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| Half Life is one of the
few games around with a mega in depth story line and plot which gets
you involved to the end. Deep in the bowels of the Black Mesa Federal Research Facility, a decommissioned missile base, a top secret project is underway. A portal has been opened to another dimension, and human science has never seen anything like the world on the other side. |
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You are Gordon Freeman, a young research associate in the Anomalous Materials Laboratory. You have limited security clearance and no real idea of just how dangerous your job has become, until the morning you are sent alone into the Test Chamber to analyze of a strange crystalline specimen. A routine analysis, they tell you. Until something goes wrong. |
| Is it sabotage? An accident? Or is it something you did? All you hear is screaming; all you see is spacetime shattering. The next thing you know, the entire Black Mesa Facility is a nightmare zone, with sirens wailing and scientists fleeing in terror from the things their co-workers have become. |
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Hordes of creatures from the far side of the portal are pouring through rifts in the local fabric of reality. Monsters are everywhere. Madness rules. You head for the surface, but the usual routes are impassable-closed off by the disaster, infested with headcrabs and houndeyes and increasingly larger and hungrier creatures. |
| As Gordon Freeman, you must enlist the help of traumatized scientists and trigger-happy security guards to get through high-security zones, sneaking and fighting your way through ruined missile silos and Cold War cafeterias, through darkened airducts and subterranean railways. When you finally come in sight of the surface, you realize that the inhuman monsters aren't your only enemies-for the government has sent in ruthless troops and stealthy assassins. Their orders seem to be that when it comes to the Black Mesa, nothing gets out alive... and especially not you. |
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When even
your own species turns against you, maybe you'll be glad to see
another portal beckoning. But then again, on Earth you have allies;
while on the far side of the portal, nothing at all is familiar
except the sense of danger. Save the Earth? Well, maybe. But that's a pretty low priority compared to saving your own skin. |
| To interest you more, the game has many great advantages over other similar games. The AI is very advanced, watch out for those US Marines as they are the smartest of the lot. Bouncing grenades off walls and all other necessities. Skeleton Animation adds depth to the visuals as well, adding much better crafted characters and enemies. |
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You will experience the use of a vast number of weapons. Crow Bar, Shot Gun, Machine Gun/Grenade Launcher Combo, Crossbow with Zoom, Missile Launcher just to name a few of the more general ones. You'll be having a fight to the death against both a variety of alien life and numerous marines, in your travels you'll visit 2 different worlds with different gravitational properties and many other exciting elements like Mine Fields, Apache Helicopters, Teleporting machines and other numerous weird things. |
| Don't forget multiplayer as with Half Life multiplayer runs silky smooth on the net and Team Fortress Clasic runs even better. Even in massive games with 32 players. The sounds are just amazing, you'll be able to hear the ammunition drop, and all those small sounds if you listen carefully. |
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Interact with friendly foe to help you on your way, Scientists and Guards will be off some help when you're in need of medical attention, or when you need a right hand man. |
| On Par with its brilliance comes the many awards it won last year. Including last years Game of the Year in many places, and certainly last years action game of the Year. |
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Keep your wits, and watch you back. You never know who's lurking around in the dark. |
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Developer : Sierra
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Overall : 98 / 100 |
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