SPOILER ALERT
Welcome to Half Life 1.

In this game you will:

Be stunned as your health rapidly drops due to headcrabs
Not figure out you had a flashlight to see said headcrabs in the dark
Be shot to bits by marines
Be shot to death by aliens
Be shot to death by frog-slug things
Be shot to death by security guards with bad aim
Try to escort cowardly scientists that refuse to go another step
Abandon said scientists for the sake of game enjoyment
Blow your self up attempting to rocket jump
Get killed by monster fish
Get ignored by monster fish
Get electrocuted by aliens
Get blown up by trip wires
Kill yourself on tripwires
Kill yourself on grenades
Kill yourself on explosive crates
Kill yourself on explosive barrels
Fight ninjas
Get blown up in a pipe
Get killed by suicide beetles
Get sniped by sniper
Get sniped by turrent
Do parkour while being shot at
Do said parkour flawlessly and slip on a pipe while walking straight.
Slip on water and land into an elevator shaft
Get electrocuted by electric water
Waste all your power armor on headcrabs
Blow up tanks
Blow up helicopters
Get blown up by tanks and helicopters
Get killed by surprise turrents
Get stuck about 50,000 times
Try so hard to keep all scientists and security guards alive
Play 33 hours without getting halfway through
Jump into the room after the assassins with the medkit --- seriously it prevents a gamebreaking bug
Drown
Navigate a minefield by shooting at it
Blow up not so expecting marines with C4
Get blown up by marines with grenades
Get killed by underestimated zombie health
Battle the combine --- jk thats hl2.
Battle the illuminati --- jk thats hl3
Play multiplayer and die
Witness strange glimpses of the mysterious gman
Get radiated
Get flame grilled
Get disentagrated
Get hl2
Make hl3

All in all the game is a top-notch, excellent, 10/10 sci-fi shooter themed "i should have saved the game back there" simulator.

>Hits a guard accidentaly
>Guard starts shooting without stopping
This is the half life's engine ladies and gentlemen

18 years after the release of this game, I feel a sudden desire to review it, as if anyone doesn't know about its acclaim already.

The videogame that marked Valve's global debut, HALF-LIFE is an absolutely genre-defining release. Fresh for its time, unique, different, and still fun, it took the PC gaming world by storm in the late 90s, with its critical praise following it greatly into the turn of the century, with a large modding community and a great engine (GoldSrc) that carried a fulfilling lifespan until the release of its successor, the dominant Source Engine.

In HALF-LIFE, you are put into the shoes of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a 27 year-old theoretical physicist working for the mysterious BLACK MESA Research Facility located in New Mexico. After an experimental test goes wrong, Gordon is found fighting for his life, defending himself from hostile alien lifeforms crossing over to Earth from the borderworld, Xen, after the experiment creates a resonance cascade, opening an interdimensional portal between planets. Gordon meets many of his colleagues along the way, struggling for their own safety against the alien forces, and eventually, the massive military unit HECU, sent to wipe out anything related to the incident. Gordon travels through numerous complexes, canyons, and worlds in his quest for survival.

But that's the special thing about Half-Life: it never feels like you're just "playing as Gordon Freeman." It feels like every action is your own. Every step, jump, and gunshot is a power that YOU hold, not just something you're telling the protagonist to do. This is a goal that Valve had set out to achieve, a goal that was realized through the use of NO protagonist dialogue, an uncommon detail in FPS games at the time. This helped breathe life into the games motto: Run, Think, Shoot, Live.

The controls are great, with the same control scheme being subsequently used in most future Valve games. The gunplay is fun, with a fair amount of weaponry, both human and alien. The atmosphere is what I truly think makes the game. It brings such a feeling of desperation, dread, and isolation that I didn't quite get in the future titles. A true "you against the world" feeling, where every corner can pose a new threat. It's such an intense feeling of cold desolation, unforgiving and eerie as every footstep echoes throughout the metallic hallways that stretch deeper into treacherous facilities.

This is a game that greatly defined my vision of what games should be. It has so much heart put into it that it's mindblowing for a debut game. There's just so much life in Half-Life that I find myself replaying it every so often to this day. Despite its look, it never grows old. It may be difficult to get into if you haven't played before, but anyone who has played it could tell you it's worth the time.

There's not enough good things that I can say about Half-Life, but it's best if you experience it and decide for yourself. While not without its flaws, this is still about as close as I can get to considering a game perfection. Everybody should give this at least one playthrough in their lifetime.

My review is here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpZVnVAsVc

Half-Life was the first game I played on Steam.

a masterpiece doesn't need good graphics

This game made me rethink first-person shooters. It's extremely well done in just about every regard. At this point, the graphics are outdated. But I never minded. My only gripe with Half-Life is that it's too long for what it is. A lot of the situations it puts you through are repeated with only subtle tweeks along the way. This 18 chapter story could've been done in 12-14, and the whole game would've felt more concise as a result. That being said, it's still an amazing classic and a must-play for gamers. 9/10

its letting me make this reiew even though i havent even bought the game. but, it is a good game. i reccomend it to anyone who can play a game with old graphics and alot of edges.

Half Life 1 Pc introduced in 1998 the most important control pattern in Pc: WASD + MOUSE for aiming AS DEFAULT

Other previous games such us Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Quake I and II (even Doom 1993) can get configured for WASD, but their default setup had the arrows for movement. HL invented WASD

I am gonna repeat it: DEFAULT WASD + MOUSE
Thank you Valve
BTW when I played HL in 1999 I thought it was the best game ever. Now, in 2016 and having played hundreds of games, I can confirm ir is still the BEST FPS EVER.

Got a new computer and for some reason I don't have the game anymore.
Which is sad because I was half way through it and it was bad ♥♥♥.