• Half-Life was followed by the expansions Opposing Force (1999), Blue Shift (2001) and Decay (2001), developed by Gearbox Software. (wikipedia.org)
  • Half-Life was followed by an expansion pack, Opposing Force, on November 1, 1999, developed by Gearbox Software. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like Opposing Force, Blue Shift was published by Sierra Entertainment. (wikipedia.org)
  • The game also comes with Half-Life: Opposing Force, so if you have not picked up that title, then you are basically getting two new games in one. (gameindustry.com)
  • Just beat Half Life 1 and Opposing Force last month for the first time. (racketboy.com)
  • Prior to Half-Life 2 , they had developed or helped develop every Half-Life expansion game or port, including Opposing Force , Blue Shift , Counter-Strike: Condition Zero , Half-Life for the Sony PlayStation 2 (including Half-Life Decay ), and Half-Life for the Sega Dreamcast (including Blue Shift ). (infogalactic.com)
  • It was followed up by two official mission packs by third-party developers called »Opposing Force« and »Blue Shift«, the former of which is every bit as excellent and innovative as Half-Life itself. (emphy.de)
  • Ten hours long, Field Intensity sits neatly alongside Half-Life: Opposing Force, and works as an ideal companion to the entire sci-fi series. (pcgamesn.com)
  • I had a copy of the Generation set , which included both the main game and the expansions Opposing Force and Blue Shift . (entertainium.co)
  • Half-Life: Opposing Force is the first expansion pack for Half-Life . (macsourceports.com)
  • Copy the "valve" directory from an installation of Half-Life into it, alongside the "gearbox" directory from an installation of Half-Life: Opposing Force . (macsourceports.com)
  • Seeing as how they handled making the Half-Life: Opposing Force expansion, it made sense to hand the task off to them. (macsourceports.com)
  • The original Half-Life, Valve's first product, was released in 1998 for Windows to critical and commercial success. (wikipedia.org)
  • Valve's first product, Half-Life, was released on November 19, 1998, and published by Sierra On-Line for Windows. (wikipedia.org)
  • we have spent 2 years undeveloping half-life by 5 months to present you the real e3 1998 experience. (moddb.com)
  • When the game was finally released under the name »Half-Life« in 1998, it was not the best title from a technical point of view (it had been overtaken by Epic Games' »Unreal« ca. half a year earlier), but it worked well enough. (emphy.de)
  • This review, as well as the sequel to the 1998 critically acclaimed masterpiece Half-Life, have been a long time coming, and while 2004 has netted some excellent titles for both the PC and home consoles, it just wouldn't be the same without a breakout PC first-person-shooter, now would it? (gamesfirst.com)
  • Half-Life , the game which propelled developers Valve towards gaming superstardom, was first released on 19th November 1998. (entertainium.co)
  • In 2020, after years of speculation, Valve released its flagship virtual reality game, Half-Life: Alyx. (wikipedia.org)
  • Set 5 years before Half-Life 2, players control Freeman's ally Alyx Vance in her quest to defeat the alien Combine. (wikipedia.org)
  • A new Half-Life mod does for the original Valve, sci-fi FPS what Half-Life: Alyx does for Half-Life 2, providing a complete, fully voice-acted prequel, focusing on Gordon Freeman and his work at Black Mesa. (pcgamesn.com)
  • Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter (FPS) games developed and published by Valve. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's not a special edition or add-on: Blue Shift is the official sequel to Half-Life, the awesome first-person shooter series from Sierra. (gameindustry.com)
  • Rocket Shooter Cast is the sequel to Rocket Shooter. (informer.com)
  • In more than a few ways Half-Life 2 has been pegged as the greatest-something-something game ever - PC game, shooter, action game, storytelling endeavor - but the hype has been a double-edged sword, causing stricter criticisms than most any other game recently released. (gamesfirst.com)
  • Half-Life is at best a fully-functional, nostalgia fueled first-person shooter. (gameskinny.com)
  • For those who have never heard of the series, Half-Life is a first-person shooter based in a science facility known as Black Mesa. (gameskinny.com)
  • Half Life saw several expansions released which continued the story of Black Mesa or otherwise fleshed out some other characters or components of the world Valve created. (racketboy.com)
  • They started with developing expansions to Valve Software 's Half-Life . (infogalactic.com)
  • Along with its connection to the first game, Blue Reflection: Second Light is a sequel to the 2021 anime Blue Reflection Ray . (pcgameforum.com)
