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- Platform: Windows 98 / 95
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 15 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 15. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 15 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
Product Features
- Half-Life has been awarded 50 "Game of the Year" titles in publications across the world. Also billed as "Best Game Ever" by the UK publication, P C Gamer
- Half-Life offers an immense environment, a rich storyline and intelligent enemies
- the most gripping and intense gaming experience ever, are you ready to belong to the Half-Life generation?
- Half-Life - Game of The Year edition: For Gordon Freeman it was just another day at the lab, or so you thought until your experiment blew up in your face.
- Now, with aliens coming through the walls, a military death squad on the rampage and your panicking colleagues at the top of the endagered species list, you need to fight to stay alive
- Where do you go? Who can you trust? Can you survive?
- Opposing Force: The Official Expansion Game for Half-Life. Opposing Force expands the original Half-Life experience allowing you to play as a soldier sent in to eliminate Freeman. You'll play through some totally new levels using new weapons and commanding small teams of miltiary specialists.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 more 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. --Stuart Miles
Opposing Force Opposing Force returns the player to the Black Mesa facility, but tells the tale from the perspective of Colonel Adrian Shephard, one of the soldiers sent to clean up the scientists and their reality altering mess. Just as in Half Life, things quickly go badly for Colonel Shephard and his men. Ambushed by aliens, Adrian must fight his way through the ruins of the facility in an attempt to reach a helicopter extraction point.
What makes Opposing Force shine is the way it expands on the story of Half Life. Colonel Shephard passes though areas that players of Half Life are sure to recognise, and he occasionally runs into characters from the original game, including the infuriating Man in Suit. Opposing Force also introduces several new weapons, such as a sniper rifle (with scope), heavy machine gun and a .357 Magnum with a laser sight. There's even a "weapon" that is actually a common alien creature from the first game; its unique features allow it to be used as a kind of grappling hook.
Several new aliens make an appearance as well, almost all of them deadly. They exhibit the same sophisticated AI (artificial intelligence) as the monsters in Half Life, relentlessly and intelligently attacking Adrian as he makes his way through the game's impressive levels. Fortunately, Colonel Shephard's rank allows him to take command of any soldiers he encounters. Riflemen and machine gunners can be ordered to follow Adrian and provide covering fire, or assigned to guard a door or room. Engineers can cut through locked or blocked doorways, while Medics can heal the injured. Unlike Half Life's solitary "me against the world" gameplay, the addition of competent friendly forces provides a feeling of camaraderie: there's nothing like leading a squad of loyal Marines against an alien horde. --Mike Fehlauer
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Presenting immerse environment challenges, a rich story line, and intelligent enemies, Half-Life is the most gripping, frightening and intense game experience ever. The pack contains Half-Life Game of the Year edition including the acclaimed Team Fortress Classic and Half-Life: Opposing Force, the official expansion pack. Half-Life: Generation is a must have for those who are yet to experience this gaming phenomenon
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
John Woo, interative- entertainment for every generation.,
This review is from: Half-Life Generations Pack (Half-Life / Opposing Force) (Video Game)
I really, really wish I'd never played this title. I hate computer games- I think that they waste large chunks of your valuable spare time, and leave you nothing in return, except for rsi and machine-gun infested dreams. And this game is the most addictive time-waster I've ever played, and I get the feeling that it is extremely bad for me in all sorts of ways, the biggest one being that it makes 1st person gun-toting, blood-soaked, wholesale morally disgusting murder more fun than an unlimited tab at the Voodoo Lounge Bar. But I love it. Perfectly scripted, exquisitely timed- the story runs like a fully interactive X-files episode, but instead of Mulder tentatively edging around corners and Scully insisting that 'there must be a rational explanation for all this', you get to run from some all too real (kinda) aliens. And then bludgeon them. Your first tool of revenge, for the crimes perpetrated against your erstwhile scientific comrades, is a satisfyingly meaty crowbar, disturbingly efficient at smashing windows, face-huggers and alien heads. And that's just the start. 