Half-Life (1998)
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)
Game Information
Platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS
Franchise: Half-Life
Expansions: Half-Life: Opposing Force
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Developer: Valve Corporation
Publisher: Sierra Entertainment
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Half-Life belongs to 9 collections
1. 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (book) (public: moderated by Veterini - 10 stars)
2. Wikipedia's List of Video Games Considered the Best (public: moderated by BeeDub - 2 stars)
3. IGN - Top 100 Video Games of All Time (2019) (public: moderated by Veterini - 2 stars)
4. First-person shooter (FPS) (public: moderated by Veterini)
5. Rock Paper Shotgun - Greatest PC games of all time - 2017 (public: moderated by Veterini)
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| Apr 18 |  |
chorbb | 50 16% |
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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?
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| Jan 18 |  |
H2LOL | 99 0% |
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Gordon freeman run, Gordon freeman thinks, Gordon freeman shoots, but most importantly, Gordon freeman protect
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| Oct 15, 2020 |  |
Heliophage | 91 93% |
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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.
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| Sep 11, 2020 |  |
G-MAN | 100 87% |
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The game that change it all.I will never forget the intro to this game.
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| Mar 14, 2020 |  |
walkearth | 80 69% |
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| Dec 24, 2019 |  |
JSchlansky | 72 76% |
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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.
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| Dec 10, 2019 | maddocks | 85 0% |
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so much puzzle and physical solutions to things. i like how they take gorden everywhere
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| Dec 02, 2019 |  |
Velvet Crowe | 84 87% |
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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.
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| Sep 23, 2019 | BadFurDay | 5 47% |
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Unpopular opinion: The multiplayer was better than the singleplayer.
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| Mar 18, 2019 |  |
lisa- | 6 70% |
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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.
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| Jan 15, 2019 | oaic | 89 62% |
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Very good but yikes some of the middle is difficult and those ladders! Most brutal ladder mechanics of any game.
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| Oct 23, 2018 | vv238 | 72 72% |
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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.
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| Mar 02, 2018 |  |
TheDiceman | 85 88% |
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legendary FPS.
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| Feb 23, 2018 |  |
dunbar | 96 90% |
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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.
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| Jan 24, 2018 |  |
auritech | 92 0% |
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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.
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| Jan 15, 2018 |  |
hellboy76 | 88 87% |
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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.
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| Jan 15, 2018 |  |
VinegarBob | 90 84% |
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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.
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| Average Percentile 62.72% from 525 Ratings |  |