Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist who must escape from the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is overrun by aliens following a disastrous scientific experiment. Its gameplay consists of diverse combat, exploration and puzzles.
Dr. Gordon Freeman arrives late for work at 8:47 am in the Black Mesa Research Facility, using the advanced Black Mesa tram system that leads through the facility. He arrives at the Anomalous Materials Lab, his work place, and he is informed by the security officer that the scientists have a special experiment today, so he goes to the locker room and puts on the hazard suit. He goes to the lab's lower levels, and arrives at the Anti-Mass Chamber, where he is instructed that the specimen to be used that day is the rarest and also the most unstable specimen. He is tasked with pushing the specimen into the scanning beam of the Anti-Mass Spectrometer for analysis. However as soon as he pushes it, it explodes, and creates a sudden catastrophe called a "resonance cascade", opening a portal between Earth and a dimension called Xen. Freeman is apparently teleported to an alien planet and catches glimpses of various alien lifeforms, including a circle of Vortigaunts, shortly before blacking out.
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6.1 hrs on record. Don't trust that, its clearly wrong haha. Half-life is what started it for me. Yeah, sure, I could say Doom is what started PC gaming for me (and of course you can't forget Quake, Wolfenstein, Redneck rampage, etc) but Half-Life is what locked me firmly in place. I still think of the times back then when I used to wake up at 6am on a Saturday to play some Half-Life and Starcraft and watch Pokemon. That feeling is something that I can't replicate today. Perhaps its nostalgia but that carefree feeling of being a kid and enjoying such an insane game is one of my fondest memories of growing up. Not only was the single player insane to my ten year old mind back then but the countless mods that spawned because of this game and the fun times I had.. Some that immediately come to mind: Pirates, Vikings and Knights Vampire Slayer Battlegrounds The Specialists Brainbread Th
I have played this in 1998 when it came out on a voodoo2 12 MB it was ground breaking... a masterpiece, only if I could delete selected parts of my memory and replay this from zero would be great. Maybe one day :D
So, it's been a while now, huh? I was a kid when Half-life was released, and of course, I've played it all through, maybe a dozen times. But only now, when I'm at the half-life age myself, with wife, two kids, a job where I need to speak to people ten hours per day... I finally got it. Every day when I don't need to speak seems like a blessing. So, people, cut your jokes about mouthless Gordon. He just chose the right job. But, there is always a price...
Nerd with a crowbar saves humanity.
Your biggest enemy in Half-Life isnt the aliens or the marines, it's the ladder physics.
Hopefully it's worth the $0.00 that I spent on it.
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