  • Half-Life 2 returns the player to the role of Gordon Freeman. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the way you pass you're former self in Half-life, Gordon Freeman, which is the only time I was really amused in the entire game. (gameindustry.com)
  • Half-Life tells the story of Gordon Freeman, a physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility in New Mexico who works on the cutting edge of scientific research and experimentation. (racketboy.com)
  • In the original Half-Life, you are Gordon Freeman, a physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility. (gamesfirst.com)
  • In 2004, Valve released Half-Life 2 to further success, with a new setting and characters and physics-based gameplay. (wikipedia.org)
  • On November 16, 2004, Valve released Half-Life 2. (wikipedia.org)
  • A few years after Half-Life, Valve set out to release a sequel. (emphy.de)
  • When Valve released »Half-Life: Source« a few weeks after Half-Life 2, it was hoped to be a remake of Half-Life 1 with the new engine. (emphy.de)
  • After the mod release, Valve contacted the developers (who called themselves »The Crowbar Collective«) and convinced them to make the final version of Black Mesa a commercial title, with full access to the latest version of the Source engine, and thereby giving them their blessing to make Black Mesa a somewhat official part of the Half-Life franchise. (emphy.de)
  • When I got the Collector's Edition of Half-Life 2 for my birthday in 2005, it included with it a copy of Half-Life: Source , the version of Half-Life Valve released in 2004 which was built in their new engine and contained some different water effects but which was otherwise essentially identical. (entertainium.co)
  • Killer-rat movie Graveyard Shift (1990)? (gamesradar.com)
  • Affirming the value of existing family ties as she perceptively explores the formation of new ones, Hamilton elaborates on themes from Cousins (1990) with a populous sequel. (kirkusreviews.com)
  • Porting Half-Life to console platforms (each with new game content) followed, building the company's experience in console game-making, in addition to enhancing and building upon the successful Counter-Strike branch of the Half-Life franchise. (infogalactic.com)
  • Between Counter-Strike 2 , Starfield , and Resident Evil - as well as everything and anything related to GTA 6 - he has a close eye on the heady world of videogames, and can often be found lamenting the tragedy that IO Interactive's Freedom Fighters never got a sequel. (pcgamesn.com)
  • however, the port was cancelled and Blue Shift was instead released for Windows on June 12, 2001. (wikipedia.org)
  • OK, so here's the deal: around 2001, Gearbox Software was contracted to port Half-Life to the Sega Dreamcast. (macsourceports.com)
  • This is a Half-Life mod aimed to recreate Hunt Down The Freeman in the GoldSrc engine with LD style. (moddb.com)
  • Likewise, the experiments that Black Mesa were doing on the alien life of Xen clearly shows that they were aware of the border world for much longer than Freeman was privy to, having made previous journeys there using the portal technology discovered in the Lambda complex. (entertainium.co)
  • The first game in the Portal series, set in the same universe as Half-Life, was released in 2007. (wikipedia.org)
  • The game takes place within the early parts of Half-Life, with Calhoun attempting to escape the facility with a small group of scientists. (wikipedia.org)
  • Considered one of the greatest video games of all time, Half-Life 2 was praised for its advances in computer animation, sound, narration, computer graphics, artificial intelligence and physics, and won more than 35 Game of the Year awards. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is also worth mentioning some of Half-Life's other innovative elements such as the health system (with the health stations that could be used to "top-up" instead of just wasting a full pack etc.), and the first-person platforming (although that was mostly at the end of the game) was actually good instead of frustrating as is often the case. (racketboy.com)
  • The game also received a very well-regarded sequel in 2004 entitled Half-Life 2. (racketboy.com)
  • the world eagerly waited for a new game in the »Half-Life« franchise, well knowing that there may never be such a thing. (emphy.de)
  • With its nice variety of locations, good controls and engaging combat, Half-Life was pretty much the perfect game for its time. (emphy.de)
  • Half-Life 2 CTF has all the fun you expect from a Capture The Flag game. (informer.com)
  • Still Life is a surprising game which is a must for adventure genre lovers. (informer.com)
  • Every single time a player loses a life and either starts their next one or continues the game, not only do all enemies on the screen get knocked down (a common procedure in these games), but they also lose a noticeable amount of life. (honestgamers.com)
  • Exploring all-new areas of the huge, underground laboratory, you get some extra details on Half-Life's backstory, as well as some smart little nods to the full, original game. (pcgamesn.com)
