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Great Multiplayer, Decent Single Player
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User
Since I purchased this game a couple of months ago I have played it almost every single day. This game is FUN. The multiplayer is just as exciting now as it was when I first started playing. The single player, on the other hand, is not as enjoyable. It is ok, but not as addictive as the multiplayer. In fact, I have yet to play through the entire single player game yet. I am only about half way through.
Team Fortress Classic is an amazingly fun game. They were geniuses to include the game with this edition. This game brings a whole new life to multiplayer, it goes so far beyond the standard deathmatch-kill-everything-you-see. It brings actual strategy and the need for cooperation between teammates. I can't wait for Team Fortress 2.
READ THIS
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 2 / 13
Date: March 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User
If any of you have heard of the game starcraft this game islike it, with the exception of harder startagies and harder tomemorize maps. This game is a great game mainly because it has taken abig step from taking starcarfts few on-line gamers and making it way bigger.This game has great graphics for the time it was made and I reccomemnd it to anyone.The great thing about Half-Life is you'll never be too good.With the new amount of people comming on everyday you are up for a real bet.
NOTE: If you like Half-Life cheack out the other games like ranbow-six and Starcraft Brood:Wars (follow Starcraft;Starcraft was the game of the year.)
KICK A$$!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User
THIS GAME ROCKS! IT IS SO COOL.IN THE GAME YOU GORDON FREEMAN A SCIENTIST AT THE BLACK MESA RESEARCH FACILITY.AS THE GAME BEGANS YOU ARE RIDING A TRAM THAT IS TELLING ABOUT THE BLACK MESA RESEARCH FACILITY.AS YOU ARE RIDING SCIENTISTS ARE RUNNING AROUND BELOW YOU BUSILY. AFTER A WHILE THE TRAM STOPS A SECURIY OFFICER WALKS CASUALLY OVER AND COMENNTS THAT YOU'RE LATE.THE SECURITY DUDE THEN LEADS YOU TO A DOOR AND UNLUCKS IT FOR YOU.JUST A NORMAL DAY...OR IS IT? THE GAMES GRAPHICS ARE EXTREMLY GOOD AND THE PEOPLES MOUTHS ACTUALLY MOVE! THE A.I. IS INCREDIBLE!THE SCIENTISTS MAKE FUNNY LITTLE SIDE COMMENTS AND HAVE HILLARIOUS ANTICS.YOU CAN EVEN TALK TO PEOPLE BY PRESSING THE USE KEY(E).THE CONTENT IS EXTREMELY VIOLENT PROBABLY NOT GOOD FOR KIDS 13 AND UNDER. OVERALL THIS GAMES ROCKS AND I HIGHLY RECOMEND IT
This game sucks!!!
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 5 / 55
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User
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Do not buy this game.
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 2 / 17
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User
I've played this game for a year, and not long ago found out that at least one in three players in multiplayer mode are cheating. They can cheat because Valve, the company behind the game, has been irresponsible and has not released any fixes for the problems. I myself have downloaded the freely available cheats to see firsthand what others are using. I've seen other players trying to shoot me through walls, looking straight at me. This was a fun game in single player mode but now I truly hate Valve and anyone associated with releasing this game. All e-mails to Valve and Sierra went unanswered. Spend your money on something else. You've been warned.
Don't Buy This Game
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 2 / 19
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Quite possibly the worst game I have played in my life! I think Oregon Trail was better. To start out the graphics look like about 64 colored blocks on your screen. The weapons and enemys suck as well as the game play. There is almost no action, its not difficult, the controls are horrible, and its easy. I will never buy another Sierra game in my life. This game cost me $40 and wasnt even worth a quarter. Do not buy this game, you will be very dissappointed. And this goes for other versions of half life as well.
this game stinks
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 2 / 29
Date: September 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User
The graphics are worse that the Atari 2600 version of Pong. I couldn't tell which "character" was me, and which were the aliens. Don't waste your time on this poor "game". Buy one of my great CDs instead, and entertain yourself by playing the air guitar for hours!
Wow!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 5
Date: June 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User
BUY THIS GAME NOW! Half-Life is the best computer game ever!
a flawed masterpiece
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User
Unless you've been under a rock for the past six years, the majority of computer gamers and fans of good entertainment in general have heard of Half-Life, and hailed it as not just the best FPS ever, but possibly the best computer game EVER. While I think it's very likely that Half-Life earns the former title, I'm not sure about the latter.
Right from the start the presentation of this game is brilliant. Instead of the usual boring cutscenes almost always beginning first-person shooter games, you play out all the areas where there would be cutscenes. The game opens with you, nuclear physicist Gordon Freeman, riding an underground train system to your workplace in the top-secret Black Mesa Research Facility. This takes about eight minutes, while the credits roll in and the train PA announces of company regulations and recent job openings. On the way you'll also see many other things from scientists at work to helicopters landing to a mysterious tall man in a suit with a suitcase walking around. Every single spot where there would have been cutscenes normally you play through, through your eyes, making it incredibly surreal and movie-like.
You also do not start fighting right away, unlike most FPS's. You have to make your way down to a test chamber to test a rare sample (on the way you can do fun stuff, like blow up a scientist's soup in the microwave.....cool). During the experiment an explosion takes place and the screen goes to black, and all you hear is your character's heavy breathing, then flashes of a strange world hit your eyes, before you suddenly reawaken back at the obliterated lab, with a doomy alarm sounding, and a chapter title displayed across the screen. Incredible.
After you get a crowbar and a pistol, through the rest of the game you have only one objective: survive to get to the surface. Unfortunately, while killing some of the aliens is easy at first, it becomes easier said than done when the marine cleaner squads arrive. These (...) are easily some of the most difficult FPS enemies ever. Seriously, I doublebarrell-shotgun blasted a guy at pointblank and he didn't even die until after yet another blast. Insane. Unfortunately while the environments are creative and the gameplay is gripping, there really isn't much to do after a while except kill aliens, kill marines, reload, recharge, get scientist to open door......you get it. And the final boss was a pain in the ass, but after beating him, the final "playable cutscene" of the game is incredible and leaves the game on a complete cliffhanger just like a good movie. To finish it off, while the actual game animations in Half-Life were absolutely incredible (fingers moving on gun, chain moving on grenades, Gordon sticking finger toward mouth of attack beetles), the game engine was one of the ugliest I have ever seen.
To sum this up, Half-Life may have the greatest presentation of any computer game ever, and the combat between aliens and troops is awesome, but does tend to get old after awhile because there never really is any other objective (but that is basically what makes the game so different). To sum it up Half-Life is a masterpiece of PC gaming, but a flawed one at that.
A awsome game!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User
Half life is truely the best game ever made, a milestone in gaming history. Half Life lives up to its popularity. The game is fun to play. The story is also exciting. Get this game right now if you still haven't lived it!!
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