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The Best Game EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! I got it 2 years ago and i still like it! I heard about this game from a friend of mine. It was expensive when me and my brother got it, but it was worth it! The sequels Opposing Force and Blue Shift are cool too except for the fact that Opposing Force had a couple bugs in it, and Blue Shift was kinda short, but all of them are cool. If you don't like having a good time, you would not like this. So buy it if you like games that are puzzling but full of action...

This Game is KILLER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first saw it aon the shelfs I thought it was a Sure fire hit...I wanted it for years and I finally bought it! This game has a great story line, monsters from out of this world, Bosses that take more than one try to kill, or run from. Graphics are cool because the mouths move when you talk to people. This game also comes with a tutorial for the Newbies out there too! Then When you beat it...There are three different Expansion packs with Three different viwpoints of the disaster that strikes in the game! I Highly Reccomend it for the Hardcore Gamer!!!

If you don't buy this, you haven't lived life.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This IS the BEST PC game EVER. Okay? Got it? It is. Buy it!

For you picky people...

Pros: AMAZING graphics for its time (1998)
Good AI
Plenty of weapons
Extremely detailed models and levels
All other HL-based games (OpFor, Counter-Strike, etc.) are free (except some, like Blue Shift)
Understandable storyline, very comprehensive
Skeletal animation for added realism (there's joints and stuff in every model)

Cons:
It was made a long time ago.
The multiplayer version is really hectic and crazy, unless your in teamplay servers.
It is very scary, I got soooo freaked out when I first played this.

This is also one of those games that are really frustrating at times, when you just say "fudge this" and don't play it for another week or so because your stuck or keep getting killed and stuff.

OK. So... I know about opinions and stuff, but i'm telling you, this is not my opinion. Half Life IS the best PC game ever. It was rated game of the year by over 50 magazines and stuff, and PC Gamer rated it as "Best Game Ever."

*********WARNING**********
By the way, this is also the most pirated game too. Crackrs and hackers can generate random cd keys and use them to play this game without paying for anything, which means that if you buy this game, there will probably be a 25% chance or so that the key that came with your game will have been already used by a cheap@$$ hacker.

What can i say? just GREAT GAME !!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

posibly the best game i ever played !
this game is great, u may think u should just rent it, but dont.
This game is so long it took me bout 2 months to pass it.
there is a great storyline.
i played all of HL games and this is the best one.
for example in half life 1 u get to a radio, and a soldier says there to retreat. if u play opposing forse ull see this guy saying same thing to abort and same voice.
great story line, great wepons, great multiplayer.
trust me ull never get tired of this game.
GET THE GAME!!!
P.S.: you wont regret this.

Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You know, you shouldn't even have to read the reviews. If you see that this game has 4 1/2 stars, even though it was made way back in 98, you should know that its good. But good doesn't describe this game. Its better than great, excellent, or even outstanding. I'm going to have to say that this game is groundbreaking. Before this game, shooters were shooters. This game is a shooter that just happens to have a Final Fantasy quality storyline as well. And don't think that you'll be sitting around all day watching cinemas. No, the entire story is delivered to you in real time via other characters talking. *Note* This is not one game you want to play with the sound off! I'll now break the game up into 5 major categories, Graphics, Sound, Story, Gameplay, and overall fun.

Graphics are a biggy in a gamers life. Now adays with HL2 and Doom 3 out, were getting spoiled, and expect graphics like that when about 4% of all the nations PC's are capable of it. Half Life's graphics are very good, but you can easily see why it was made in 1998. The close up images are extremely pixelated, and blocky. But the overall movement is smooth, and if your rig can handle it, the cranked up Graphics are the best eyecandy available for games made in that time period. 18/20

Sound is also a major factor in this game. Creepy sounds coming from unseen creatures, characters talking and giving away the great story, and finally fantastic weaponry sound effects. 20/20

Story is one of the big plusses in this game, and rightfully so. Fantastic is all I will say. Fantastic story. Fantastic story telling. Fantastic Pace. Nuf said. 20/20

Gameplay is big in this game as well. The controls are phenomanal(sp.), the menu is easily accesable, and switching through weapons is a breeze. Only problem is that there are alot of buttons to get used to. Still, if your commited, this category is also a winner. 18/20

Finally, this is overall a very fun game. Stressed out? Tired from work? Then pop in Half Life and sit back. Blowing away monsters is a very good stress reliever. Add to that that the gory effects are great(blood splatters, organs and bones flying all over the place) if you are not turned off by blood. But if you are, why the hell are you playing an M game with a guy holding a gun on the front cover?! 20/20

Final score 96/100 which means this game is a rare gem that you should indulge upon immedietly. I can't wait for our new computer to arrive so I can get Half Life 2! Oh yeah. I forgot to tell you it has an absolute kick @$$ online mode!

