About Half-Life
Dr. Gordon Freeman doesn't speak, but he's got a helluva story to tell. This first-person roller-coaster initiated a new era in the history of action games
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Storyline
Dr. Gordon Freeman arrives late for work at 8:47 am in the Black Mesa Research Facility, using the advanced Black Mesa tram system that leads through the facility. He arrives at the Anomalous Materials Lab, his work place, and he is informed by the security officer that the scientists have a special experiment today, so he goes to the locker room and puts on the hazard suit. He goes to the lab's lower levels, and arrives at the Anti-Mass Chamber, where he is instructed that the specimen to be used that day is the rarest and also the most unstable specimen. He is tasked with pushing the specimen into the scanning beam of the Anti-Mass Spectrometer for analysis. However as soon as he pushes it, it explodes, and creates a sudden catastrophe called a "resonance cascade", opening a portal betwe
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About Half-Life
Half-Life is a game developed by Valve and published by Sierra Entertainment. Released in 1998, built on the GoldSrc engine, Half-Life falls under the Shooter and Puzzle and Adventure genres. It holds an overall rating of 84/100 based on 2797 ratings.
The game is available on Linux, PC, Mac, PS2 and can be found on Steam.. Game modes include Single player, Multiplayer.
The game explores themes of Action, Science fiction, Horror, Thriller, Warfare and is played from a First person perspective., with 1 DLC and expansion available. Players who enjoy Half-Life might also like the 8 similar games listed above.