Half-Life

Half-Life

1998
Action, Shooter
Half-Life is a first-person shooter that requires the player to perform combat tasks and puzzle solving to advance through the game. Unlike most of its peers at the time, Half-Life used scripted sequences, such as a Vortigaunt ramming down a door, to advance major plot points. (Wikipedia)
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Half-Life

1998
Action, Shooter
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Rated 24 Dec 2019
72
75th
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.
Rated 02 Dec 2019
84
87th
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.
Rated 15 Jan 2018
88
87th
A game changer (ha!) in many senses of the genre, its puzzle solving mixed with shooter premise was refreshing and offered a lot of different appeals to different gamer types.
Rated 15 Jan 2018
95
60th
Upon which an empire was built (Steam). Innovative for it's time this is still a solid FPS, but with such a crowded market there are better out there now. Excellent sound design and very atmospheric.
Rated 24 Jan 2018
92
0th
It's a really great game even to this day. The final level is a big let down but at least the game overall is wonderful.
Rated 23 Feb 2018
96
90th
The game design, AI, graphics and sound were all completely brilliant for their time. Now there's an endless stream of add ons. follow ups, imitators and new games either utilising the Half-Life engine in some respects, or taking their inspiration directly from it. That's quite a legacy.
Rated 02 Mar 2018
85
88th
legendary FPS.
Rated 23 Oct 2018
72
72nd
A solid but inconsistent game that has some very good mechanics, even all these years later. The problem is that it doesn't seem at that well thought-out in the big-picture sense. No checkpoints or autosaves make this a frustrating game to replay and at the end it veers into 3D platformer territory when it does not have the mechanics to carry it. The puzzles, however, are quite well-considered though, and help make up some of the difference.
Rated 15 Jan 2019
89
66th
Very good but yikes some of the middle is difficult and those ladders! Most brutal ladder mechanics of any game.
Rated 18 Mar 2019
6
70th
just like the first portal, this is near-perfect game design. and just like the first portal, while i can't say i particularly loved any aspect of it, i still enjoyed it a lot.
Rated 23 Sep 2019
5
47th
Unpopular opinion: The multiplayer was better than the singleplayer.
Rated 10 Dec 2019
85
0th
so much puzzle and physical solutions to things. i like how they take gorden everywhere
Rated 14 Mar 2020
80
80th
/completed 2020
Rated 11 Sep 2020
100
87th
The game that change it all.I will never forget the intro to this game.
Rated 15 Oct 2020
91
93rd
Certainly a well-crafted and influential model for its genre. As far as gameplay, it featured an interesting variety of weapons, as many games of the time did, but also a more interesting variety of enemies than most. But what really made it stand out (and what set the course for so many FPSs to come) was how plot is pushed along in-engine via scripting, and the various ways (some more subtle than others) that it ushers you along its deceptively linear paths.
Rated 18 Jan 2022
99
0th
Gordon freeman run, Gordon freeman thinks, Gordon freeman shoots, but most importantly, Gordon freeman protect
Rated 18 Apr 2022
50
43rd
You fight through hordes of enemies so that you can fix machinery, rince and repeat until the end. There are a lot of cool features in this game, varied enemy types, weapons, environments, gags, platforms, etc but I didn't much care for these. The music was very hype though. Generally disappointed and thinking maybe games aren't for me. Isn't this supposed to be the GOAT. It was pretty weak. Also someone said that this was "story rich", where's the story?
Rated 18 Feb 2024
100
84th
yet another absolute legend trailblazing the road to many new titles and setting FPS starndards high.

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