Half-Life: Opposing Force

Half-Life: Opposing Force is a masterpiece of quiet cruelty. Where the original game cast you as a victim fleeing institutional erasure, the expansion makes you the eraser. As a Marine in Black Mesa, your job isn't to save lives, but to redact them. Through atmospheric discipline and squad mechanics, the game turns you into a disposable node in a bureaucratic machine. It reveals a chilling truth: being useful to power and being protected by it are entirely different things. - Full Review

/completed 2020