This is a review for the Half-Life soundtrack as tracks to listen to outside of a gaming session.

Half-Life's music is predominantly electronic/mechanical tracks, mixed in with some ambient tracks. The music serves very well as background to the game itself, in that it merges with your surroundings, and doesn't really stand out all that much. A few of the tracks triggered some memories from playing the game, however, the majority of the music is not particularly memorable. That being said, the music on this soundtrack is rather pleasant to listen to for the most part, so it's worth adding to a collection.

Absolutely worth having for the price, and it's a perfectly serviceable album. Not one of the best game albums I've ever listened to, but definitely enjoyable.

The Soundtrack in all of the Half-Life games are very interesting, most so in the first game. Why? Because when you first hear "Half-Life Soundtrack" you will have a hard time remembering any soundtrack at all. I would like to call the original Half-Life Soundtrack more of a collection of Noise, because that's what it is. That does not make it any less epic though, rather the opposite.

Half-Life has always relied Extremely on the environments and creating these atmospheres that eclipses most games by miles. These ambient sounds, the soundtrack, are one of the biggest contributing factors for such Amazing atmospheres that these games have.

So when you finally play the "soundtrack" you will be met by such an enormous nostalgic hug that you will fall off your chair. Because even though this is not "Rock Anthem for Saving the World" or any of the other catchy soundtracks. Your mind will still have picked these tunes up subconsciously and they bring out these emotions related to the atmospheres you experienced so many years ago.

I am just filled with joy listening to this very odd, very satisfying "soundtrack". Love it.

Composer: Kelly Bailey

Some favorite tracks:
2. "Vague Voices"
3. "Klaxon Beat"
10. "Valve Theme [Extended]"
12. "Alien Shock"
24. "Credits Closing Theme"

Half-Life 1 has DLC.
11/10

This release of the Half-Life soundtrack contains all tracks present in the game endoced into MP3 at 320 kbps with a 44.1 KHz sample rate in Stereo. This is, by far, higher quality than the audio you will hear from Half-Life in-game, as that is encoded as MP3 at 48 kbps with a 22.05 KHz sample rate in Stereo. The only higher quality release than this was the original Red Book CD Audio that was present on Half-Life's retail disc, considering that it is uncompressed Stereo PCM at 44.1 KHz.

It is worth noting that this release does not include two versions of tracks that were present on the Red Book CD Audio of the 1997 press alpha. The Steam Half-Life 2 soundtrack release (which is a digital release of The Soundtrack of Half-Life 2 sold with the Gold edition of Half-Life 2 and formerly on the Valve Store) contains tracks which were unused, present in development versions of the game and press demos, and remixed. Some may consider the soundtrack incomplete without these tracks.

Unfortunately, almost all tracks have static lasting around a tenth of a second before they end. This unintentional artifact is present when played by any media player or audio editing software. The only exception is Track 27 Sharp Fear Short.

Album artwork is included as a seperate file, but is not included in the ID3 information for the tracks. While this means that each track has a lower filesize, attaching it to each file is the only reliable way to ensure that the album art always displays. The included artwork can be added manually, but this requires user action.

Outside of the game, the Half-Life soundtrack has a good mix of ambient and action music to listen to.

Despite its flaws, this is an overall decent soundtrack release.

A great soundtrack by Valve, recommended!

Its A Great Addition To Half Life, being able to listen to the soundtrack whenever you want!

Amazing, great to remember all those frustrating moments of being a modern gamer stuck in a ninetys game (or at least that was my experience) highly recomended.

This is DLC for Half-Life, GG Valve, GG.

gg

Half Life 1's soundtrack, remastered, free for owners of said game.

its fiken awesome, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Goods!!!