Half Life is a must have game for any and all FPS fans. It's the best FPS title to be released so far. It's fun..
User Rating: 10 | Half-Life PC
.. addictive and has a fantastic story to boot. First off, the graphics in HL were, for it's time, absolutly gorgeous. The game and many of it's mods are still being widely played today, even though it's been out for 6 years. The game looks great. The weapon models are great, the player models were great, for it's time. Although now they don't look so great, especially compared to the HL2 player models. The AI is pretty good. The Aliens are nothing special but the marines will take cover, through grenades at you and try to flank you, making firefights more interesting cause if you take your eye off one enemy for a split second, they next thing you know is you have a shotgun pointed at you from behind. By that point it's too late. The levels have a lot of variety in them in how to progress. Sometimes you have to turn on a switch or unlock something to move through, other times you have to do a little jumping puzzle over gaps or with boxes and sometimes you have to just blast everything that movies. The storyline is fantastic. You are Gordon Freeman, a scientist that works at the Black Mesa Research Facility. Your current project is top secret and your into a testing phaze.. during that test.. something happens.. something goes frightfully wrong. Thats when all hell breaks loose. On top of the current problems, the government decides to send in some marines to "mop up" and make sure no one lives to tell the tale of what happened. There are scientists scattered throughout the place, some are lucky enough to survive the inital problem and then some are even luckier are have survived the initial marine clean up. These scientists can help you by unlocking areas for you. You also come across security guards, known as Barney, he carries a pistol and will help fight against enemies as well as getting you into otherwise unaccessable areas. There are vechiles you get to move, they are nothing special but they do add some variety other than running around shooting. Although Half Life is different from regular shooters in it's filled with puzzles. Some of the BIG enemies you can't kill with your own normal weapons. So you have to find other ways to get rid of them. At one part in the game, you can't.. you just have to sneak around it so it doesn't hear you. This is one fantastic game that combines puzzle solving with FPS and is done perfectly. On top of having this fantastic game, you also can download a LOT of different mods. There are some amazingly great single player mods out there, as well as multiplayer ones. Some of the big multiplayer mods, such as Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, and the ever popular Counter-Strike. These mods extend the live of Half Life a huge amount, altough the single player campaign of HL will take you a while to get through. It's a long, yet very fun game and if you don't own it, you can pick it up for a very cheap price now.
