You can play Half-Life in its original incarnation on Steam, or you can try Black Mesa, an acclaimed fan-made update/remaster that is truly a labor of love. Its graphics are quite dated by now, but the gameplay remains superb - particularly the tense encounters with enemy grunts who will take cover and even try to flank you. Its called Alley Cat and its even older than I am. Half-Life's creative creature designs, superb enemy A.I., palpably atmospheric setting, and masterful pacing all combined to make it an instant classic, quite possibly the best FPS of all time. First game I ever played was a cat game on my dads old IBM computer. Overseeing the proceedings is a mysterious G-Man who bears a striking similarity to The X-Files's Cigarette Smoking Man, and whose presence adds a frisson of government paranoia to the experience. ![]() Before long, you're grappling with an invasion of hostile extraterrestrials - as well as soldiers whose job is to clean up the mess by eradicating anything that moves, friend or foe. You play Gordon Freeman, a mild-mannered nuclear physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility who gets caught up in a teleportation experiment gone horribly awry. Instead of just dropping the player into monster-filled levels, Half-Life slowly introduced its situations with in-engine cutscenes, expository dialogue, and deliberate-yet-relentless pacing. ![]() ![]() Half-Life brought a new level of storytelling panache to the still-young FPS genre. ( Yes i bought the game on PC) The model is Mad catz tournament edition round 2, yeah its pretty old, bought it like 5-6 years ago.
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