Half life has taken over my WHOLE life (Half-Life in General)

Member Name: hashzip

Product:	Half-Life in General
Date:	20/06/01 (77 review reads)
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Advantages: hours of entertaining, cheap for what you get, play over the internet in case you get bored with playing the first player over and over again

Disadvantages: graphics engine getting old

This game is just simply amazing. In my point of view, i think this game just latches on to you as soon as you get it. I bought it, thinking it was going to be good, and i wasn't wrong. The Menu is realistic including a "boot camp" which is to get you used to the game. I thought this was a brilliant idea and as soon as i started it, i just said "wow!" The graphics looked amazing, (even though it's quite an old engine now) it did look like a real camp. I thought they put a lot of detail into it. The view was the best for a 3D shoot em' up. The surronding area was good, with good detail. The game seems almost real and it is possible for it to happen which is good. It's like a story and you just need to follow that story, but it doesn't make it into a role playing game. There is more action for it to become a role playing game. The guns are also good, and have realistic sounds that makes your imagination go wild.

Half Life One of the most influential first person games, Half Life is the big daddy of its genre. Released in 1998 before Unreal Tournament, Soldier of Fortune and other greats, it still manages to be one of the most-played games online.
With an equal balance of action and story line, you play Dr Gordon Freeman, a professor starting a new job at a black ops research facility. However, soon after you arrive, things go horribly wrong with some of the experiments. Left to your own devices in a locked down facility, you basically have to get out alive.

The game is based across one seamless level--the facility. Half Life broke the rules of the level-to-level games before it. Here you get immersed into the Half Life world. Yet it isn't just the maps that are different from what you have come to expect from this genre. The weapons aren't just strewn around as they are in Quake 3. Half Life prefers to hide them on people, lockers and testing rooms making the overall environment mo
re realistic. But where Half Life excels is the multiplayer options.

This game has managed to create a special place in many a gamer's heart. Whether you are new to the genre or just looking for a new challenge, this game is well worth a look at. What's so great is that it's accessible to everyone. If you're new to the genre, stick with the single player missions. But if you're looking for that new challenge, get this and then download Counterstrike straight away.

My advice... WHY ARE YOU SITTING THERE? GET THAT GAME!

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