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Half-Life is a first-person shooter that requires the player to perform combat tasks and puzzle solving to advance through the game. Unlike most first-person shooters at the time, which relied on cut-scene intermissions to detail their plotlines, Half-Life ' s story is told mostly using scripted sequences (bar one short cutscene), keeping the player in control of the first-person viewpoint.
In 1998, a few months before the game's release, an OEM demo titled Half-Life: Day One was released [24] On February 12, 1999, the second demo, Half-Life: Uplink, was released [ 25 ] Team Fortress Classic
In December 2008, Valve announced that the two main Half-Life games had sold 15.8 million units in retail (9.3m for the first, 6.5m for the second), while the Half-Life expansions [85] had sold 1.9 million (Opposing Force: 1.1 million, Blue Shift: 800,000) and Half-Life 2 expansions 1.4 million units (all for Episode One) by the end of November ...
Half-Life 2: Episode One is a 2006 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve for Windows. It continues the story of Half-Life 2 (2004). As the scientist Gordon Freeman, players must escape City 17 with Gordon's companion Alyx Vance. Like previous Half-Life games, Episode One combines shooting, puzzles and storytelling.
It made its debut in 1998 with Half-Life and powered future games developed by or with oversight from Valve, including Half-Life 's expansions, Day of Defeat and games in the Counter-Strike series. GoldSrc was succeeded by the Source engine with the releases of Half-Life: Source, Half-Life 2, and Counter-Strike: Source in 2004.
In the Half-Life saga, Gordon Freeman is a silent protagonist who, despite lacking formal weapon training, survives a chaotic inter-dimensional incident at the Black Mesa Research Facility. In Half-Life 2, after being kept in stasis for nearly two decades, Freeman battles the Combine Empire to liberate Earth. He gains legendary status and ...
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On May 26, 2010, Half-Life 2, Episode One and Episode Two were released for Mac OS X. [27] In 2013, Valve ported Half-Life 2 to Linux [28] and released a free update adding support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. [29] An NVIDIA Shield Tablet-exclusive port for Android was released on May 12, 2014. [30]