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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ok, lemme just say this'll be a long review. First I'll review Half-Life, then TFC. (It deserves a little review, doesn't it?)

In HL Single Player, you're Gordon Freeman, normal scientist late for a day at work at Black Mesa Research Facility. When a test goes wrong at work, the poo hits the fan and soon you're fighting for your life against mutated former comrades and aliens from the border world to clear out an escape route to the surface, and to safety. To top it all of the 'Administrator' (commonly dubbed the G-Man) has gotten the military involved to, erm, clean things up- meaning eliminate all survivors- alien or human.

However, you won't be alone. You'll have fellow scientists to help you along the way (right before they get a shotgun blast to the head, if you're that no-mercy-for-NPCs type) and security guards to offer some cannon fodder while you make your escape, and to open doors you can't to make your way out.
This thing is incredible, and the sequences make it even better. Who can forget the scientist screaming as he plunges down the vacant elevator shaft? Made me watch my step...and the ominous music right before you step into a room- and rock begins plunging down over your head? Walk up to a scientist wounded- and he'll pull out a syringe, saying 'Hold still- this won't hurt a bit.' Free heal! Lead a Barney towards an enemy, and he'll yell 'Die, you bloodsucker!' before shooting. (Might i mention the voices are great?) I also enjoyed the beginning- walking past a table with a scientist sitting at a table enjoying some coffee, or another tying his shoe, or another saying 'Someone's hidden my glasses again...'...
Unfortunately, there aren't many skins for the 'Barneys' (security guards) or scientists. But that's a nitpick. I know some people didn't like Xen, either.
Anyway, SP is DEFINETLY worth playing through, unlike some games.
On to TFC...
If your looking for teamplay, you got yer candy right here. Players can choose classes, such as the Heavy Weapons Guy or Engineer, all of which have different skills, pros, and cons. Most of the maps are great- Well and 2fort are good simple CTF favorites, while slightly more complicated scenarios such as Flagrun, Canalzone2, Hunted, or Dustbowl are fun as well. (Except many call Dustbowl Spambowl because of the excessive amount of thrown grenades...constantly)
I enjoy TFC over HLDM because of the variety. Sometimes I play Medic and heal my teammates amid explosions. Others I play Engineer and set up a sentry gun to defend our flag. Or maybe I might play Pyro and enjoy setting enemies on fire. And if I'm feeling frustrated? I'll break out the Heavy Weapons Guy- just hold down the button and shoot at what moves.

All in all, Half-Life is great. I'd highly reccommend it for anyone wanting story, gameplay, replayability, and fun in one big package. Don't forget the thousands of downloadable levels online- The Rats style levels, in which you are 6 inches tall in a bathroom/kitchen/livingroom/ect., are personal favorites.

Excellent Bundle

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Half Life is definately the best shooter game. Team Fortress classic is a great addon. I do not intend on explaining features e.t.c. This is just a great deal, if you don't have Half Life yet, definately buy this one.

Why Play any other Shooter?!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is definelty the best game in the FPS genre. It has brought so much to the table. The mindless blastfests ala quake and doom were fun, but this...wow! There was shooting and an actually story!

An accidental portal to the alien planet Xen opening. Trying to survive the aliens was hard enough. Then the military is sent to help. And by help i mean cleanse the aliens as well as the scientists. So you are up against aliens, marines, *and* the black ops for a few levels. The gameplay is fun, the puzzles range from easy to difficult (the blackops levels, and the part with the lasers and the missle...that took me forever). And i love throwing snarks at marines.

The single player game itself was a lot of fun. But even more came afterwords. All the mods that people have made. My favorite was the "they hunger" trillogy. Night of the Living Dead meets Half life? Pure genious! TFC and all the other online games are awesome (i haven't personal;ly played them much, not much of an online gamer). But I know that they would be lots of fun. Opposing force was awesome (although the horrendously horrible Blue Shi(f)t is a waste of cash). You owe it to yourself to buy and play this revolutionary FPS game. I am happily awaiting its sequal!

