Half-Life

great game, i understand why its so well known. i usually try to stray as far away from shooters as i can but this is the first one ive played where i can actually get invested into the lore, which is a big thing for me. also gordon is cool

10/10 the game that got me into gaming. My favorite game of all time. I still try to play HL and HL2 once a year just for the fun of it. Game still holds up in 2024.

Half-Life is an amazing game as most everybody already knows, revolutionary for its time and still holds up today. Highly recommend all of the Half-Life games.

Believe it or not, even though I have played countless hours of Wolfenstein, DOOM, Quake, etcetera, even Half-Life 2, this is my first time playing Half-Life and, even though it's an older game, I am blown away. I highly recommend this game for anyone who loves FPS game. You're welcome!

Good morning and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. This automated train is provided for the security and convenience of the Black Mesa Research Facility personnel. The time is 08:47 AM. Current topside temperature is 93 degrees, with an estimated high of one hundred and five. The Black Mesa compound is maintained at a pleasant 68 degrees at all times. This train is inbound from Level 3 Dormitories to Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities. If your intended destination is a high-security area beyond Sector C, you will need to return to the Central Transit Hub in Area 9 and board a high security train. If you have not yet submitted your identity to the retinal clearance system, you must report to Black Mesa Personnel for processing before you will be permitted into the high security branch of the transit system. Due to the high toxicity of material routinely handled in the Black Mesa compound, no smoking, eating, or drinking are permitted within the Black Mesa Transit System. Please keep your limbs inside the train at all times. Do not attempt to open the doors until the train has come to a complete halt at the station platform. In the event of an emergency, passengers are to remain seated and await further instruction. If it is necessary to exit the train, disabled personnel should be evacuated first. Please stay away from electrified rails, and proceed to an emergency station until assistance arrives. A reminder that the Black Mesa Hazard Course decathlon will commence this evening at nineteen hundred hours in the Level 3 Facility. The semifinals for high-security personnel will be announced in a separate Secure Access transmission. Remember, more lives than your own may depend on your fitness. Do you have a friend or relative who would make a valuable addition to the Black Mesa team? Immediate openings are available in the areas of Materials Handling and Low-Clearance Security. Please contact Black Mesa Personnel for further information. If you have an associate with a background in the areas of theoretical physics, biotechnology or other high tech disciplines, please contact our Civilian Recruitment Division. The Black Mesa Research Facility is an equal opportunity employer. A reminder to all Black Mesa Personnel: Regular radiation and biohazard screenings are a requirement of continued employment in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Missing a scheduled urinalysis or radiation check-up is grounds for immediate termination. If you feel you have been exposed to radioactive or other hazardous materials in the course of your duties, contact your Radiation Safety Officer immediately. Work safe, work smart. Your future depends on it. Now arriving at Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities. Please stand back from the automated door and wait for the security officer to verify your identity. Before exiting the train, be sure to check your area for personal belongings. Thank you and have a very safe and productive day.

This game was perfect everything about I personally don't like FPS games but this is one I will always love. the game may be old but has lot of things that new games are missing. If you interested please get this game!

Haha funny scientists but it gets real intense when the army shows up

It is one hell of a game, Ive had no hiccups or stutters and Ive had zero issues with the game this far. If you plan on getting it and see this review, please get it because it is just amazing. And for a game from 1998 it handles like a modern Valve game almost.

very good game, story wise and gameplay

When i started this game I was a really confused about the creatures you fight in and i thought to myself why am i playing this. I personally think this game is overrated but its still a chill and decent game. One of the first fps games there was and that's why its so popular. Half life and doom brought the future of fps games. I mean the gameplay itself is very advanced and kind of shocking really when thinking that this game was made in 1998 when i played further, i started liking this game and i can say that its a really good first person story game. I do recommend this masterpiece if you like older games. Btw the first game on steam.

One of my all time faves, bricked by Valve 25 years later. Seriously I can't press play or anything in the main menu without a crash. Steam Support says there is no fix and nothing they can do.

Half-life is the reason that a lot of the shooters that you adore are here today. Half-life doesn't feel like most shooters; most shooters feel like Half-life. It takes inspiration from all the great places. Like DOOM and Quake. But it twists it in a way that feels really unique. The gameplay is still fun to me many years after this game's release.

This is a monumental game in everything that it produced. Valve is here because of Half-life. Team fortress was a mod of half-life as was counter strike. Left 4 dead began as a mod for counter strike. So that's 4 of the best game series of all time spawned from this. Not to mention the platform that you're using to read this and play your games. Beyond all the blabbering of how important this game is to all gaming, which I'm sure you're tied of hearing, the game itself is still good even without acknowledging what the game has done. It stands on its own.

its a genius groundbreaking monolith. literally the godfather of modern shooter games. half life 2 is my favorite game of all time and ive made it through black mesa but never fully completed hl1 until now. tows the line between genius and at times incredibly archaic and frustrating. but thats the charm of a late 90s game. masterpiece.

