It’s up to you to discover what’s going on as you go about your journey. Valve took its time to build the world without boring exposition. First of all, and as I said, everything speaks. It’s such an essential piece of gear than its OST became part of Valve’s official logo. You wear the HEV suit, and it comes with a computer voice helping you understand what you need at each moment. Even injecting health into your suit makes noises you will never forget. And whereas you don’t speak, everything else does. Now, the experience is setting free the Earth from the Alien invasion. Soon enough, you start a mission to defeat the alien race and free the Earth. You wake up on a train on your way to City 17, which is under the control of The Combine. They opened a rift to another dimension, and so an alien race known as the “Combine” conquered the Earth. Back in 1998, the lab’s experiments brought Unforeseen Consequences to the world. You were “missing” since you escaped from the Black Mesa lab incident. I want you to experience it fully, as every little thing, every noise, every scanner light, and every radio chatter builts the game’s universe slowly and carefully. If you haven’t played this before, I won’t spoil much. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling.” The environment speaks Platform: Windows 7/8/10 PC, macOS PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 It executes its concepts and mechanics to perfection. That’s the reason why it won over 10 Game Awards and why many consider it the greatest FPS in history. It was years ahead of their competition in visual design, graphics, sound FX, and gameplay. Sixteen years ago, when Half-Life 2 debuted, it was a technological revolution. You could play any title of the Half-Life series for under $10 on Steam (before Half-Life: Alyx). Now, they hold the most prominent PC games storefront.īoth games are high-up the history charts. Then, they took about six years to develop the second one with the rewards they gained from the franchise starter. Valve made the original Half-Life as an indie studio. It’s so good it built Valve’s reputation to what it is now. Both titles shaped the industry and fueled a fan community that will never stop asking for Half-Life 3. It’s an impressive and engaging shooter that follows-up one of the greatest PC games we’ve seen.
What we’ve got here is a classic masterpiece. There’s a zero-to-none chance you’ve never heard of its sequel, Half-Life 2. Winner of over 50 Game of the Year awards, Half-Life set new standards for action games when it was released in 1998.
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