Half-Life

I'm glad the game box let us know that the guy we play has a goatee, otherwise we wouldn't know he's cool. I still have flashbacks to the countless times I forgot the game didn't have a checkpoint system, or the times I accidentally quick-saved while falling off a ledge and fucked up the whole space-time continuum.

The game boasts a lot of cool enemy design and a variety of ways to tackle levels. The ai is really clever even by todays standards, being capable of setting up ambushes and flanking maneuvers among other things. For as enjoyable as combat encounters are, there's some things about this game that is aggravating such as awful, overly slippery platforming and some annoying level/enemy design around the end. Still, this is an exemplary FPS that I give far higher praise to than its sequel.

gameplay epic but not at all re-playable I died so many times during the end and couldn't even shoot the tiny headcrabs so they would stack

had so much fun playing this

Repetitive locations and gameplay kill the desire to keep playing.

While the graphics have not aged the best, the gameplay and story is top tier. It is a must play for every gamer.

Historia.

yet another absolute legend trailblazing the road to many new titles and setting FPS starndards high.

Half-Life begins on a tram you cannot exit, exposing its true subject: life inside a totalizing apparatus. Gordon Freeman isn't a hero; he is the ideal compliant worker. A silent technocrat, he never refuses—he just punches in. Even his suit mediates his body, outsourcing pain to a subroutine. The game’s genius is its illusion of freedom. Seizing the crowbar—a simple labor tool—becomes a fleeting, utopian revolt against a system built to dictate his every move. - Full Review

What can you say about Half-Life? A top of the line FPS when FPS was taking over; the first major action game to deliver immersive, cinematic storytelling; groundbreaking enemy AI; the launcher of the company that would launch not only multiple iconic games, but the de facto modern distribution platform for PC gaming. And the engine is the basis for several major games and mods as well. Half-Life is in the running for the most impactful game of all time.