Half-Life
Description
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.
Compared to most first-person shooters of the time, which relied on cut-scene intermissions to detail their plotlines, Half-Life's story is told mostly using scripted sequences (bar one short cutscene), keeping the player in control of the first-person viewpoint.
The game regularly integrates puzzles, such as navigating a maze of conveyor belts or using nearby boxes to build a small staircase to the next area the player must travel to. Some puzzles involve using the environment to kill an enemy, like turning a valve to spray hot steam at their enemies. There are few bosses in the conventional sense, where the player defeats a superior opponent by direct confrontation.
Game Details
Genre(s): First-person shooter
Developer: Valve
Publisher: Sierra Studios
Release date: November 19 1998
Platforms: Windows, OS X, PS2, Linux
Gamemode(s): Single player, multiplayer
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Reviews
1 Year Ago
Darius
An excellent classic, revolutionary, it is good to have the opportunity to play this game in the current generation, we can see that for the time when it was created it showed an incredible advance with the AI of the characters that impresses today. I really liked the soundtrack that matched the moments when it appeared
9 Months Ago
Mr Ham
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.