lvl 21... 

I mean 23 ... ;P 

Try Fallout. 

It was kind of weird...level 16 slowed me down for over 20 minutes, but once I got it, none of the following levels ever slowed me down for more than a short time.

The guy needs to make more levels and use various shapes of primitives... 

.. there are 30 levels... adn then it's over.. 

such a bitch! solved after 2 hours :( 

But it has Starfarce. 

it's an older version of starforce though, not starforce 4, which is the one causing problems (Splinter Cell 3 and the new Prince of Persia have it). 

played both fallouts ofcourse. and its rpg, not action really

XIII kept me interested till 2nd winter level, then I gave it up. rather average game 

didnt miss much, 1 or 2 decent levels after that but not much more. 

Sure they're RPG - I thought the action within would satisfy your needs. Anyway, glad you've played them. 

so does this game have real time combat ?

never played morrowind so have no idea what to expect from this. 

And it's actually much better than Morrowinds combat (which was also real time, but actually hitting your enemy was an electronic roll of the dice based on offense/defense combination, and (especially at low levels) you'ld just stand in front of an enemy and flail at air quite a bit sometimes.

If you hit something in Oblivion, you'll actually make contact based on positioning, and then the offense/defense only comes into play to determine damage.

Oblivion is enormously better than Morrowind when it comes to graphical beauty, combat, and many basic game mechanics, while Morrowind excels at making general world exploration a joy, and provides much more asset variety (e.g. architecture, races, factions) and random hidden fun to discover.

Both games are on my personal "best-ever" list.