Half-Life

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  Alternate box artwork.

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  Inside cover of above box.

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  Artwork for the game.

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