I overlooked the one review that rated this game as a one Star game, and paid the price. I have never been as frustrated as I was while trying to install this game, but this one took the cake. The experiance with Steam is absolutly terrible. This is the worst way to sell a game. Forcing a person to wait 2 hours to play a game, one that costs a lot of dough, is a sin. I will never own another Valve game ever. I have played hundreds of games and been pleased with most results, I am not hard to please and am very patient, but after almost two hours of trying to play Half-life 2, I gave up, took the game off my computer and sent it back. All in the same day of receiving it!!! Never again.