The award winning Half Life Franchise has now come out with a complete revamp, Half Life 2Here are the cheats, codes and hints to be a better Gordon FreemanIf Quake was the muscle of First Person Shooters, Half Life was the brain for the FPS genre of gamesOne of the most important things that Half Life did was to put together the mindboggling (read mindless) action in a streamlined, storylined wayVeteran gamers still regard Half Life as the game that got people of a higher refined taste interested in Gaming

Till then, computer gaming was just for social outcastsHalf Life is also considered to have buoyed the financial capabilities of computer gaming, with a vast number of people considering gaming as a normal entertainment exercise due to the intelligence in the gameSimply put, the Half Life franchise of games put normalcy into gaming.

Half Life was also the first ever game to show the game (and earn money) from the viewpoints of every character in the gameThe only other way other gaming companies could hide their laziness from creating characters and storylines was by creating sequels, prequels and spin-offsHalf Life was a game of many firsts, and with the advent of new gaming technology, came the much awaited sequel to Half Life, Half Life 2

While Half Life was generally considered way ahead of its time when it was first released in 1997, Half Life 2 saw a complete overhaul of the gameRight from the graphics, the gameplay to the storyline, everything was worked uponWhat remained same were the hours gamers would spend racking their brains to solve a particular puzzle, or pump bullets into one alien or another.

Here are some Half Life 2 cheats, tricks and hints to make life easier for people out there who are deciding whether to catch lunch or spend some more time trying to fly the rag tag motorboat above the wall, or deciding to give one last try to either the bricks to get up the platform or keep the door as a plank to climb upwards.

To activate Half Life 2 cheats, you will have to activate the cheat consoleThis is a bit tricky and requires a fair amount of concentrationSelect the Properties of your Half Life Shortcut by right clicking on itOn the properties tab, add -console in the 'target' fieldThe final result will look something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Half-Life 2\hl2.exe" -console

It is suggested that you make any changes after creating another shortcut to the gameThis depends on which drive and which folder you have installed/saved your gameOnce you have done this, press the tilde (~) key while in the gameYou are now ready to key in the HL2 Cheats and cheat codes.