Half-Life

Half-Life was developed by Valve Software and was released on November 20, 1998 for the PC. Half-Life raised the bar on FPSs, combining First Person Shooter action, amazing graphics (for the time), and exciting linear gameplay. The storytelling in the game is revealed level-by-level through several scripted sequences which places the player in new situations. Half-Life has won 50 Game Of The Year awards from major publications and is considered a marvel in gaming.

You are Dr. Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist who works at Black Mesa, a secret government facility located in New Mexico. You and your team of scientists are eager to try a new experiment, and you volunteer to be in it. You take a hazard suit and head down to the test chamber. Everything is going well, but a major problem occurs in the experiment and now you and the other survivors must escape from Black Mesa alive.

Table of Contents

 * 1) Getting Started
 * 2) Versions
 * 3) Characters
 * 4) Controls
 * 5) Walkthrough
 * 6) Black Mesa Inbound
 * 7) Anomalous Materials
 * 8) Unforeseen Consequences
 * 9) Office Complex
 * 10) "We've Got Hostiles!"
 * 11) Blast Pit
 * 12) Power Up
 * 13) On A Rail
 * 14) Apprehension
 * 15) Residue Proceeding
 * 16) Questionable Ethics
 * 17) Surface Tension
 * 18) Forget About Freeman
 * 19) Lambda Core
 * 20) Xen
 * 21) Gonarch's Lair
 * 22) Interloper
 * 23) Nihalinth
 * 24) Appendices
 * 25) Weapons
 * 26) Items
 * 27) Enemies
 * 28) Multiplayer
 * 29) Secrets
 * 30) Miscellaneous