Half Life (PC) Reviews

If you ask any gamer which is the definative first person shooter and I'm fairly certain that you'll repeatedly get the answer....Doom!!! For me however, I loathed Doom and think that it has to be Half Life that set the benchmark for FPS (First Person Shooters). The games protagonist (Gordon Freeman) is not your average muscle clad Uber ...  Read the complete review

This game is very realistic and plays through with a really good story line. Its a first person shooter game. The game starts you off late for work and then as you go to colunteer for this experiment that goes wrong you find yourself running around with a crowbar, until you get your first pistol. you basically play as the main character who ...  Read the complete review

Without a doubt, Half-Life is one of the greatest video games ever made, and a benchmark for PC games in particular - it redefined the first person shooter genre, with a focus on a cinematic aesthetic, uncomfortable atmosphere, scary monsters, and a plot ripped straight from the very best sci-fi fiction. From the very opening moments of ...  Read the complete review

Released by Valve Software back in 1998, Half-Life is a brilliantly conceived first person shooter that places you in the role of one Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist working in an underground research facility located underneath a desert in New Mexico, who finds himself battling against both alien forces and US marines who are sent in to ...  Read the complete review

I am a big fan of shoot-em-ups. Half-Life broke the mould when it was first released being a brilliant game then, standing time and still a brilliant game to this day. With a vast array of weaponry, armour and enemies to battle it is in my top 10 games of all time. You move through a variety of different worlds and ...  Read the complete review

Half-life is arguably one of the best first-person shooters of all time. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist working in an enormous top-secret research facility overrun by aliens. Becoming the last hope for the thousands of scientists and security in the facility, Freeman must utilize a wide array of weapons, ...  Read the complete review

Half life was my first major first person shooter game. and it was brilliant. not only was the story line gripping and interesting but it also intrigued you pushing you that one step futher into the game and stopping you from quitting the story line of half life (spoilers) is you play gordan freeman a research scientist in black mesa ...  Read the complete review

My Personal Thoughts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Half Life is a truely exceptional piece of gaming. I first played Half Life when it was released on ps2 as i never had a PC at that time. However when i did get a PC Half Life was straight into my collection. I thought he game was fantastic and unlike anything i had previously played. It had a ...  Read the complete review

HALF-LIFE Like my Amiga 600 beforehand, I have fond memories of my first PC. A Pentium 133Mhz was the business in 1996, although now days it would likely be out-performed by a twenty quid toaster! Still, you could play some pretty top notch games like Command & Conquer (pure simplicity), Sam & Max (I miss the old point and click ...  Read the complete review

If you have never heard of Half-life, your either an extra terrestrial, or have been hiding in an underground bombshelter waiting for the second world war to pass (Okay, there might be a FEW other explanations, but I'm too lazy to mention all of them here :-)). If you're the prior, welcome to Earth - the home of Half-life. If you're the latter, ...  Read the complete review

I like Half-Life. It's a bit old, and it's full of bugs, and it's had so much praise that I find myself really wanting to pan it utterly, but I can't. Because I like it. Gordon Freeman is an unlikely saviour for humanity. Apparently a hugely-respected scientist, Freeman's contribution to the Top Secret 'Black ...  Read the complete review

best shooter ever - Advantages: all the mods, counterstrike - Disadvantages: its a lil old

The moment i installed this game, i aint never looked back. This game was a new revolution in gaming, its exciting and the bst first person shooter i have ever played. The single player mode is out of this world, it kept me gripped for hours on end. The gameplay and story line is original. The best thing i found about this ...  Read the complete review

I'm afraid I DON'T like Half-Life. I have it, but the only reason I got it in the first place was to play Counter-Strike, but when I eventually got round to playing Half-life, I was extremely under-whelmed. If I want to go round shooting monsters, I'll play House of the Dead 2, if I want a stupid nutso storyline, I'll ...  Read the complete review

Never played it? Never hear or if? Where u been? This is regarded to be one of the best games in the history of all shoot-em up games. With a choice of serveral weapons and different maps and different mods u will never get sick of this games. Its just too much fun. I hardly ever played the actual gae halflife i only play counterstrike. ...  Read the complete review

I Love this game its the most versatile game ive ever played for any console or computer. I have seen nearly 50 different addons for this game including stupid 1's where you throw boxes at each other to the famous counterstrike which is by far 1 of the best games ive even had the plaesure of playing. The game half life in itself is fab ...  Read the complete review

Go and buy this game. Now. This is the greatest first person shooter on the planet. And if you try and play it like Quake, body bags are optional. Grunts don't just 'move diagonally' they hide, team up and ambush at every count. This game also has a real storyline. Not a 'Oops landed on planet X must kill everything' ...  Read the complete review

Right, Half Life! What can I say, A LOT! For starters it works without a 3D card which is something many new/newish games don't do! The graphics are amazing and have nearly made me wet myself on more than one occasion! The game plays well and isn't too hard too get the hang of. It also combines shooting stuff and thinking quite well, ...  Read the complete review

[REWRITTEN] This game has everything. Graphically its got D3D, OpenGL and 3DFX as options and for sound it got A3D and the EAX. The games got a great story which unfolds as you progress. I've completed this game twice since I got it you never quite know whats going to happen next, and fresh events are always occurring to get you more and ...  Read the complete review

Half Life creates the illusion of reality. Sierra has spent a lot of time in replacing the mistakes of the past, and makes it the closest game to reality ever. All shooters in the future will not overlook half lifes ideas. The plot of the game is typical,you play the character of Gordon Freeman a scientist at the Black Mesa Research ...  Read the complete review