  • Half-Life 2 is out, and while it seems unbelievable that a game we waited five years for has actually launched, it is just as unbelievable that it lives up to the hype in nearly every way - nearly. (gamesfirst.com)
  • Half-Life 2 is a worthy, if slightly disappointing, successor to Half-Life, and a fantastic game even with some glaring issues. (gamesfirst.com)
  • For those of our readers who never played through Half-Life, but are thinking about picking up the sequel, I must briefly return to the first game to explain Gordon Freeman's fate. (gamesfirst.com)
  • Half-Life is a surprisingly tough game in many places, with the HECU commandos especially having really advanced AI for the era, capable of flanking the player and flushing you out with grenades. (entertainium.co)
  • For example, the nature of the resonance cascade accident is left unexplained, but it's heavily inferred that it is caused deliberately by the G-Man (the anonymous man in the blue suit seen throughout the game). (entertainium.co)
  • It spawned a sequel and a pair of spinoff games, and a third game in the main series has been in the works for several years and should be delivered in 2024. (macsourceports.com)
  • Bugdom 2 is a 2002 sequel to the original game. (macsourceports.com)
  • It was definitely an interesting maneuver, and one that avoided having to explain what happened after the end of the first game, they wouldn't go there until the sequel. (macsourceports.com)
  • Considering Half-Life 's almost cultist-level following, I can't imagine a better game to put under the Rewind Review lens. (gameskinny.com)
  • The latter half of the game also touches upon the anime Blue Reflection Ray and even pulls in protagonists Hiori and Mio Hirahara alongside the villainous Uta Komagawa. (pcgameforum.com)
  • Half-Life: Sum takes place during and after the resonance cascade in which you play as the tough as nails HECU grunt Jane Doe as she has to wade through. (moddb.com)
  • Now let's play with some anomalous materials and cause a resonance cascade so we can whack headcrabs with a crowbar in Half-Life for PC! (gameskinny.com)
  • When developer Gust announced Blue Reflection in 2017, I was elated as I grew up watching Sailor Moon alongside my little sister. (pcgameforum.com)
  • While I played Half-Life: Uplink on an old PC Gamer demo CD, my first "real" encounter with Valve's first masterpiece was in 2002. (entertainium.co)
  • Although in this sequel players do not necessarily have to know about the original story, it helps. (gameindustry.com)
  • If you have been living on Mars and don't know what Half-Life is, then start from the beginning because the original is way more fun to play. (gameindustry.com)
  • HL:Enriched is a HL mod that strives to polish and improve the Half-Life experience within the original engine limits. (moddb.com)
  • In 2006 and 2007, they followed up with two short sequels called »Episode One« and »Episode Two», which were both significantly shorter than the original Half-Life 2. (emphy.de)
  • Some other sections were also significantly shortened, making the mod version of Black Mesa only roughly half as long as the original Half-Life. (emphy.de)
  • I have run through the original Half-Life twice, once on normal and once on hard. (gamesfirst.com)
  • Despite playing it fresh off the back of the truly groundbreaking sequel, I immediately saw what made the original so beloved. (entertainium.co)
  • Lorne Green, Adama in the original 'Battlestar Galactica,' would have enjoyed the sequel, thinks Frodo. (tripod.com)
  • And how does the sequel affect our view of the original film? (lu.se)
  • Blue Shift puts the player in the position of Barney Calhoun, a security guard working at Black Mesa. (wikipedia.org)
  • No mention of Half-Life: Source or Black Mesa? (racketboy.com)
  • Since I'm a die-hard Half-Life fan, you bet I downloaded and played the finished version of Black Mesa on the very day it came out. (emphy.de)
  • It comes from Hazard Team, which recently launched another unofficial Half-Life add-on, Field Intensity, that follows the HECU soldiers between their initial arrival at Black Mesa, all the way up to its destruction by nuclear bomb. (pcgamesn.com)
  • For Half-Life 2, the old Half-Life engine (retroactive called »GoldSrc«, after its directory name in the code repository) was modified some more, leaving only mere traces of the old Quake engine behind. (emphy.de)
  • Here was the next best thing I could find for Doom: https://realm667.com/index.php/en/component/docman/?task=doc_download&gid=924&Itemid= It's still not on par with what GoldSRC/Source Engine WADs are out there for dev textures. (doomworld.com)
  • Half-Life received acclaim for its graphics, gameplay and seamless narrative. (wikipedia.org)
  • Both games sport problems here and there, but - for comparison sake- Half-Life 2's problems end up affecting gameplay in a way that Halo 2 's never did. (gamesfirst.com)
