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Easy to understand, fun to play.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you love Tomb Raider Anniversary then you will love this. The game is very easy to catch onto. The first-person Shooter style is well done and I found the storyline compelling.

The colleters edition is hours and hours of entertainment and well worth the money.

Fun, but by now way outdated.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got the platinum collection when it came out. The single player games are fun. The multiplayer TFC is the best multiplayer shooter hands down, but since HL2 came out TFC was shutdown. I assume HL2 had some similar form of online play to TFC.

horrible weapons and graphics

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I wasted my money. This game is old and weak.

OH NO!... It's the Marines.... GET EM!....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Even a Scinance Nerd can be a Action Hero... And Half-Life is the first time I've ever played a game that made me feel Like i was directing an Action flick on par with Die Hard, Aliens, and Terminator all at the same time.

The Story was fun, the Action waqs well plentiful, the Puzzles where logical and well layed out, and the it worked on steam so that i could play a few of the mods made for it.

I got this package for jsut the original Half-Life but all the rest that comes with it is a nice bonus...

NO STEAM HALF LIFE!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game it comes with 5 game. hl, cs, tfc, blue shift , and opposing force. To me the best thing about this set is it is completely steam free!!. You don't need to go online and register with steam to play these games. Now about the games if you have never played Half-Life you are missing out, it's a great game it is now getting a little out dated on the graphics end but if you are a true fps gamer you'll like this game not to mention you'd be playing a pice of gaming history. Half Life is a great game and probly one of the only games that has so many usser created mods out there that make the game worth buying all in it self you can go to moddb of planent half life and download some really great half life mods that add hours and hours of fun to this game after you beat it.

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Half-Life is as good as the new games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I found Half-Life to be as good as many current games out now. It reminded me of Soldier of Fortune 2 and Doom 3 (but with the lights on). I was very satisfied. The only problem I had was the firewall, I had to open some ports to play online.

The best first person shooter to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

half life is without a doubt the best fps i have played. i currently own half life, half life 2 and half life 2: episode one. while the sequels are fantastic, playing the first of the series will not only give you all the background for half life 2 but also give you a great gaming experience.

in half life you are gordon freeman, a theoretical physicist working in the black mesa complex. you start out walking around, making your way to the anomolous materials lab to conduct an experiment your team has been working on for a while. there is a lot of forshadowing, not only because you know you are supposed to kill aliens, but from all the scientist mentioning a "resonance cascade", meaning a disruption in the experiment. and of course a cascade is created, tearing a hole in space creating a portal to a world called "xen". the main objective, however, is to get out of the complex, which is easier said than done. black mesa is ENORMOUS, and has many side areas to explore with traps and bad guys galore. during the first part of the game you spend a lot of your time killing things with a crowbar and a pistol, discovering the depth of the damage caused by the cascade. you then hear of a rescue operation involving the military where the main objective is to get to the surface to be saved. soon you find out that the "rescue op" turns out to be a clean up where all evidence is dto be destroyed, including witnesses. with all hell against you, you need to find out what happened, how to fix it and stay alive through it all.

the story of the game is very captivating, with no cutscenes and no long drawn out monologues it is a perfect way to keep the action going while keeping the player informed. the graphics, while seemingly dated now, are still good and can be better when used with the blue shift upgrade. the weapons are well balanced, having a great selection of close, mid and long ranged guns and a couple wild cards that can get you out of tight spots, including a experimental weapon that can take down helicopters with a charged shot.

another great thing about this game is that there is no one strategy that will take you through the game. some places require a run and gun tactic where there are too many to kill and you need to just take out as many as you can as you sprint towards a door so you can lock them out. at other times there are slower parts where ducking and hiding behind barriers is the best way to get through an area. throw some puzzle areas and insane detours, this make for an incredible and satisfying experience. and this game will not be 4 or 5 hours. i have beaten the game many times and even with knowing all the tricks and shortcuts it takes me a good 12 to 15 hours if i'm rushing through.