An old game still worth buying...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Made in 98, but still better quality, play, and design than most games on the market in '05. Good storyline, great AI and graphics, not-overly aggressive system requirments, tons of add-ons available. Incredible single player mode, good weapon selection, and arguably one of the best FPS online games of all time. If you like HALO, you will like Halflife. Very similar, but no limit on how many weapons you can carry, and the levels aren't as repetative. (My biggest complaint about Halo, though it's obvious why, many of the levels and hallways are exact copies of one you've seen dozens of times already...gives a feeling of being lost, and even fed up at times.) Halo does have the edge as far as cars and what not though. I also recommend Halflife 2, the sequel to what I'm talkin about here... INSANE graphics and gameplay.

(XP User) A series of unfortunate incidents...luckily

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fans of dedicated single-player "first person shooter" games who've never played this game before should definitely not pass it up. HL takes an utterly unoriginal idea for either games or movies and crafts an utterly unstoppable gaming experience. You play Gordon Freeman, who works in the bowels of an ultra-secret, underground research facility called "The Black Mesa". (Having played the game yet I'm still not sure what's supposed to be going on in BM - it's what happens that matters.) Oozing high-tech, the facility is host to another dimension when you/Freeman accidentally...do something that tears a whole in the fabric of our own - allowing beings from that other world to enter ours.

Now, if you think that these otherworldly denizens are peaceful beings intent on fostering cross-dimensional love, or that your fellow human beings will enter the Black Mesa unarmed intent on warmly welcoming these beings to our world, I'm afraid you've picked up the wrong game entirely. For in the bowels of "Black Mesa" you'll confront howling dog things, flying crabs, alien-zombified versions of your colleagues, gigantic aliens that breathe fire through their fists, aliens that hang from ceilings (and entrap their victims using these vine-looking things) and squads of human special forces troops intent on killing everything that moves. If the above attracts you because you think it may be the setting that elevates the nobility of the human existence, I should warn you to look elsewhere - for in "Half Life", you'll find yourself acting indiscriminately with a 9mm automatic, a submachine gun, grenades and (most regrettably of all) a nasty crowbar; you'll make few friends and find yourself (for the most part) alone and (not infrequently) exiled to ventilation ducts (again with the ducts!!) to avoid getting shot at by humans, or burned, bitten, bolted or tongue-bathed by aliens. Complex problem solving skills (as much as marksmanship or bullet-saving) are crucial in this game - in which your enemies have above-average levels of AI. There are unfortunately times when a level may be hung up by the failure to achieve some specific mission-goal, but this is on the whole a game in which the goals are sufficiently complex to make you feel cool for achieving them, yet not so complex as to be impossible to solve. The settings are fantastic - from the vast to claustrophobic. The game is long - uncommitted gamers may find it tedious - but the scope of design here rewards those who keep up with it.

I ran this game on an XP-equipped P4, with a 64MB AGP card, and had no problems (other than those involving the evil aliens and homicidal fellow humans). Graphics and sound were smooth, and I suffered no CTD's.

Too frustrating for me, interesting, but not fun. Half life is past its half life

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Maybe its me, but Half Life is too crude to be an engaging play. Been meaning to play it for years, but never got to it. I played Half Life 2 first, and that is simply the best experience in gameing I've ever had. It is brilliant. I can see how 2 is a derivative and continuation of 1.

But after a few hours, I simply could not take the constant jumping/missing/dying. And the totally totally obscure paths through each scene. The long passages with no health. The obscure mazes and constant times of being squished. After a while, I became so frustrated I simply stopped playing the game.

There were some jump/fall/sqish episodes where replayed the silly jump part over 100 times. I think that the playability is dated, just like the graphics. The peculiar movement, where you always run, and have to press shift just to walk and not fall or overshoot where you're trying to get to, is simply not a current way to control movement.

All in all, a charming prequel to the best game ever. I'm sure this game was truly groundbreaking 7-8 years ago when it first shipped. But by today's standards, its not for me at least. I cannot wait for more from Valve, as they are fantastic. But this one, I'll pass forever

The best.....nuff' said

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Half Life Revolutionized PC gaming. It is one of the greatest IF not The best pc game ever made. It has bin said that from almost every Pc Mag or Game mag. I was a few to own this masterpiece when it first hit stores and all I can say is...wow

This game really changed about the FPS gaming. It just made me think different about FPS. It truly is a masterpiece. I won't spoil this games amazing story of the g man's adventure. I wont even say how good this game is you just have to play it for your self.

The graphics for that time was amazing and so will the upcoming HALF LIFE 2 BABY! nuff said

The gameplay.......You're a moron if You acctually think I'm gonna go into that since we already no how incredible the game is....Nuff' said

The story is what makes this game...a game..it's not just any shooter...it's history in the making..well for games atleast...

I'm just gonna make this short and sweet for you...

THIS GAME IS AMAZING!

Of course this deserves a

5 out of 5 stars!!!!!!!

Amazing...Just amazing...Nuff said get the game before HL2 comes out..

Lates..

I don't know about this one.................................

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: May 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love unreal series but, when I played half-life....well....I guess it just has no adventure to it I mean the graphics are just okay....same goes for sounds, music cool....gameplay boring............pckeybpard controls comfortable, but I think this game is just okay...........not worth it to me, I ran it on my new state-of-the-art-dell computer, I'm not sure about this one, but I haven't beat it yet, so when I get farther into the game, I'll add-on to the review!

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