  • Now she spends every shift dreading what could happen and doubting whether she'll be able to handle another tragedy. (boldstrokesbooks.com)
  • This mod gives you a very scary, thrilling, and entertaining experience it's also not related with half-life story. (moddb.com)
  • It tells the coming-of-age story of a young boy, Steven Universe ( Zach Callison ), who lives with the Crystal Gems-magical, mineral-based aliens named Garnet ( Estelle ), Amethyst ( Michaela Dietz ), and Pearl ( Deedee Magno Hall )-in the fictional town of Beach City. (wikipedia.org)
  • The story is a continuation of the events of Blue Reflection . (pcgameforum.com)
  • In Southern Cross , Cornwell takes us even closer to the personal and professional lives of big-city police, in a story of corruption, scandal, and robberies that escalate to murder. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Each chapter moves the story forward from a different perspective, shifting from Tori to Charlie to their 7-year-old brother, Oliver. (kirkusreviews.com)
  • B'Elanna decides it's time to make some changes in her life. (squidge.org)
  • During his time in Iraq, Turner lost many of his Army friends, making it very difficult for him to settle back into civilian life. (christianpost.com)
  • Which would mean your pussy's clamped tight around the fabric of those pants, moistening the surface just a little each time you shift in your seat. (alternative-read.com)
  • In Blue Shift, players you're no longer a competent scientist who probably makes enough money to drive home in a luxury car, but rather security guard, Barney Calhoun. (gameindustry.com)
  • hey this a new half life mod i am working on running on sprit of half life this mod aim to get the experents of playing half life as Scientist trying. (moddb.com)
  • Over the following decade, numerous Half-Life games were canceled, including Episode Three, a version of Half-Life 3, and games developed by Junction Point Studios and Arkane Studios. (wikipedia.org)
  • Blue Shift also includes a High Definition pack, which upgrades the quality of the models and textures in both Blue Shift and the preceding games in the series. (wikipedia.org)
  • It would be fair to say that Half-Life is one of the most important games in all of gaming history. (racketboy.com)
  • Otherwise, you can help keep the dream alive by reading our guide to the complete Half-Life 3 saga (it's coming, and we won't hear any different), or maybe take a break from crowbarring headcrabs with something else from our list of the best FPS games on PC , including Titanfall 2 and Rainbow Six: Siege. (pcgamesn.com)
  • Half-Life 2, one of the most anticipated PC games ever, is worth owning, playing, and loving like a significant other. (gamesfirst.com)
  • I'm coming to this point in my role as a critic where I'm having these huge waves of emotion and yeah, enjoyment, all in a tumbling release because of this shift in my writing from exhibitions to games. (thewhitepube.co.uk)
  • Aliens vs Predator Half life mod SinglePlayer Campaign: Marine and Predator Mission and Multiplayer: TeamMatch Wave Arena and Capture the Flag. (moddb.com)
  • These are issues that shouldn't be brushed under the carpet, especially for teens who will have questions and should be taught about real life situations. (gamesradar.com)
  • Half a decade later he's back with an official studio album as a sequel. (rapreviews.com)
  • Blue Reflection: Second Light is broken into four primary mechanics: exploration, crafting, development, and combat. (pcgameforum.com)
  • Ed Smith Previously of Edge, Vice, Polygon, and the BBC, Ed is symbiotically connected to the gaming news matrix, covering everything from Cities Skylines 2 road tools, to Half-Life mods, and classic boomer shooters. (pcgamesn.com)
  • Now, four years later, Gust followed up with Blue Reflection: Second Light and the result is simply magical. (pcgameforum.com)
  • Twenty-five years of a life well-lived. (squidge.org)
  • In total I give Blue Shift 2 and 1/2 Gin Gems for peaking my interest, yet like the game's main character, it ultimately delivers a slightly sub par performance. (gameindustry.com)
  • Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Crystal Gems comprise Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven-a young, half-human, half-Gem boy who inherited his gemstone from his mother, the Crystal Gems' former leader Rose Quartz. (wikipedia.org)
  • Glock is clearly enjoying the lifestyle his hard work afforded him, vacationing somewhere sunny with crystal blue water and a crystal studded watch on his arm. (rapreviews.com)
  • Work on the sequel, tenatively titled "Save The Astronaut II" has started. (doomworld.com)
  • Hammer Head is a passionate book full of sweat, swearing, bashed thumbs, and a deep sense of finding real meaning in work and life. (goodreads.com)
