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H/\lf-Life's Opposing Force Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 23 / 27
Date: February 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ok, so you jsut got done beating the final boss of Half-Life, and your thirsty for more?Well, how about returning to Black Mesa as one of the Military Bad Guys sent to kill Freeman? This game was incredible, it had the graphics of HL, new monsters, a great plot, and much more!You're now Adrian Shephard, colonel of the army that has been sent to black mesa. you get to control a squad of highly advanced recruits.they are the medic, engineer and soldier. In OpFor you get stranded in the facility and have to get out.Im not going to say anything more, but go buy this game!Its great!

This is a dream come true!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Finally I get to kill all those pesky guards and sciencetists that ticked me off in the original! And best of all new guns to kill them with! Very very cool guns. And you have this little nifty alien device that you can use as a rope/grappling hook tool. This FINALLY tells you who the mysterious G-Man is and answers some of the other questions the original left you hanging to answer. And I love working with the soldier AI against the new smart-ass "Alien Corps" AI in furious battles. Very fun and frightening. But to some the game up in 2 simple words: BUY NOW!

It's gonna be GREAT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 42
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Half-Life is possibly the single best game I've ever played in my entire life. I've owned it since before it was popular. This game is just like Half-Life, but it is a whole new twist, It will definately be a great addition to any Half-Life lovers software collection!

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 37
Date: November 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is awesome! It has a great new twist and it is that YOU are one of the soldiers.A mission objective is to kill Gordon Freeman, the person you played in the origional. Tons of new stuff, new monsters...It's awesome!

If you liked Half-Life you'll love this!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 49
Date: November 17, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a great add-on to the Best Game ever! Half-Life was so awesome, It won over 40 awards within a few months! This has gotta be awesome, and it even has an awesome new twist!

This is Half-Life I like!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed "Opposing Force" even more than the original Half-Life! I thought it was better being an army grunt, and also having a much wider selection of guns and explosives. The best level would have to have been "The Package", where you get to command a group of your fellow soldiers through a literal army of black Ops people.

As always, could have been just as good without all of the gore. Also, this game had plenty of coursing in it. I'm not sure why they didn't include this in their rating, since it's obviously there. Just a warning to let you know that the rating of 17 and up is properly given. Another thing I was disappointed with was the plot. You never find out what happens to yourself or Freemen, you never find out who the G-man is who tracks you in both Half-Life and Op Force, and you never find out why the Government sent you and your buddies in, and then decided to kill you with MORE army grunts. Maybe I'm missing something here. I hope all my questions will be answered in Half-Life 2.

All in all, it's a game, right along there with Half-Life, that is sure to became a classic very soon. So what are you waiting for? Buy it!

A fitting addition!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just got finished playing this add-on to Half Life, one of the greatest computer games ever. Like the first game, it's incredibly addictive and a heck of a lot of fun with the new weapons, aliens and Black Op forces. And, oh, those Black Ops... battling them is one of the biggest joys of this game. The aliens are great, but the Black Ops require more strategy, and tend to make you jump in your seat more, especially when one of those nimble, fast females start popping in and out on you. Of the aliens, I like the new shock troopers, with their roach gun the best. They'll react appropriately if you toss a grenade their way (they'll run away from it) and just seem to have better AI than other aliens in the game. All of them are good, though. The new weapons are a lot of fun, too. I loved the alien grenade launcher and the displacer gun that allows you to visit the weird worlds of Xen.

Complaints about the game are few. There are sound problems that cause it to repeat like a broken record over and over again at times. I also encountered graphics problems when re-loading a game after I had been using the sniper rifle. Third, it's too short! I wanted more, more, more! Finally, and I have to mention this, the price. It costs as much as a full game. It seems pricey for an add-on pack. I don't feel ripped-off by it, but if it had been longer maybe I would have found the bitter pill of the price a bit easier to swallow.

Still, a *great* add-on to a *great* game. :)

leave your friends, family, anyone to play this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

i have not had much time to play this game. I just bought it a few days ago and im already hoping i had no life to begin with. I just wish i could sever all connections with everyone i know to play. This game is only about 40% of the original, but considering i beat the original 3 times over, i should have no problem spending months and maybe years on this game. Half-Life: Op Force has a new twist to the original. Remember those military death squads that ticked you off so much in the first game? now you play one of them, and even get to battle it out with mr freeman himself. This game introduces a new alien race, many new weapons, and more characters. One of these new characters is a fat police guard person. Also included are many many new multiplayer maps. I guess winning every game award on the planet for half life wasn't enough for valve. Thank god.

What can I say that's not already been said?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks. Even all this time later, I've seen few things to equal Half-Life, and the expansion is just as good. The new weapons are fun, especially the amphibious alien symbiote that fires corrosive vegetables (yes, really), the heavy machine gun (which I nicknamed the Hamburger Gun, because of what it can do to enemies with a few seconds of fire) It's also a great deal more scary than the original. One truly terrifying sequence involves going into pitch black steam tunnels infested with a hive of giant beetle things. You have to rely on your thermal vision goggles to see anything, and because of the short range, you can't see anything of the enemies until they're right on top of you. And that's when the battery runs out....truly terrifying. The "Where's that running noise coming from...." (looks up) moment in the garage is another example. The sense of chaos brought up in the first Half-Life is built on well...you get to see how the confused, brutal multi-way battles between the alien invaders, a new force of cyclopean aliense with symbiotic weaponry, the stranded remains of the military task force and a band of black-clad assassins determined to leave no witnesses progresses to a highly explosive conclusion. (the firefight in the warehouse is nothing short of incredible) Also nice are the little tie-ins with the original. You get to repeat the infamous dam raid from HL, from the other side, relive a twisted version of the "Welcome to Black Mesa" tram ride from the intro to HL and witness Freeman leaving for Xen. Oh, and check out the "Employee of the Month" picture early on in the game.

I could go on for hours, but let me sum it up with this question. If you don't have Half-Life and it's expansion pack, why on earth not? You're missing out on something that's more than a classic. It will be a piece of gaming mythology.

The BEST add-on!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played this game last summer after having finished Half-Life. I wanted MORE so I tried this out. Being a soldier, nice twist, nice change of perspective! And this game was VERY good, intense, scary and full of new stuff. All the new features really make this an awesome game, such as the new weapons, new enemies, nightvision instead of flashlight. Thats a good thing, cos it allows you to spot the enemies way further ahead and give them the 'sniper treatment'. I also liked that one could "team up" with the other marines, and also use the medic and the mechanic guy for useful services. Unfortunately they tend to die very soon cos they are hard to protect. The sound is as from HL very good and scary. Very frightening when you stand in some dark corner and can hear some creepy monster/alien sounds near you. The new monsters are very cool, as are the new weapons, including a nifty sniper gun. The drill instructors at the very beginning - hazard course - are hilarious, make sure you play that through. Some complaints... Well, I cant think of none, the game isnt as long as Half-Life of course but still it will take more than 3-4 days for you to run through. The final boss was very hard to beat and I had to check planethalflife's site to get some hints. Otherwise, this game offered a very nice change of perspective, slightly cooler being Corpral Adrian Shepherd then a scientist in theoretical physics... This game also proves that a GOOD storyline can beat many newer games with better graphics that lacks such an intriguing story and concept that HL has. Exciting, scary and a must have!

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