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| From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  252 reviews
Sales Rank: 7918
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Genre: Shooter Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Game of the Year
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.2
Model: 70863
UPC: 020626708630
EAN: 0020626708630
ASIN: B00001KUII
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: still has factory tape seal, box is in very good condition, contents undisturbed
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| • | Enemy AI: Half-Life's monsters are also remarkably--even terrifyingly--intelligent. Our proprietary AI has them running in packs, assessing threats and showing a marked distaste for suicide runs. You'd better think as fast as they do. | | • | Rendering Technologies: So you don't want to have to buy a special hardware accelerator just to get 16-bit color, colored lighting, blurring, translucency or other cool visual effects? Then don't. Half-Life has developed all these features in software so now they're an integral part of the gameplay, not just eye-candy. Of course, if you do have Open-GL, Direct 3D or MMX hardware, things will look mind-bogglingly cool. | | • | Skeletal Animation System: Our new animation system lets us create monsters that are more spectacularly menacing than ever before. Half-Life's monsters have the highest polygon count, and the most fluid and complex motion ever seen in an action game. | | • | Multiplayer: Joining a multiplayer game is now fast and easy, thanksto Half-Life's powerful interface. Find your friends, choose the type of game you prefer and let our master server do the rest. Choose from a variety of multiplayer gameplay scenarios, and use our decal technology to mark your territory with a personal or clan logo. Other Features: | | • | Hazard Course training area for practicing movements, special maneuvers, and weapons use |
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Amazon.com Review
Your gun had better be loaded if you're playing Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition, the smartest, shootingest, bloodiest game ever to hit the PC. Take control of a scientist charged with destroying the alien invasion force that arrived, courtesy of government experiments gone wrong. Of course, in the post-X-Files world, there's additional bad guys in the form of federal "cleaners" who want you just as dead as the monsters. Power up your environmental suit and plunge through level after level of increasingly difficult and creepy challenges, rescuing your fellow scientists and ultimately clearing out the whole complex--if you're lucky. Game play is smooth and simple, after the obligatory false starts and botched maneuvers common to learning every new game. Persistence pays off, though: Half-Life rewards tenacity with increasing power and understanding of the virtual world. Play on a network and cooperate or compete with folks across the world or in the next cubicle. For those who've mastered the intricacies of Half-Life , the Game of the Year Edition includes Worldcraft 2.0, which the designers used to build every detail of the base. Make your own levels and snicker at other players' pathetic attempts to evade your deathtraps. It's easy to see why Half-Life won Game of the Year from dozens of publications; try it and see for yourself--if you're not too squeamish. --Rob Lightner
Amazon.com Product Description
Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition features the award-winning dynamic and plot-driven action game filled with intelligent aliens on the hunt. This package also includes new maps and models for the game as well as a team-based multiplayer add-on component. This game's superior artificial intelligence, seamless graphics, and advanced multiplay features make it popular.
Product Description
The critics agree. Half-Life is easily the most gripping, frightening and intense game experience ever. Awarded Game of the Year by more than 40 publications, Half-Life has been called a "Masterpiece of epic proportions." The Half-Life Game of the Year Edition includes new multiplayer models and maps as well as Team Fortress Classic, the hugely popular team-based multiplayer game that runs on top of the Half-Life engine. Featuring an integrated storyline with stunning visual effects and a hug
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| Customer Reviews: Read 247 more reviews...
 Revolutionary. March 24, 2008
Mechasam (Florida USA)
Yes, Doom was the beginning of the FPS genre as we know it. But Half-Life marked the beginning of an evolutionary leap for the genre. Quite simply put, Half-Life is, and will remain, one of the greatest games ever. I really can't put the gameplay experience into words, but I remember when I first played this game almost ten years ago, I was absolutely absorbed. Seriously. Absorbed. At the time, the mods were sharp, fun, and novel. Counter-strike. Firearms. Team Fortress Classic.
Man, those were fun days.
If you haven't played this game, you need to experience it and understand what it has done to the world of first-person shooters. The enemies. The weapons. The music. The levels. The creativity. It's a cinematic experience in itself, and you're the star.
 Arguably the best FPS crawler ever October 27, 2007
Mark B. (Burlington, VT)
My only experience with the game is the solo aspect. From a solo standpoint the game is probably the best shooter/crawler ever but to linear for me. I like a more open, sandbox type game. Half-Life took an already crounded genre, refined and did it better than anybody before or really since. Flawless game play, easy and intuitive controls and top notch story line. I think the story was the best part of the game. Despite my personal views this really is a must have for any pc gamer as it really is the top game in its field.
Saving the world...with a crowbar January 28, 2007
Rottenberg's rotten book review (nyc)
A must-kill for dedicated fans of single-player "first person shooter". HL takes an utterly unoriginal idea for either games or movies and crafts an utterly unstoppable gaming experience. You play Gordon Freeman, who works in the bowels of an ultra-secret, underground research facility called "The Black Mesa". (Having played the game yet I'm still not sure what's supposed to be going on in BM - it's The Aftermath that matters.) Oozing high-tech, the facility is host to the denizens of another dimension when you/Freeman accidentally...do something that tears a whole in the fabric of our own - allowing beings from that other world to enter ours.