9mm pistol, .44 Magnum, better than Doom pump-action shotgun, 50 round HK MP5 Assault Rifle, laser guided missile launcher (that you get to blow up an fully working Apache Gunship with), grenades, satchel bombs, laser trip mines. The list sounds like the armoury from Matrix, Face/Off and Desperado, except this time you get to use them. A lot. And then you get to the soldiers. Hands up how many people like those dumb-ass, butch, everything-phobic soldier boys? None? Alright! But this isn't christmas in soldier killing town. They advance in groups, crouching behind obstacles to reload. They avoid each others' fire, setting up improvised cross-fire zones with rifles, machine-gun emplacements and grenades. When wounded, they fall back, seeking back up, then loop around you and shoot you in the back. Huh. You hear their radio calls, shouts, and clips falling to the ground when they reload. The only warning of imminent horrible-death-by-grenade you will receive is when you hear the all too familiar metal-on-tarmac sound distinctly too close for bodily comfort. Yes, they will kill you. But you will beat them. And it gets better. Ever wanted to fry a 200 foot high alien with a Saturn 5 rocket engine? Now you can. Ever wanted to burn a lumbering behemoth between two power generators so outrageously that the explosion wakes up the neighbours in the next street? Yup. How about orchestrating a massed pitched battle between aliens and enemy soldiers, and laughing as your enemies obliterate each-other? Guess what, you can. The graphics still impress, and the sound has never been bettered. Turn the lights off, crank your amp up, and jump out of your seat with terror. The claustrophobic settings make sure everything is at visceral close-quarters, and the game does not skimp on the gratuitous visuals, enhancing the realism further from where the AI left off. Later on, in one of the best sections ('Surface Tension'), you get to emerge into the bright sunlight. As you pause to admire the pretty 3d accelerated view, you pause, as the birdsong is mollified by what sounds rather like a full-size military tank rolling to a halt close by. But we've played these games before right? They never actually have working tanks, and if they do, they're always scripted, they can't fight independently against one guy on foot? Can they? Er... (queue the reload key...) However, almost everyone knows how good this game is; therefore this review is more of an attempt at cross-genre pollonation. Everyone deserves the opportunity to play this, but most adults like me never will because of the general perception of gaming. So, this review is for those casual, adult media/art/anything types who own a pc and might buy a game for the different experience it offers. Trust me, it's worth it in this case. But this poses a question- why should we be playing a game that so obviously glamourises guns, revenge and destruction? Surely we should not want to do this, even in a game? I haven't enough space left to even attempt to allay these fears, but what I can say is that, in fiction of all types, we can safely involve ourselves in worlds that are not likely to experience, and that this broadens our horizons. This is not a moral game, but its tongue in cheek sci-fi references remind us that what we are experiencing is post-modernism at its most accessible. Half Life taps our most instinctual response; survival. And when you do, finally, survive through this game, you will want to do it again. Humans lived this way for thousands of years, and we should celebrate our contemporary safety by experiencing work such as Half Life that reminds us where we came from, and what could happen again. Ulimately, Half Life is one of the most fun experiences you will ever have, and that is all you should have to worry about. Five Stars. With a bullet. E-mail with your thoughts if this got through to anyone!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply Perfect,
By A Customer
This review is from: Half-Life Generations Pack (Half-Life / Opposing Force) (Video Game)
It mat be getting on a bit but, this really is one hell of a game. Both Half-Life and Opposing Forces are superb software titles which every gamer should have.But what really shines out in this pack is the Counter-Strike add on. This online game is utterly addictive. Join the terrorist team and stop the hostages being rescued by the counter terrorists, or bomb a site, or even kill a vip the counter terrorists are trying to help escape. Or join the counter terrorists and rescues those hostages, get that vip to the chopper, or stop the terrorists from planting the bomb. Be warned, if your paying for your internet connection by the minute, you will soon be having some pretty big bills coming in. ;) BUY IT NOW!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get a Half Life!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Half-Life Generations Pack (Half-Life / Opposing Force) (Video Game)
I was watching Alien Resurrection last night and just kept thinking "No, no! You're doing it all wrong!"That's what Half Life does to you. I haven't played it for months and I'm still thinking about it. I only got round to buying it this year and I'm not at all sure what else was going on in my life for the 2 months it took to get through it. I'm pretty sure someone else used to live here, but I really don't remember any more. If you can't help feeling uninvolved and unsatisfied when you watch a film. Get a Half Life.
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