Half-Life is what pretty much laid the ground work for what a linear scripted first person shooter is, and despite it’s age continues to be the textbook definition of how one should play out.
Being an amalgamation of sci-fi ideas, movie references, and the Quake engine, Half-Life retains that arcade feeling trough and trough. Aside from the scripted introduction, once the game properly starts, you’re free to keep moving until you reach the very end, blasting all in your way and caring very little for the scenery and detail, however where it draws you in is in the areas most other shooters commonly ignored.
Having a dedicated walk button, The game want’s you to take things slow from time to time.
Take in the soundscape, explore a little, interact with the environment. While games like Duke 3D and other build games toyed with their own attempts at creating realistic environments, they always defaulted to older shooter tropes. Stats screens, end level switches, more abstract feeling levels.
Half-Life doubled down on immersiveness, and it is one long noodle only separated with loading screens. While most areas are distinct from each other, they connect in logical ways, and the game even accounts for other NPC’s traveling with you trough them.
While Half-Life itself can be pretty abstract once you start really thinking about the way which things work within the facility, it sells enough of that moment to moment immersion to draw the player in. It’s all about being contextual, big waterfalls create echoes within large damp underground facilities while aliens moan and screech in the background. You scavenge trough supply boxes to find that one magazine of ammo. You lead a small team of survivors to safety while fending off monsters.
Things like the fear mechanic for NPC’s, the bullsquid feeding mechanic, or even the fact there are multiple factions of NPC’s which are all hostile towards each other, are all mechanics which add flavor to the core experience of shooting endless bullet sponges within a big ass factory environment.
Of course It all breaks down time to time, you get stuck, something crushes you instantly for no reason at all, the NPC’s refuse to follow you up a flight of stairs. Half-Life definitely shows age, but all of it’s jank has somehow added to it’s identity.
The game is very deliberate with what it does, the detail is somewhat minimal, but all feels well thought out, everything feels like a place, even if the place follows a more abstract logic than our own world.
I think most people should play it at least once, because despite being so old, it still perfectly captures how videogames can tell stories with very little actually. There are other way more immersive titles which predate Half-Life, but they have a barrier of entry, Half-Life doesn't.

Great game, just find that the movement is a bit too slippery like walking on oil covered ice. It's fun otherwise.

An Absolute MUST!!!!
This game has been played so many times by me when growing up this is something of a pinacle of gaming I believe and feel a bit offended when someone does not know what these gaming series are. This is just absolute blast playing. This is about a story of Gorden Freeman and he is on the brink of destruction that he worked for a company called Black Mesa and it is your job to stop the turmoil that is happening around him in a experiment that went wrong facing numerous amount of enemies along the way. Finding out who you are and what you are supposed to do next. The game has been out for decades at this point and please do not let the graphics of this sway you. This is something of a master piece in it self. This is most definitely replayable. Just for the fact that this has been out for so long I would strongly recommend on a bundle sale that I have seen for these games before.

For it's age half-life is still a very good game with a very good story and it has some good bosses this game is really worth it to play it.

Half-Life is a game that everyone MUST experience in their life. The game may be dated but it holds up much better than most modern titles. I am forever nostalgic for this game so 10/10 just play it please.

absolutely awesome game with the free of man known as Gordon
I never finished this version but i did the Source version of it, i needed a tutorial to beat it but it was worth it so i know what happens in half life 2
overall 10/10
cant see how it could get better

it very good there's fun mods and very easy to mod and a good story to

amazing game. great ai and graphics considering it was made in 1998.

Great story, the gameplay is awesome and it's the second time I'm completing the game. A cute protagonist too.

Eb and flow. Deep story telling told at the pace of the player. Something that was rare back then and is still far too rare today. One of the one games I could play on my computer back in the early 2000's - unlike any other game in how optimised it ran and still runs. I must have played through this game more than 50 times. For a kid alone in their room, this was all you needed to feel ok. A fun feeling of exploration and progression despite the linear nature; a lengthy journey with variety of puzzles and action.

Encouraged me to play more classical games

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☑ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u want a big base and all the items
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Its OK
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☑ 9
☐ 10

Genuinely amazing. Great setpieces, surprisingly good combat.

Warning I played like 4/5 of this game thinking it was run and gun, save yourself the pain and do it tactically. Casual tip skip on a rail and use God mode on the interloper factory.