Great single player, but even better multiplayer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I still play Half-Life after 2 years, and I certainly don't predict I will stop any time soon. You've all heard of the singleplayer game, but the collection of mods currently out there and still in development rival any other action game out there. In a recent article by GameSpy, it was also noted that there are more Half-Life multiplayer games played each day than Quake 3, Tribes, and Unreal COMBINED. If you just want a quick and easy multiplayer fix, Team Fortress 1.5 is for you (by the way, the new update has just added new player models for all of the different classes you can play). If you want bristling action that'll make your hair stand on end, then Counter-Strike is for you. The sheer adrenaline rush of assaulting an opposing team made up of real players and also doing it with lightning military precision is unmatched. You can also use Roger Wilco to chat with your friends or give radio commands while you play, which adds more realism. If you want to extend your singleplayer experience, there are new episodes coming out all of the time, as well as two distinguished series from Neil Manke, and some total conversions. There are dozens of new multiplayer maps coming out each week which you can check out at various online sites which have a huge community where you can communicate through forums, e-mail, etc... it's endless. For a start, you can try planethalflife.com, a great resource for everything Half-Life. In short, you don't know what you're missing if you don't already own this game. Play the game that has more players than all of the other action games combined. You won't be disappointed.

Buy it Buy it Buy it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game was awarded over 40 game of the year awards back in 98 and it deserved every damn one of them. The single player game utterly blows away the competition (with a rocket launcher). It is fun to play, scary as hell, and very atmospheric. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) is some of the best ever seen. For once, the enemies you face are quite capable of taking you on.

Great,you say, but what about multiplayer? Thanks to the inclusion of Team Fortress Classic (which is worth the price of admission all by itself), Half-Life can hold its own in the battle for your online time. With multiple character classes, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, this is a game that truly emphasizes cooperation. For once believe the hype and buy this game

Great, but use caution!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is without a doubt, one of the most fantastic games aviliable ever for the PC, if not the best. It contains amazing graphics even if you don't have a 3D accelerator. It has a envolving story line and challenges you to solve puzzles and unravel what happened after an explosion turns your colleagues into aliens. But parents, watch out. This game contains EXTREME gore, involving you to shoot and kill enemies resulting in buckets of gore as well as severed heads, bloody limbs and the persons heart. This can be turned off but trails of blood still remain (very bloody) as well as the scare factor. If your over 14 I'd say you can handle it, but anyone under 10 should not get this game!

How could 50 magazines lie?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The topic here is, obviously, this game, Half-Life. I must say, it is all I do. I play HL non stop AT LEAST for an hour a day because it is such a great game. (Yes I have a life) The single player is great. Not only is there tons of adrenaline pumping action, plenty of guns, and so many different enemies and their ways of dying, but it has a STORYLINE! And a good one too. It's about government conspiracy, etc. Anyway, one could play single player for hours on end and not get bored with it. I stayed up for 2 nights playing it the day I got it. I haven't stopped playing it for a year.

But this isn't even getting into the fun part. Where Half-Life excells is in its engine. It's so reliable and good that there are over 40 modifications to the game, including another one by Sierra, allowing a lot of extended single and multi-player gameplay. The multiplayer is awesome, but could be better. Finding specific servers is a hassle, and finding other players is impossible, unless you meet in the chat. WON.net isn't all that user friendly, but it supplies the goods. There are so many options of gameplay that you'll never get bored with it! I am serious, buy this game now! Even if you're skeptic, go download the demo. You will love it. This is the game of all games for everyone into those first-person shooters, action games, and especially multiplayer. No wonder it was Game of the Year in 50 magazines!

A timeless masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life has won numerous awards and has been nominated by gamers on Gamespy.com as the best game of all time.
Half-Life was released back in 1999 and it still goes strong today, being the heart and soul of the #1 multiplayer game of today: Counterstrike.
If you could only purchase one game, this should be it. DO NOT miss out on this great title. Go out and get it today!
Innovative action, great conspiracy storyline that will keep you glued until the last minute. The plot unravels nicely as you travel deeper into the Lambda complex, a secret research facility that's been overrun by mysterious forces. You're one of the few left alive and you're trying to make it out in one piece. But it seems that the government knows about the incident and is even on top of things!

