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Let Down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 27
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Half-life was the best game ever made. I expected Opposing Force to be great, but it wasn't. It wasn't worth the money I paid for it. It was way too short and easy.

Opposing Force

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 26
Date: February 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you want a game that is well planned, has great AI, super graphics, and an outstanding story, you will want to by Half-Life's Opposing Force. It is also great for mutiplayer.

For Hardcore HL fans only.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I, myself, thought that the original Half Life was phenomenal. It had a good premise and lots of great effects. Opposing Force is basically a mock-copy of the original Half-life, except for the fact the graphics have gotten worse! I don't know why the grahics aren't as good. My computer ran the original Half-life with perfection.

Disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is far too short! Not as fun as the original, and a bad value

BAHH! They ALL DO IT!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: December 17, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Please welcome Half-Life: Opposing Force to the crowded arena of expansion packs. In this follow-up to the sweetest shooter ever made, one plays the enemy Marines and has to join forces with all the annoying soldiers that you strived to kill in the first game. That's the short version, at least. The game is good, though not even half as long as the original. It is also mad easy compared to the first game, and vets will finish this game in a day. Multiplayer is, like the first game, fantastic, and is great fun to play on a LAN. So why did i give it 3 stars? Because, by itself the game is great. But compared to Half-Life: Game of the Year, it pales horribly. One of the big problems with expansion packs is that the developers give the job to another team. Thankfully, Op Force is not a disaster, and is great fun for the day it takes to beat it. But, like other expansions, it can't match the pure excellence of the original game. I can't understand why the creators pass their games off like this. Diablo Hellfire was the perfect example of total junk. The first was superb. The expansion was a rehash. This is the case with Op Force. It's the same game. New stuff, but the same game. This is either good or bad, depending on your opinion, but to me, this game is a novel little target practice session.

Should you buy Op4?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First off I've been playing HL since 4/1/99. And I've played it every single day since then. It's simply the best shooter. But right now there is a rush of good FPS comeing in like q3 and UT... so is it worth it to pay for the HL expansion? Well I was kinda disspointed...I mean the weapons are unbalanced now to many BFG. Which make it a newbie game. And major lag on Won.Net Multiplayer servers...like 300. Some ppl I heard have a 50 mhz p3 1128 RAM TNT2 and DSL connection get up to 250 lag ick. So despite all that Its still a good game if you liked HL you probably like op4.

BTW single player is short =[

HalfLife is Better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Opfor should be a 5-star game. Everything but the game difficulty and story are great. The visual scenes are great. The weapons wonderful! The opposing monsters are tough and the 'Black' forces are pure cool (one rolls on the ground and comes up shooting). But there just doesn't seem to be any difficult areas or tricky puzzles to solve. There are some technical problems too (atleast on my machine). The weapon sight moves on its own (it finds the target). I set the skill level to '9' but that didn't help. Levels take a long time to load. I thought my machine was hung on a couple. Last, some areas of the game I could make the game crash by doing certain moves.

Wow, this is great... what, it's over?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved the interaction and command of a fireteam (4 Marines including yourself.). I also liked the new weapons, and the sort of us-vs-them thingie that really brought the game to life. Follows faithfully in the footsteps of an all time great, Halflife. But.... I finished it in 8 hours on medium difficulty. Too short, too much money for an add-on. If they had made it a stand alone, it would have been MUCH too short. If they had made it a $25 add-on, it still would have been a little short.

WHAT? That was the last boss?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: February 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life is the coolest game I have ever played. You know, creatures eveywhere, great strategy game, how do I get over there kinda game. Unfortunently when I played Opposing Force I was dissapointed because Half-Life was a long game while Opposing Force was so...well, SHORT! Once I beat the last boss I was so happy thinking, "Wow that was a tuffy! Cant' wait for the next", but then the game ended! I expected it to be a lot better than that! The thing I thought would be awsome in it was that you could lead a "squadron" of grunts and medics and soldiers. The most you ever get to come with you is 3. 3! That's not a squadron. The new guns were cool though. The graphics were good too but thats about it. So if you wanna get a game DON'T get this.

It's not Half-Life...but it's good...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 44 / 47
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I purchased Half-Life shortly after it's release in 1998 and built a system just to play this one title...I was not disappointed. More recently, my anticipation had been building over the past several months as I watched and waited for Opposing Force to be released. I bought it, loaded it, played it and conquered it...all too quickly. Valve presented the gaming world with some pretty big shoes to fill, and it seems as though Gearbox has made the add-on to the 1998 Game of the Year less difficult to complete. I thrive on the complex puzzles that level designers create (i.e., System Shock II). And, while the alien AI has been enhanced, the overall game play (when compared to it's parent product) doesn't live up to my level of anticipation or the hype that normally surrounds a Sierra product. Also, I know that it is only 40% the size of the original game, but I paid as much for this as I did Half-Life. I have to admit, though, that the multiplayer aspect and additional maps are right on the money. Some of the best death-matching you can buy is right here (until Q III is released). And, overall, the visuals were excellent throughout the Black Mesa compound. I am disappointed, though, that I only caught 1 glimpse of Gordon Freeman. Bottom line: buy it and enjoy: blowing things up, cracking skulls and playing with exotic weapons...or your collection of Half-life maps and mods will go unfinished...until 2001 (Half-Life 2! ).

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