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 A legendary FPS that would change all other FPS's, 2004-09-01
Half-Life came out for PC in 1998. People played it people loved
it. It recieved over 50 game of the year awardes. 1999 Half-Life:
Opposing force comes out. It gets very good reviews.
Then, Counter-Strike comes out, that gets a best multiplayer
online game award. Then Blue Shift comes out, gets good scores.
It also includes a Half-Life HD package which uppon installing
makes the graphics look good. Then Half-Life is ported to the
ps2 with even fancier graphics. After almost 6 years, Half-Life
still is the greatest. It starts out simple. You are a Scientist
named Gordon Freeman who is working a tipical day at the
Black Mesa Research Facility. But, suddenly a teleportation
experiment goes wrong spawning aliens and destroying the
facility. All the doors are shut, and the tram system destroyed
so you must find a way to make it to the surface. The military
are supposed to rescue you, but you find out that they just
want to silence you and your co-workers and make sure that all
evidence of the alien outbreak is concieled. THIS GAME IS
THE PERFECT FIRST PERSION SHOOTER. PERIOD.
 a flawed masterpiece, 2004-08-22
Unless you've been under a rock for the past six years, the majority of computer gamers and fans of good entertainment in general have heard of Half-Life, and hailed it as not just the best FPS ever, but possibly the best computer game EVER. While I think it's very likely that Half-Life earns the former title, I'm not sure about the latter.
Right from the start the presentation of this game is brilliant. Instead of the usual boring cutscenes almost always beginning first-person shooter games, you play out all the areas where there would be cutscenes. The game opens with you, nuclear physicist Gordon Freeman, riding an underground train system to your workplace in the top-secret Black Mesa Research Facility. This takes about eight minutes, while the credits roll in and the train PA announces of company regulations and recent job openings. On the way you'll also see many other things from scientists at work to helicopters landing to a mysterious tall man in a suit with a suitcase walking around. Every single spot where there would have been cutscenes normally you play through, through your eyes, making it incredibly surreal and movie-like.
You also do not start fighting right away, unlike most FPS's. You have to make your way down to a test chamber to test a rare sample (on the way you can do fun stuff, like blow up a scientist's soup in the microwave.....cool). During the experiment an explosion takes place and the screen goes to black, and all you hear is your character's heavy breathing, then flashes of a strange world hit your eyes, before you suddenly reawaken back at the obliterated lab, with a doomy alarm sounding, and a chapter title displayed across the screen. Incredible.
After you get a crowbar and a pistol, through the rest of the game you have only one objective: survive to get to the surface. Unfortunately, while killing some of the aliens is easy at first, it becomes easier said than done when the marine cleaner squads arrive. These (...) are easily some of the most difficult FPS enemies ever. Seriously, I doublebarrell-shotgun blasted a guy at pointblank and he didn't even die until after yet another blast. Insane. Unfortunately while the environments are creative and the gameplay is gripping, there really isn't much to do after a while except kill aliens, kill marines, reload, recharge, get scientist to open door......you get it. And the final boss was a pain in the ass, but after beating him, the final "playable cutscene" of the game is incredible and leaves the game on a complete cliffhanger just like a good movie. To finish it off, while the actual game animations in Half-Life were absolutely incredible (fingers moving on gun, chain moving on grenades, Gordon sticking finger toward mouth of attack beetles), the game engine was one of the ugliest I have ever seen.
To sum this up, Half-Life may have the greatest presentation of any computer game ever, and the combat between aliens and troops is awesome, but does tend to get old after awhile because there never really is any other objective (but that is basically what makes the game so different). To sum it up Half-Life is a masterpiece of PC gaming, but a flawed one at that.
