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You would be a fool NOT to buy this!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 19
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Let me cut right to the point: as far as action games go, this is THE game to own. It wouldn't matter if you bought another action game, because they will never compare to this. Unlike most games where they throw you right into the action, Half-Life lets you adjust to a normal, every-day setting for a while, just before bringing it crashing down over your head via a dimensional portal to an alien world. See, you play a normal, bland scientist guy named Gordon Freeman who works at a secret research base miles underground. This place makes the fabeled Area 51 seem like a little shack. Anyway, you show up and work, only your experiment is interrupted when it explodes and opens a gateway to an alien world. Now these aliens aren't really friendly, and start crossing over to our world to tear up some stuff. You race to the surface, where you know help will be and you can get them to help save your friends, right? Big mistake, pal. The help comes in the form of military commandos, on a mission to wipe out this little disaster, and this involves silencing you and your co-workers permenately. So, now what? The artwork is amazing, the story is compelling. Words simply can't deescribe this masterpiece worthy of the title Game of the Year. Plus, for those of you new to action and first-person shooter games, there's even a short but handy training area where you learn how to do the stuff you need to know for this game. Overall, this is the best bet for any computer game fan.

Half-Life Fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life restored my faith in gaming! Simply destroys any quake game, including that Pentium III and super 3d accelerator graphics stupid game that is QUAKE III - Arena. Half-life is the best pc game i've ever seen...

Simply the best...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This package with Half-Life and the Team Fortress Classic mod is really hard to beat. First off, Half Life is the most immersive, fun, and exciting game of all time. Nothing comes close to the tension you feel when your flashlight is low on power, you are low on health and have only 3 shots left in your pistol...and you must make your way through a ventilation shaft populated by those little spider crab creatures. Make sure the system you plan to play this game on more than meets the minimum requirements in order to enjoy the full experience (3d card is almost required). If Half Life wasn't enough then anyone will surely enjoy Team Fortress Classic. I've spent countless hours playing this game over the internet. It contains nine different classes from which the player can choose. Each class has its own plusses/minuses and each map you play on has their own special objective. One map may have you capturing the enemy flag and running back to your base for a score whereas another map may have you protecting 'the president' as you escort him across the map while being targeted by enemy snipers. All in all, TFC makes this product worth getting! This game puts Quake III, Unreal, Sin, Kingpin and all other First Person Shooters to shame. It rightly deserves its 'Game of the Year' award.

Much better than Unreal or Quake 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Half Life is a very stunning game. Everything about it is just awesome. Remember the part in Unreal when you could hear screaming behind a door and you don't know what's going on? Remember how that frightened you? Well, up that one, because this game is more frightening because it's more realistic (because of the wonderful A.I.), and because you don't know what's going on behind the scenes most of the time. All you'll notice is the screaming sounds, or the gore coming out of the vents, or some mysterious guy walking around. Every minute of this game is pure bliss.

One of the most wonderful parts that truly stuck out for me was watching the team of commandos outside trying to flush me out. Some would hide behind boxes, while others would throw gernades into my hiding spot. What's so spectacular about that is the fact that 'their' backup would just bomb the whole place, just to make sure I was dead! That was a truly fightening experience, not knowing where the bombs would land, or where an enemy would hide.

Buy this game, please..

A pageturner of a game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This must be what they call a pageturner in the world of books. You just can't stop playing it. It has one of the best story lines in a game ever, and without doubt the best story in a FPS ever. This one is going to be hard to follow up, and it must be seen as the new standard in FPS, from now on you'll be talking about Half-Life clones, instead of Doom and Quake clones.

Treat yourself with the luxury of Half Life, and you'll never regret it.

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!

GAME OF THE YEAH... DUH!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 07, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is simply the most versital game I've experienced. Not only does is standard half life game an amazing experience, but it also include team fortress. Team fortress is in it's own right the best internet game for team tatics and mock war. If you need even more, the website offers mod's of the week that are nearly as amazing as the original game themselves (My favorite is the counter strike mod, it's a killer.)

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.

Half-Life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

HAlf-Life is one of the most engenious games ever thought up. It combines the shoot-em up gorey scenes with the ingenuity of a deciceve puzzle. scene after scene of high paced action and mind teasers will make the player go on for ever. my father once played all night without sleep- and still didn't win.

Halflife

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The ultimate in first person shooters to date. The games story line pulls you into it. It will drive you to progress throught the game. Halflife is an intense white knucker ride!

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