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This is the first game in the Half-Life series. For other games in the series see the Half-Life category.

Box artwork for Half-Life.
Box artwork for Half-Life.
Half-Life
Developer(s)Valve Corporation
Publisher(s)Sierra Entertainment, Gearbox Software
Year released1998
System(s)Windows, PlayStation 2, macOS, Linux
Expansion pack(s)Half-Life: Opposing Force
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Decay
Followed byHalf-Life 2
SeriesHalf-Life
Genre(s)FPS
Players1-32
ModesSingle player
Rating(s)ESRB Mature
LinksHalf-Life at PCGamingWikiHalf-Life ChannelSearchSearch

Half-Life was developed by Valve Software and was released on November 20, 1998 for Windows. Half-Life raised the bar for FPS games, combining 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.

Story

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.

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