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Play as Gordon Freeman - a physicist - as you attempt to escape a Black Mesa Research Facility overran by aliens. Utilize your Hazardous Environment Suit to survive.
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Which perspective do you play from in Half-Life?
Half-Life has a first-person perspective.

seriesHalf-Life
developerValve Corporation
publisherSierra Studios
Valve Corporation

composerKelly Bailey engineGoldSrc
release date
NANovember 19th, 1998
EUNovember 27th, 1998

Single PlayerSci-FiFirst-PersonShooting
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This Half-Life mod remakes Valve's classic shooter to be both longer and wider, and it has radically altered my perception of the original
I've always said that my favourite chapter in Half-Life is Office Complex. In a game all about recontextualising the FPS from abstract mazes into a realistic, coherent setting, to me Office Complex felt like the ultimate expression of that. It's the most mundane part of Black Mesa's clandestine research facility, swapping the hellscapes of Doom and the fantasy realms of Heretic for a cold and clinical administration centre... "Read more." Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the company will fail'
Last year saw the 25th anniversary of Half-Life, one of the most important games in PC history and a spectacular debut for Valve. But in another timeline, it could've been the studio's second game... "Read more." Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
One of this year's GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company's first chief marketing officer, who went over her history with the company that brought us Half-Life and Steam... "Read more." Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'
It's the 2025 Game Developer's Conference, and one of this year's most interesting talks was delivered by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company's first chief marketing officer... "Read more." Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and even Day of Defeat have been updated by Valve
It was choppy, unreliable, and populated almost entirely by screamy mic spammers, but my word, do I miss the days of Half-Life Deathmatch Source. It's one of the enduring images of my own PC gaming past - a team of HLDM Source players, all wearing the G-Man skin, sprinting through the Black Mesa lab map and coating the walls with satchel charges. Half-Life 3 may very well be in the works, but Valve hasn't forgotten about the classics. Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress 2, Half-L...
 
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