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Man. I hate when games make you stand your ground.  Fleeing, I'm good with.  Charging, no problem.  Hiding?  Count me in.  But when a game is, like, "Defend this position until help arrives!" you just know it's gonna be rough. Been playing some Call of Duty 2 lately, and they even give you a nice countdown clock showing you how long you have until reinforcements arrive.  Thanks!  As the time ticks down and I panic more and more (mainly at the thought of failing at the last second and having to go through it again), it's nice to have a giant ticking clock reminding me of how close I'll get before I blow it. No clocks in HL2, but you do get to watch the cart ever-so-slowly grind its way over to you between frantically scraping fast zombies off the pipes with your shotgun.  Seriously, Grigori, you couldn't have had the cart ready?  Dickweed.
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