Now, if you think that these otherworldly denizens are peaceful beings intent on fostering cross-dimensional love, or that your fellow human beings will enter the Black Mesa unarmed intent on warmly welcoming these beings to our world, or at least to rescue you - I'm afraid you've picked up the wrong game entirely. For in the bowels of "Black Mesa" you'll confront howling dog things, flying crabs, alien-zombified versions of your colleagues, gigantic aliens that breathe fire through their fists, aliens that hang from ceilings (and entrap their victims using these vine-looking things) and squads of human special forces troops intent on killing everything that moves - including you. If the above attracts you because you think it may be the setting that elevates the nobility of the human existence, I should warn you to look elsewhere - for in "Half Life", you'll find yourself acting indiscriminately with a 9mm automatic, a submachine gun, grenades and (most regrettably of all) a nasty crowbar; you'll make few friends and find yourself (for the most part) alone and (not infrequently) exiled to ventilation ducts (again with the ducts!!) to avoid getting shot at by humans, or burned, bitten, bolted or tongue-bathed by aliens.
Complex problem solving skills (as much as marksmanship or bullet-saving) are crucial in this game - in which your enemies have above-average levels of AI. There are unfortunately times when a level may be hung up by the failure to achieve some specific mission-goal, but this is on the whole a game in which the goals are sufficiently complex to make you feel cool for achieving them, yet not so complex as to be impossible to solve. The game's settings are fantastic - from the vast to claustrophobic. The game is long - uncommitted gamers may find it tedious - but the scope of design here rewards those who keep up with it.
I ran this game on an XP-equipped P4, with a 64MB AGP card, and had no problems (other than those involving the evil aliens and homicidal fellow humans). Graphics and sound were smooth, and I suffered no CTD's. As with all FPS games, The Rotten Review strenuously endorses the Nostromo Speedpad.
Long live the G man January 11, 2007
mikey mike
-When the world comes to an end it won't be some steroid pumped Arnold
Schwarzenegger type that saves the world, it shall be a geeky scientist
called Gordon Freeman. He is having a rather peaceful and uneventful
day till some little aliens start ripping his co workers to pieces and
some sounds and explosions start going off. No one has no idea what is
really going on and apparently, there seems to be an intense amount of
radiation which makes it impossible for anyone to go outside and see
what's really going on. As luck would have it, Gordon has hazmat suit
that can shield him from the radiation and so he's sent out to find out
what is happening. As he goes out he finds the legendary crowbow which
becomes his first weapon and as he ventures out he runs into tiny
little aliens that jump of the ground and bite you hard, he runs into
big aliens with crab heads that are pretty easy to kill but the most
dangerous foes he faces is not the aliens but rather the human army
that thinks Gordon is an enemy and tries to kill him at every turn.
Still not knowing what's going Gordon must fight his way to the truth
and uncover what is happening at Black Mesa
-A lot of idiots pan PC games and I honestly don't know why. It has
better and more tighter controls than console games and in the case of
this game the graphics and story are much better. compared to the
graphics we have today they seem crude but remember they came out a
long time ago and back when it came out it was. The facial animation
was crap but I doubt anyone will be paying attention to the faces when
they are surrounded by tiny little aliens trying to bit their faces
off. I know it sounds cliche and tired to say that graphics doesn't
matter as long as the game is solid but in this case it's true, plus
back in 98 this was top notch graphics.
-I'd love more than anything to say that the score is amazing but I
can't since there's no music in the game, but that really works to the
advantage of the game since it gives it an uber realistic feel that
tends to make you forget that you're playing a game and makes you feel
like you're actually Gordon roaming around the dark corridors trying
not to get ambushed by aliens. since there's no score the sound carries
the whole game and my god is it amazing.
-A lot of scares rely on someone jumping from the shadows but this game
rather realizes on sound to that work for you. Unlike horror movies,
the sound isn't ridiculously loud but rather creepy as hell. You can
hear moans and snickering coming from the speakers when you're just
simply walking around. The creepy ambiance alone is reason for why
anyone should check out this game. If you have heart problems then it's
best you play the game with the sound turned down since it will scare
you badly. adding a sub to your PC is a must for this game since there
is an abundance of lows spread throughout the game
-Perhaps the aspect of "Half-Life" that made it so famous was not the
game itself but the fantastic online spin off "Counter-strike" which
was a mod created by two people. I can't remember their names but I do
know that their game stole 7 months of my life three years ago and
those were some great 7 months. Counter-Strike is a fairly simple game
where you play as either the terrorist or the anti terrorist. You roam
around and shoot your enemies till one of you wins. I know it sounds
simple but what makes it work is just how plain fun it is. If you've
just had a bad and is looking to release some aggression then play this
game and you'll feel the anger slip away.
-With "God of War" and "Halo" being made into movies it's safe to say
that the video game genre is desperately trying to get back into the
movie industry. Apart from "Silent Hill" and "Mortal Kombat" they've
all been pretty terrible so my anticipation for them is not that high.
I do have cross my fingers for "Splinter Cell" since Peter Berg is
directing it. I hope that this game gets a great movie treatment that
no only does justice to the stellar game but also pulls a "Batman
Begins" with the video game adaptation franchise
-If you're looking for an intense FPS experience that scares you
poopless one second and makes you say wow the next second then pick
this up. If you want a FPS with a great story and characters that you
grow to then also pick this up.
Amazing but.... February 28, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is amazing but theres one thing wrong, there is something wrong! This game was by far THE BEST online multiplayer game but everytime you try to go on the online mutiplayer you will get a notice that your half-life version is out of date. i have 1.1.1.0 (latest version) and this is what it says when you click on it: it tells you that your versoion is the latesst version but there are no updates available! if someone knows why please tell me. and i have steam so thats not whats wrong. but i think you might have to buy some fancy version.
besides that, this game is the best game ever!
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