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I know I will get blasted for this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 43
Date: January 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The only reason this game gets one star instead of two is because of the hype. I hate hype, especially when it pushes a product so undeserving as this. I realize many people, ESPECIALLY people new to computers and this genre of game, like Half-Life. I also know that most of the experienced gamers and computer nerds I know don't like this game. Could there be something to this?

First of all, the A.I. in this game is no better than Quake II or almost any other FPS. It has been praised by many magazines, including PC Gamer. But the fact is, the A.I. is still A.I. and therefore is still dumb. And I have a feeling it is not going to get smarter for years.

Second, the atmosphere in Half-Life is too cheerful. Now, I'm not saying it's happy, but when you are playing it, you just get that feeling that these aliens don't really hate you. Most of this is do to the brightness of the game, but the rest is just due to the monsters themselves. Id Software had this aspect of the game nailed down perfectly in Quake I, which is now what I compare all single player games to.

Anyway, I have said what I think, and no doubt I will return to this site in a few days to find 2 of 73 people found this review to be helpful. If you want to buy into the hype, get Half-Life. If not, save your money, because a quality single player FPS will be released... eventually.

Half-life...slow and dull

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 25
Date: May 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game bills itself as an action game...well good luck finding any action. I hope you enjoy finding your way around mazes, searching for buttons, climbing insanely long (and easy to fall off) ladders, and fighting the ugre to simply turn this garbage off and delete it from your system.

This game sucks!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 55
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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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!

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.

Too Drawn Out

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 24
Date: August 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game starts off sooooooooo slow and in order to actually get into it, you have to be playing for 3 days without stopping. Too many things are drawn out....

this game sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There are traps in this game where you always die no matter how good you are. Things such as the floor falling out from you and thing falling on you always kill you the first time. Only after you know about it can you avoid them. This game is also still full of bugs. The game control itself also is bad.

this game is ONLY AVERAGE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All those great reviews must have been done while the players were smoking something. This game has lousy controls and is frustrating to play. This game also suffers from cheap setups that you as a player cannot avoid until it is too late. Things like falling office equipment, the floor falling out from under you, all kill your player no matter how good you are. Only after you KNOW about the traps can you avoid them. So you must die at least once at each trap before you can go on. Cheap. As far as Half Life 2 is concerned? NO THANKS if its more of the same!

Did I miss something?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: February 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First, Half-Life itself. The game survives on its mediocrity.

Graphics - at the time, the graphics were good (thanks to the Quake engine), but by no meens exceptional in any way. Everything looks pixelated and like it's a sprite.

Sound - Everything sounds believable, but not 'real'. Every weapon in the game sounds like a muted version of its real life equivilant. The music kicks in every half an hour or so, and, at that point, is more of a distraction than a mood enhancer. The enemies are probably the best part of the sound department. However, because they're 'aliens' any sound you give them would sound believable.

Plot - Take away the psuedo-physic talk and replace 'another dimension' with 'Hell' and you pretty much have the same storyline as Doom; nothing special there.

Weapons - Probably the best part of the game is in the weapons, but, again, they're really only mediocre. On the plus side, you get about 300 weapons, but on the negative side, you probably won't be using a lot of them much. For example, the harpoon gun is used to fight underwater enemies, but is very ineffective on land which sounds good at first. Then, you realize that there are, like, two places that you're fighting underwater enemies. Another would be the trip mine. After considering it for some time, I can't think of a place that I would even consider using one in the game. And why would anyone wait for a 'zombie' to walk into one when you could blow them away with a shotgun instead.

Boss battles - There's not really much battling being done. The game either makes it very clear how to beat a boss or makes you wander around getting killed for about half an hour trying to figure out how to kill it. They went for a brains over brawn approach, but I want SOME brawn being used.

Elevator bug - Makes the game almost unplayable by my standards. The way this bug works is as follows: You hop on an elevator of some sorts (if the bug hasn't already stoped it), start either going up or down, freeze, slowly die, restart from whatever place Valve decided to save your game at. It's unbelievably frustrating when you have to retrace 15 minutes worth of work over something so stupid and relatively easy to fix.

Half Life multiplayer - There are about 6 multiplayer levels that come with this game, and all of them suck. You'll find yourself running back and forth through the same corridor (because the levels aren't circular like they should be) trying to find someone or a half-decent weapon.

About Day of Defeat and Counter-Strike - First, they are not Half-Life. Second, they were not created by Valve. They were mods created by gamers which were later adopted by Valve. They are not even included on this CD as far as I know. You must download them seperately, which would be fine with me if Valve actually gave their buyers working links to update and download their products.

Bottom line - Half-Life is a mediocre game, at best, that you can breeze through in a weekend. If you're looking for Counter-Strike, just buy the actual Counter-Strike CD and save yourself some hastle.

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