Good, but the multiplayer is iffy now, 2004-08-20
If it weren't for sierra shutting down WON and their in-game multiplayer support, this would be 5 stars. Unfortunately, they now make you use Steam, which is possibly the worst utility ever to grace any Hard Drive in history. It will seemingly sit for up to 15 minutes, then tell you that you need to update your Half life- except it does this almost every time you run the game. Also, I ahve had some issues with 3rd party mods and Steam compatability. But enough bad stuff. Half life is possibly the best shooter ever made, and even if you're not into single player gameplay, this is most likely the most modded game in history. paintball? it's there. Matrix style stunts and slo-mo stuff? they've got it out there. then there's what is the most over-rated, over-played game ever, counterstrike. Not my cuppa tea, but if it floats your boat, fine. Half life is an awesome FPS that actually has plot. This is also the only game i've ever played that has me leaning away from my monitor, and sometimes even cringing to brace myself for what happens next. It's an awesome mix of shooting, puzzle, strategy, and pure terror that it's simply amazing to play. The Game of the year is all you need, the platinum edition is not necessary. you can download almost all of the other games legally, and Blue-Shift is not worth it's time, which is, quite literally, only about 3 hours. That's how long it took me to beat it the first time, no cheats/strategy guide. So get this one. you save money, and if you don't have half-life already, get it. it's worth it.
Nothing before had come close, and nothing ever will..., 2004-08-14
This is plain and simply the best game I have ever player or ever expect to play. Sure some games have better graphics, some have more action, but nothing except Half-Life (including its mildly dissapointing sequels) has ever so brilliantly encompassed a great story, great gameplay, great characters, and great strategy.
It was a normal day for you, Gordan Freeman, an employee at the Black Mesa Research Facility deep in the bowels of the New Mexico desert. Sure, the computer system had been screwy, but your job was easy enough: don a "hazard suit" and do the task detailed to you by the scientists in charge. But then things went horribly awry, the shut-down procedure failed, and only the hazard suit you were wearing saved your life. You must make it to the surface, but the normal routes have been blocked off by the unforseen consequences of the experiment. Hapless unarmed scientists and rogue security guards may be some help, but aside from the weaponry you'll find, you'll have to rely on yourself to fight off the hordes of aliens spawned by the resonance cascade.
Everything about this game is brilliant. Sure, its story (penned not by some computer programmed but genuine sci-fi novelist Mark Laidlaw) of a scientific experiment gone wrong isn't exactly novel, but the fact that the game sticks with the story instead of using it as a clothesline for action sequenced makes up for it. The weapons, which number about 15, are healthily balanced between realistic and original, and are spaced throughout the game so that the player does not find all of them in ten minutes. The NPC's can be funny and are often helpful, the enemies ruthless and cunning.
There is no game I can reccomend more highly, do yourself a favor and play this game as soon as possible. 10/10
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
This game's cool., 2004-08-08
I like it how some people just mention what's bad about this game, but never mention what's good in it. Notice that the 1-star reviewers are mostly morons, like this flooding "This game sucks" guy. Also notice that a lot of people complain about the pixelled graphics. Here's a newsflash: You're all retarded and know zero to nothing about computers. How about going to the options and run the game in Direct 3D? How hard is that? Why can't you guys figure this out by yourselves? Is is because you're all stupid? I guess so.
There's also this guy who complained about the "traps". Well, I guess you're some 10 years old who shouldn't play this game in the first place. What a shame. This is by far the stupidest reason I've ever read to hate a game. Oh well. You've also complained about the bugs. I have a tip for you little boy, download the latest patch to prevent these bugs from occuring(Except for maybe one or two bugs here and there. But come on, are you really going to hate this game just for one bug?).
And for all the stupid people who complain about the controls, here's a newsflash: You can customize your own controls in the options. Pretty amazing, isn't it?
Oh and also:
" There is almost no action, its not difficult, the controls are horrible, and its easy. I will never buy another Sierra game in my life."
You could set the difficulty level to "hard", and the game isn't by Seirra, it's made by Valve. Seirra only published it. Way to go in the stupidity there, retard.
"This game bills itself as an action game...well good luck finding any action. I hope you enjoy finding your way around mazes, searching for buttons, climbing insanely long (and easy to fall off) ladders, and fighting the ugre to simply turn this garbage off and delete it from your system."
Someone has mistaken this game for Doom. Oh wells.
I've seen many stupid people on the internet, but the 1-star reviewers of this game take the cake. You're all morons, and if I had any respect for you, I would've just lost it.
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