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If I could I would rate it 6 stars!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User
Simply put HL is the scariest, alien-shootin'est, head-splatterin'est, crowbar-swingin'est, cart-pushin'est, headcrab-killin'est, vent crawlin'est, best game EVER!
A extream, but fun game!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User
The only way to describe this wonderful piece of computer enginering would be "Spectaculairly wonderful, bloody fun!" I only use it for Team Fortress classic (the "mod" in included) But its wonderful fun! not only a shooting game, because you must employ stratgy. Five star fun!
The best out there
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User
When i bought this game i thought it would end up in my pile of trash boy was i wrong. This game couldn't be better except the graphics but other wise the game kicked...from the storyline to levels. If i had to pick the worst part it would be the start waiting in a stupid train and and having to listen to the lady on the pa yap and yap about ponitless things and then ya have to wait get your suit and listen to more yap it drove me nuts. But when the yaping is done the fun begins from goneing to distant planets to facing a team of millitary specialist you cant count the endless hours of gameplay. Then there is the complex thinking that is a little anonnying, i like to hack away at my enemies and do nearly no thinking. But this game i don't mind doing a little thinking to play such a great game...
The Best Game Ever
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User
When Half-Life first came out in 1999 I was about 11 years old, and I really wasn't into video games. But come late 2004, Half-Life 2 came out, and when I read the PC Gamer review(98%) and saw some screenshots, I went to GameStop to get it. The guy at the counter asked me if I had played Half-Life. I told him no. He then said, since I was under 17 he had no obligation to sell me the M rated game Half-Life 2, until I had bought, played and beaten Half-Life. So I bought Half-Life, went home, loaded it, and started playing. Imediatly I was suprised at how good the graphics were, especially for a game from 1999. The graphics in Half-Life could easily compete with many of the games in the 2000's. Also, the sound extremely good, hearing the slightest of noises. The story is pretty basic, but good enough to keep you interested in that area. You are Gordon Freeman, researcher at Black Mesa Labs. Your expirement has gone very wrong, releasing a bunch of aliens into the labs. The government has sent soldiers in to "clean things up" and you are faced with fighting for your life against aliens and human soldiers. The gameplay is awesome, and the weapons are very good. Online play is fabulous, especially if you have Counter-Strike. So, despite Call of Duty, Doom 3, the Battlefield series, WarCraft 3, Neverwinter Nights, or any other game that is mind-blowing, Half-Life is the best game I have ever played, and in my opinion, the best game ever.
Great game
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User
I BOUGHT THIS GAME LAST WEEK AND IT IS ALREADY ONE OF MY FAVES. yOU CONTROLL A CHARACTER CALLED GORDON FREEMAN WHO IS TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM THE BLACK MESA COMPOUND BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN INVADED BY ALIENS AND GOVERMENT FORCES. IN THE GAME YOU GET MANY GUNS INCLUDING SHOTGONS AND A ROCKET LAUNCHER. I ADVISE EVERYONE TO GET A COPY OF THIS GAME.
Slick, cool, bloody action!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This game is the best on the PC. Its also the best first person shooter out there so far. The action is awesome and explosive.
Gameplay 9/10 Great gameplay. It really requires tactics then just running in front a squad of troops and firing your MP5 like a maniac. There are not a great variety of guns, though, but really great. The multiplayer also rocks (including Counter strike). The AI are probably the smartest of all videogames. They duck, strafe, group up like real soldiers. If they see you at a distance, they'll throw a grenade. The aliens are really cool.
Graphics 7/10 fine, but not the best. The environments are well done.
Storyline 10/10 The storyline is really great. Especially how the story fits with the gameplay.
This is the story: You are a scientist named Gordan Freeman, and you made a accident at the Black Mesa Reasearch center, causing all these alien hordes to enter the facility. The goverment sent forces to kill everything at the facility.You must try to save your own skin.
Sound 10/10 Great sound effects, especially the guns, as realistic as possible.
Difficulty 10/10 this game will probably take up 30 hours or more to beat, it is incredebly hard, cause the AI is too smart.
Overall 9.5/10 great game, must buy for fps fans.
This Game Rocks
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This game truly deserves the best video game ever award. It has the perfect mix of puzzle solving (tell your parents its educational!), mystery, and, of course, blasting stupid freaky aliens! The aliens aren't just little fluff balls, they scare the heck out of you when they pop out of no where. The array of weapons is stunning. Graphics are pretty good and it runs on pretty much all windows so you should all be able to play it. I can't wait to get the sequel and add-ons (Blue Shift and Opposing Force).
The only game that made me buy two copies.
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Normally I'm not ... for buying extra copies, but Half-Life did just that. I myself have a personal story of going into the store to get something...only to end up with a brand new original copy of Half-Life, in that famous original box (not the somewhat worse, but still palatable one you see here for the GotY version).
