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Released November 19, 1998 · Valve
Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist who must escape from the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is overrun by aliens following a disastrous scientific experiment. Its gameplay consists of diverse combat, exploration and puzzles.
Steam · 164K reviews · 96% positive
IGDB · out of 100
The Half-Life Lobby
I was excited for this Quake port of Half-Life until I discovered the creator's wild AI conspiracy theories
Students of first-person shooter history will likely know that the technology Half-Life runs on—GoldSrc—is a heavily modified version of the Quake engine. It's one of many, many branches of id-tech's ancient technological tree. Indeed, you'll still find tiny fragments of Quake code in Valve's moder…
A developer got the original Half-Life running on a 2007 Nokia N95 at a respectable 30 fps, plus it even works with a mouse and keyboard
We knew when we gave the original Half-Life a 97% way back in 1998 that it was something special that gamers would be playing years from then. But I don't think we ever thought someone would play it on a Nokia phone at 30 FPS, with mouse and keyboard support. Oh, technology can be a wonderful thing…
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