the other games in this package are just as entertaining. opposing force puts you in the role of one of the soldiers that are to "clean up" the situation. giving you weapons not found in the original half life, including alien weapons raning from an animal that spits out grenades to an alien with a tongue that acts like the hookshot in zelda, opposing force itself is a rather long and satisfying game. blue shift is the black mesa disaster through the eyes of a black mesa security guard. while significantly shorter than the other two the game is once again just as satisfying. the half life games are a must to anyone who is a fan of shooters. if you have played half life 2 without playing this game then i would still suggest it to you, while the graphics aren't as good the story and action is still as intense and you will be in for a longer game. and like a good movie, you will want to play this game again and again, just to get all the details of the story that you might have missed before.

half-life games are the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like half-life 1 and 2 i think number1 was the best because
it was longer and more interesting because im a person who
likes the fighting the mutant things. although h2 has better grahics.i think s h3 should b made coz it would selll well.

all da best aidan

The best first person shooter ever.. this game started it all!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Mention first person shootears and this is probably the first game that will come to your mind. its' tht damn good!

i first played this game in 2000.. asked my sister from american to get it for me. was so excited after playing uplink(the half life demo) that i just could'nt wait..and as soon as i installed it onto my computer.. i was hooked.. i had never seen anything like this.. i mean, duke nukem and doom 2 were appetisers compared to this baby!!

okay.. about the game :

WEAPONS : you start off with a crowbar and slowly move on to advanced guns like the machine gun,RPG,M-16(aaaaah)magnum,gauss,etc. But the RPG is my all time fav. Guiding missiles with ur mouse controls.. i mean.. how cool is that?
i used to mess around with the missiles half of the time.. just for fun:)
unlike doom or duke nukem. guns ARE'NT Just lying somewhere. You're supposed to collect most of them from the dead enemies, which makes it so real. i was surprised when i got the machine gun after killing one of the soldiers. i was expecting it to be lying somewhere, waiting for me to pick it up.. or a miracle! You might find it funny but these are just some of the minor details which earlier games did'nt have.. guess the guys at valve were taking this a little seriously,which is a good thing.

ENEMIES : the best AI ever. the soldiers, the crabheads, the 'oh so cool' apache helicopters, the huge monsters at the end of the game.. ooooh(drooling)..!!!
every enemy was detailed and hit back at you. they don't wait for you to make a move. If the see you coming, u better be prepared. a slight noise and they're gonna come back at you with everything they've got. they reload and use ammunition in the same way tht u do.

STORY : wow!! breathtaking.. this game is totally story driven. right from the beginning. You're probably thinking wht's so good about the story.. every game has a story,probably even better than this one. But i dont think any game out there allowed you to be a part of the story like this one did. it is so intense and it just sucks you in.
There is this one part of the story called APPREHENSION, where the kidnap gordon freeman. I've showed this scene to my friends over and over and over again. These 2 soldiers are carrying you and you have no guns with you nothing.. You just wait for their coneversation to get over. You have no idea what they are going to do to you, what's coming next.. It is one of the coolest scenes ever. And it's not CGI. It's actually the game. You're in it..
You actually would want to complete the game just to know what happens at the end. I knew that the moment i defeated the final monster, there was something bigger coming. And that is exactly what happened.. One of the BEST and the coolest ENDINGS for an FPS EVER!!!

To sum it up.. i would give this game 5 stars all the way for its cool factor and its originality. I have'nt played half life 2, quake 4,F.E.A.R. and doom 3 yet.. but my new PC is on the way..should have it in a week.. an athlon 3500, 1 GB ram and a 6600 nvidia geforce.. have already bought the games and cant wait to play half life 2.. it has been rated game of the year and i'm sure they already have a platinum edition out for it yet. They are just taking games to the next level!!
Thank you valve. We'll never forget this game.. It is a classic!!

One of the best games ever made, now for a bargain

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Half Life is truly one of the best games ever made, in my opinion, second only to Half Life 2. I won't reiterate the details which have been so well advertised; I'll just confirm them.

But that's not all; they're throwing in the best mods made for it. I strongly recommend playing Opposing Force and Blue Shift to see more than one side of the Black Mesa incident.

$20? Definitely a deal.

Note that the CD keys in this package can also be used with a Steam account.

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