  • God was at work in my life and in my marriage even as I did everything I could to walk out on Him and everyone else," Chaplain Turner said. (christianpost.com)
  • In a genre that shifted hard toward crooning and 'tuning, Glock is undeniably old school in the best way - he spits straight bars. (rapreviews.com)
  • In Hornet's Nest , her page-turning novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real-life heroes to uncover flesh-and-blood characters who strode through her pages to reveal vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes doubting, always fascinating figures. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Real-Life Mermaids' Adventure in the Deep. (lilla-brogatan.se)
  • Real-Life Mermaids' Adventure in the Deep Underwater specialists share unique tails, huge lungs and love of open water. (lilla-brogatan.se)
  • First she turned us into real life mermaids and then she gave us a ton of blind bags toys to open and then to top it off she turned the hot tub into a slimy mess with slime baff. (lilla-brogatan.se)
  • There is a real effort to demonstrate that all walks of life are acceptable and should be embraced, which is a fantastic lesson to be teaching teens as they develop from kids into adults. (gamesradar.com)
  • The rare telling follows the inspiring real life account of an Army Chaplain Darren Turner - a decorated Iraqi war vet - who comes home and faces an unexpected emotional struggle that threatens his marriage and the future of his family. (christianpost.com)
  • We're still waiting - and dreaming, and hoping - for Half-Life 3 to eventually hit Steam. (pcgamesn.com)
  • A black-ops government team commanded by Attinger eventually winds up on Cade's lawn, and the focus, if you can call it that, then shifts to Stanley Tucci as Joshua, a Steve Jobs-like tech mogul, and his army of Autobot clones. (newsreview.com)
  • At the end of my Legend of Zelda Rewind Review I asked you - the readers - to suggest the next series for me to take on, and an overwhelming number of people suggested Half-Life . (gameskinny.com)
  • While others voted on the Star Wars: Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series, Half-Life won with over 76% of the vote. (gameskinny.com)
  • For all her life, she wished she could be someone special or interesting like the girls in her favorite series. (pcgameforum.com)
  • Later that year a sequel, Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood , was launched. (infogalactic.com)
  • A U.K. 7-year-old sold 33 paintings in half an hour. (lilla-brogatan.se)
  • this is the dark and gritty version of the borealis from half life 2 alpha 1999. (moddb.com)
  • dresses like Blue Velvet 's Frank Booth and glides around like a dandified version of McConaughey's Dazed and Confused character, indiscriminately kidnapping children and harnessing their "shine" to shoot lightning bolts at the Tower, determined to bring it down so that. (gamesradar.com)
  • As with all Rewind Reviews , Half-Life will undergo a review process through the eyes of a modern critic. (gameskinny.com)
  • This is a topic too broad for a review of " Glockoma 2 " but suffice it to say that blaming Key Glock for wanting to floss his success ignores a society that encourages both the pursuit of wealth and a reckless disregard for human life. (rapreviews.com)
  • Gearbox went on to develop Blue Shift, Half-Life's second expansion pack. (wikipedia.org)
  • For half of the price of a regular bet, players get up to three Shifting Wilds. (affgambler.com)
  • Shifting Wild can get activated without players paying for it. (affgambler.com)
  • Thunder Force V shifts the focus to Earth wherein humans discover the wreckage of Thunder Force IV 's Fire Leo Rynex ship, which they refer to as "Vasteel", and begin to reverse-engineer its technology for the betterment of mankind. (tvtropes.org)
  • Immediately preceding the events of Half-Life 1, Kleiner, Eli, and Barney all feature heavily, as does Dr. Rosenberg from Blue Shift. (pcgamesn.com)
  • The team gave me the idea of being serious people so I storngly believe thay'll take in account all the feedback and deliver a far superior sequel (I believe PoE 2 will be what BG 2 was compared to BG 1). (obsidian.net)
  • Neither Half Life 2: Episode Three nor Half-Life 3 materialized, and many people think they never will. (emphy.de)
  • I like stories about people learning something new and changing their lives for the better, but the reason this memoir only got three stars was because it is overwritten. (goodreads.com)
  • Pastor Lynn Holmes, CEO of Calvary Pictures, also said in the statement that "Indivisible" shows that people were never meant to live life on their own strength. (christianpost.com)
  • Hunt The Cunt (abbreviated as HTC) is a small map pack for Half-Life in which you take control of Jane Doe, a HECU grunt, while hunting for the assassin. (moddb.com)
  • This book is about the months she spent learning to build stuff with her hands, and learning to let go of her old life. (goodreads.com)