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BEST GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome, I started the game, five minutes later i was hooked. I played the game for 5 hours strait and would have played more if my dad didn't need the computer. This game has awesome graphics(with a 3d card)and keeps you on the edge of your seet . This is a must have

Oh. My. God.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Revolutionary. This is one of the best games I ever played. The skeletal movement system and A.I. make for a very awesome time. It's long and kind of boring in some parts, but its really fun. I recomend Blue Shift and Opposing Force, as they add to the fun and tie together nicely with the story. The High-Def models that come with BS are ok, but I found out that the ones at http://ambientimpact.hl-improvement.com/index.htm were better because they have moving eyes, 5 fingers, and a much higher poly count. BUY THIS GAME

not compatible with Windows XP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: March 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I hate to say this? but this game is not compatible with Windows XP OS, so owners of newest Dell computers have to install compatible OS.

Genre-buster

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you're into First person shooters, this game is a must have. From an interesting and complex plot to enemy AI that will keep you on your toes throughout the whole game, Half-Life is well thought out and designed and a lot of fin to play. The only drawback is the poor net performance, it's all but unplayable on a 56.6K modem, so if it's internet connectivity you're looking for, Unreal tournament or Q3A might be better choices

Simply brilliant!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 14, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Burn and smash the other games like Heretic, Doom, Blood, and Duke Nukem and send them to Hell! This game is the bomb and is a must buy game for expierenced gamers.

Oh my god! What a GREAT GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 18, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Half Life is not just an ordinary "shoot and ask questions later" game. This is completely different.

-you confront very intelligent creatures -you have scientists and guards helping you and which are crucial to your survival -you have loads of surprises and things to experiment in Half Life

Even though I don't have a top notch computer, I enjoy it very much (I bought it in May and I see play it again and again! )

Go ahead and buy it now!

And don't forget the expansion pack, "Opposing Force"

The Best First Person Shooter to-date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I popped in the CD and the intro started playing, I was stunned. At first I didn't realize that I could move around in the tram! The CD was playing some eirie music (all the music is in CD track format), and the computerized voice of the tram was quietly talking in the background, telling me about the Black Messa research facility, and all that was done there. As I was slowly going down the track, I was looking out all the windows, watching special robots going into radiation pools, scientists running this way and that (about the size of ants at times), going through one huge vault door after another, then watching them ominously close behind me... all this creating a sort of sense of doom. Finally, I arrived at my destination. And a security gaurd greeted me somewhat comically, and let me know I was late today. It was an odd wakeup from the sense of dread. Everything unfolds like a book. The scripted sequences in which you could move around were very well executed. The sound was breathtaking. I could hardly beleive my ears. The programers obviously wanted some of the best sound to date when they created this masterpiece. For example: When you shoot your glock (SWEET gun) in a large, cavernous room, it will reverberate all over the walls. If you shoot within a cramped, stuffy air vent, it will be a dead thud of a sound, as you pump a few rounds into a crab thing in front of you. And so on. It is simply amazing what they have done with the sound engine. The graphics, though a little outdated now, still stand on their own two feet. And the engine runs quite well in high resolutions, even when in a VERY large area. (e.g. a broken down elevator shaft with a 500' drop, with a high roof to boot!) The AI is awsome. I loooved the "grunts" (government guys) and assasins. It was frightening how intelegent they were. I found myself strafing around corners frequently emptying magazines at them, while they filled me with led, and I, running for help, as they tracked me down, covering eachother. And I, still running, listening to them chatting over their headsets. The little cute puppy dog alien things were really cool. Sometimes I would walk around a corner, and find one looking at me for a split second (taking in the large arsenal at my disposal... by then covering my whole body;), then making a cute little raptor type sound jumping around the corner (and note, the sound is all echoing as it should, making it seem even more eirie). As I run around the next corner chasing it, I find 5 others, waiting to eat what may become my carcase. The only complaint I have is the violence. For crying out loud... what's the point? I know you can "turn it off", but there is still the corpses lying around in pools of blood, and bloody hand prints around them. I know, you may think I'm wimpy. No, it doesn't bother me. I just don't see what the point to such things is. And, it gives games a bad name as well. All I ask is when you turn the content control on, make it a little more efficient. I appreciate their thought that some parents don't want all the blood and guts... as comically like Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail as it may be. :)

Other than that, I HIGHLY recommend this game... it's great, I loved it. And if you get stuck, it's your own fault. You aren't doing something right. Valve made just the right combination of difficulty, and... whatever else it takes to make it possible to go on. I found myself stuck in a couple of parts, and then realizing how stupid I was not to think of whatever it may have been.

Superior to all first person shooters!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 17, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life is a really great game. It applies a mysterious story line with a large world to explore, a huge bestiary of enemies and more weapons than you can handle. Half-Life blasts you into the character, a scientist, Gordan Freeman, and everything is great...until the experiment goes horribly wrong! Now with no friends to turn to, monsters everywhere, and a military death squad out to kill everything related to the project, can you escape before you wind up in a body bag? 5-stars all the way! *****

Sick, twisted...I love it!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is definitely a hundred steps past Quake and others of its type. The AI is great. The evolving story is great. The fight against the Special Forces team is nerve wrackingly great. However, all this greatness became stale, I never bothered to finish the game. The game just seemed to grow old after a time. Maybe it needs something more to carry the player through?

Bad CD Key

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The shipping was fast, but CD key did not work for online play.
(Day of Defeat rules!)

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