Half Life is the ultimate 3D game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 07, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I was recently at my friend's house. He had just bought a copy of the original Half Life, and said that it was the coolest game ever. He turned on his computer and booted up Half Life. As soon as I saw the title screen, I was completed amazed. What stunning graphics! Then my friend logged on to the internet and in a few seconds, we were playing the multiplayer game! Even though the modem was 56K, the game ran at almost perfect speed. You get to be anything you want as a character, ranging from a sniper to a medic. Some of the people in the server were really tough! I took the role of a medic and got shot down! I was addicted to this game. As soon as I saved enough money, I went and brought my own copy of Half Life:Game of the Year Edition. I couldn't stop playing this game! No other game will give you this much suspense and action!

Half-Life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life deserves more than 5 stars. It is the new king of computer games, Surely the best first person shooter ever made. You play gorden freeman a 27 year old research associate in the Black Mesa research facility. The game has 16 very large and strong levels plus two starting levels and one end game level and it has a game ending that 50% of the gamers would say it is the best ever and 50% would say the worst ever, If you ask me it is the best ending ever for a Pc game story, It has got two great endings a climax and an anti climax. Right from the start you're engaged in events like riding a train to work, finding the locker room and suiting up, and then heading for the test lab. The experiment in the test lab goes very wrong and alien beings are teleported through the portal that opened and the goverment wants to cleanup the mess completly including you. You must fight your way through the aliens and the commandos and be teleported to a distant planet to cleanup the mess that was created. The Game starts and ends on a train. What i really like about half life is that there are no cutsences, The whole story is through the eyes of Gordan, I hate it when games take the controls away from the player.

Half Life has the best graphics ever in a computer game, Dont worry if you dont have a 3D card, You dont need them, The software rendering itself is as good as Direct3D or OpenGL. Valve's artists and sound artists should win awards for their contribution to half-life. The charecters look so real that you really feel sorry for them when they get killed. Not only does the game look and feel like the science lab, but it's monstors and live wire electricity effects all come alive. The graphics of fire and water are simply superb so life like. The sound in half life is very clear that you could understand what the scientist and commandos are talking very clearly, The explosions and the gunfire sounds along with the graphics give a real war like atmosphere. The sound track in half-life the opening music is fantastic. Half Life's level designing is superb, The black mesa is a great place to hang arround. The levels are so beautifully desinged and they are very strong and the puzzles are very challenging. Surface tension is my favorite level. There are 13 weapons but why did the makers have just 5 keys for them, Most of the weapons have secondary fire mode. This is the first game were living creatures are used as weapons, The small alien crab like thing and the hand of an alien, Leave your charecter alone for sometime holding a weapon and you will see him play with it. The commandos are more challenging to fight than the aliens expecially the black dressed woman assasins in the levels apprehension and Lambda complex. Fighting them feels as if you are suddenly in a multiplayer game. Half Life's loading time is really fast and quick save and quick Load lives up to it's name only in half life.

Half-Life has the best multiplayer playability in action games and probably the most easy to use interface ever. Half-Life is a must for all FPS fans. I can't understand how Myst is still the best selling game ever. There is absolutely nothing wrong in half-life, It is probably the most perfect game ever made, There should be a prize to persons who find real fault with half life. The NPC's look alike but that's understandable, In all games two out of ten charecters look alike, It bothers only in half life because they look so real, For people who find that as a big con let me tell you if valve decided that each charecter must have a different then half life wouldn't be half complete today. Some people think Xen is not fun to play, That's because you are in the science lab and all of a sudden you are in Xen and could not handle the sudden atmosphere change, Xen is fun to play. Half Life is a very well planned and polished game that it is very shinning. And it is the only game which has not crashed on my system. Forget Quake II or Unreal, Buy Half Life you would not regret it.

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