Yes, you know that you can easily patch any version, and that Half-Life's Counter-Strike modification has kept this game pulling more players than the top other games combined. The number of mod projects for this title are staggering, and Valve Software is making sure to get every last bit of performance out of this one until the "Next Big Thing," which sources have us believe will be quite soon, and quite big (and no, I wouldn't say it's CS 1.6...we're talking about something else). Are there any bad things about this game?
Well, the graphics still are the best thing that my venerable old Packard Bell with 200 MHz Genuine Intel Pentium ran, with its 16 MB of EDO RAM and extremely primitive 1 MB S3 ViRGE card. Still, it ran. Often the graphics seem ugly in comparison to other, newer, and supposedly better things, but they work, and if you care about winning in CS, this seems a secondary concern.
If anything, don't buy this for the standalone game but--for goodness sake--get online and try out some of those mods. You deserve it!
Half a decade and still great
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User
I have owned Half-life since it hit the shelves. My first computer was not powerful enough to play it, so i had to hold onto it for a year. I just reinstalled it yet again this weekend. What is it that keeps me coming back? Replayability. I have played the game through at least twice a year. Its like a great book or movie that requires frequent revisiting. I also have an addiction to Counter-Strike, the greatest mod ever made. It also has a ton of addons (made by valve and gearbox). Also, when mentioning the mods, I would be remiss if i didnt mention the Romero-inspired "They Hunger". If you like horror, this is the mod for you. Purchasing this one game opens the door to an endless world of Gameplay. If you do not have it, get it. get it now.
Half-Life
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Imagine, this. (especially in 1998.)....It's the year 2000+, you work for a top-secret super futuristic scientific research facility, located some-where in New Mexico, your co-worker sciencetists every day conduct more and more crazy experiments(considering interdimensional rifts between energy forces and portals, aliens, and so on.), and are surrouded by america-attituded security guards that seem to wear their helmet on too tightly. Imagine, always being watched by your boss, the G-man, the administrator of the research facility you work in, in a black suit with a suit case. Freaky, you think. Working with amazing next-generation technology in the most massive intricrate place ever on earth and much more. It's called the BLACK MESA RESEARCH FACILITY. Imagine hearing scientists complain all day about having things break that they break themselves. But one day, "science wen't haywire". It was just another day at the office. TO begin with, you took a nice morning ride in the black mesa research facility trains. There appears to be some problems in the facility the morning things go wrong, but your not worried. Until you enter the office. As your train stops at the entrance to the Anomolous materials labotory, the part of Black Mesa you work for, the one with the most crazy scientists that conduct the craziest and most bizarre experiments, the wierdo ones. The guard escorts you out of the tram, and opens the machine-controlled gate to the Labatory you work for, by entering a special code only HE knows. You slowly walk into the labatory, and the door behind you closes. You walk deep into the hall way, as the next gate opens, You step into the labatory. Immediateley, the security guard at the desk says that scientists have been having problems and that his computer has crashed and he's trying to find the files he lost. As you continue to think and explore another day at the office, you make your way down to the labratory after you snatch on your hazard suit near the restrooms. You got the last one. As you make your way down the experimental labatory, you are asked to enter the generator area and start the rotors. You do so. After it's 100% completely start up and ready for the experiment, a futurstic like shopping cart is brought up out of the storage, holding a spectacular unique crystal, and you are told to push it into the beam. You do so, and BAM. There's where Half-Life's brilliant story truly begins. Featuring amazing graphics, Artifcial Intelligience, Sound, Multiplayer along with team fortress, innovative incredible game play experience, extremely well done storyline, great character design and vocie acting, and more, Half-Life is truly a unique experience. And a powerful one. Beat it all the way through and see what I mean. [NOTE, you may notice under the half-life box you purchase, there are minimum and preffered system requirements. If you have a system that is equivilent to the minimum or preffered sytems noted, half-ilfe will be really laggy depending on your settings. I suggest you at least have a Pentium II with a major 3D graphics accelerator supporting OpenGL or/and Direct3D (TNT, Voodoo, Banshee, etc...)with at least 128 megabytes of RAM with Windows 98 or higher, an advanced major 3-D sound accelerator(Sound Blaster, Aureaal Dimaond Monster 3-D, etc)supporting EAX, or A3D, and at least IDSN, prefereably adsl or higher for the ultimate smooth half-life experience. I have a new Gateway with a Pentium 4 processor at 1.5ghz with 512ddr266mhzMegabytes of RAM with an NVIDIA GeForce 2 TI along with Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 MP3+ And Windows XP and ADSL for the ultimate gaming experience, the game runs quite smoothly.) If you play half-life through, you will be impressed. I just can't wait till I get my hands on half-life 2 this autumn. Have fun playing half life until then:)
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