i played the demo of this game, it rocked, i bought the game a month ltr it rocked even better. i d/l custom skins and units, it was getting to be better than Day Of Defeat and CS together,,
YOU want to know why HL kept on getting game of the year because it realeased an 'SDK' to the community, from which some awesome mods have been made. these mods are told about by ppl to other ppl that have not yet played them, those other ppl go out and buy half life after seeing some screenshots from the mod
In my own opinion BI should relase at least oxygen and the compiling tool to the public, allowing the creation of custom units, you only have to look at the success of Sierra from Realeasing the half life SDK, not only sierra but other games such as Unreal Tournament and Quake 2,3
OF is the greatest game i have played
i will continue to support BI buy buying their upcoming exspansion but please guys dont hide in greed