Half-Life is a great game and I can fully understand why fans are desperately waiting for a Half-Life 3. There were times were I would get a bit confused on what to do (usually I had to backtrack to a previous location after completing a puzzle), but this is easily overshadowed by all the great stuff such as the game play, which manages to be fun and not too repetitive thanks to the different weapons that each has a different use, the variety of enemies, and as mentioned before the puzzles. Over all Half-Life is an amazing game.

absolute gem for a 20 year old game, i love this game so much, the fanbase, the art design, literally everything. go try it out its amazing, and dont forget to spam the "E" button on the microwave on the start of the game!

Great VR game with the mod, and the game on its own is a timeless classic.
Also used to love playing this flatscreen back in the 2000s when I had a garbage PC with like a Pentium and integrated graphics lol

this game genuinely goes hard AF
gordon freeman is literally an ultra-chad, all of his co-workers are dying left and right, but this fucking trooper storms through the black mesa facility and single-handedly wipes out the whole ass military and a ton of alien creatures
based AF

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☑ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10
☑ 11

I have really enjoyed playing this game and the maps of each level. All of it is challenging yet doable with a happy mix of both. I feel as if this game is just as if not more fun as many games put out today.

+ music
+ visuals
+ creepy 90s government compound vibe
+ sometimes confusing (figuring things out)
+ ahead of its time
+ still feels like a smart game
+ check out the cern picture with gordan freeman

- sometimes confusing (spending too much time in one place)
- mid game is dry cause the vague story doesn't do much to propel you forward
- takes time to get used to the jump scares

Haven't finished it yet, but it's a great game and I would definitely recommend it, easy to learn hard to master

What a fun game it's more of a puzzle game than a shooting game, simple and excellent! 👏 👍

Learn to use the little finger left hand. Other than that ,it's all up too your shooting ability. It's got all that you can solve in disaster after disaster. It's great game for grown ups......Heh,Heh, Heh

really good game the graphics are bad sure but its an older game so look past that besides that everything else? amazing

One of the most iconic FPS games, great game.

Half Life is one of those games you have to try in your lifetime to really appreciate what and how far technology came and how graphics no matter how dated or old can still make a game look this good and fun to play.

Half-Life might now have outdated graphics but the eerie feel of the environments are still giving me this creepy and lonely feeling. The sound mixing feels like every room is empty and it has a little echo which is very recognizable for me. I like the lack of "quest" system or UI elements that tell you where to go and what to do it just happens naturally during gameplay. You are kind of left on your own to figure out what to do next and that was very satisfying. I wish more games were like this.

funny scientist scream, game makes me cream

game is from the middle ages but it still holds up

word of warning: this game seems a lot faster paced than you think it is. play slow and think combat situations through methodically, or you'll be living medkit-to-medkit at 10hp for half the game

very good game. not aged so well., now days is a pain to play gonna be completely honest.

I cannot believe that I have been missing this gem of a video game for so long. This game, while being old, still holds up extremely well. Yes, it doesn't have the best graphics, but for the time, it was probably amazing. Honestly, I still find the graphics good. I find that the low-res graphics give this game a certain charm. The story and game play is absolutely wonderful. It's shooting and combat holds up rather well, and I believe it helped pave the way for many more games like it to come. This is a great game.

This Game is Amazing. It is Perfect. You can easily get 150+ hours if you start a campaign from start. You can easily get more than 200 hours with the mods available on Steam itself. Don't hesitate to buy this game. It is the best game ever.

Absolutely amazing game, brings me back to my younger days playing this. Still just as fun after all these years

This game combines sci-fi with fps and that is one of the best features about it. It comes with multiplayer, singleplayer and Uplink Demo (PC Steam edition). The game design was revolutionary when it came out, and still is to this day. It beats many other titles of its time and also birthed the company we know as valve.

if you haven't played this, than play it, the donuts r good, the NCP's r funny and helpfull and nice, the aliens r scary, the movement is N I C E, the sounds are AMESSINGGGGG, the "enviormental" story telling is A M A Z I N G, the visuals are G R E A T, conclusion: pleeeeeaaaaaasss play this game, ik it sounds like im glazing but this damn game "revolutionaized"(ik i cant spell lol) the fucking gaming industry. just play it.

It's a good game with a few minor annoyances here and there.
I don't play a lot of shooters, but the game felt consistently on the edge between "difficult" and "oh come on, really??". I spent more time at under 20 health than above it. I used quicksaves a lot at those times. I kinda wanted to use console cheats just to finish the game, but I managed to finish without them.
The music is minimal but always interesting when it's there. The sound is generally very good.
To give a few points of annoyance:
- the one laser turret
- the final boss (worst one)
- the constant slight sliding as if you're always on ice
Overall: It's a good game and I'd recommend people play it to learn what everyone means when they're talking about Half-Life, but I wouldn't discourage them from pulling out the cheat menu every so often.

Amazing game, good gameplay, good story