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Opposing Force was received well by critics, with many describing it as the new benchmark title for expansion packs, in a similar fashion to how Half-Life revolutionized the first-person shooter genre. Other reviewers, however, thought that, despite its accomplishments, it still suffered from the negative aspects of other expansion packs.
Opposing Force was received favorably by critics, [8] many citing the game as being as influential on setting expansion pack standards as the original game had been in influencing the overall genre. [9] [10] [11] The game won the Computer Game of the Year Interactive Achievement Award of 2000 from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. [12]
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.
An opposing force (alternatively enemy force, abbreviated OPFOR or OpFor) is a military unit tasked with representing an enemy, usually for training purposes in war game scenarios. The related concept of aggressor squadron is used by some air forces.
Opposing Force: September 26, 1986: Foreign Body: November 7, 1986: Something Wild: $7 million: $8,362,969 November 14, 1986: Hoosiers [note 8] distribution only; produced by Hemdale Film Corporation Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2001: $9 million: $28,607,524 December 12, 1986: Three Amigos [note 12] co-production with HBO Films ...
As in Opposing Force, Blue Shift shows the events of Half-Life from the perspective of a different protagonist. The player assumes the role of Barney Calhoun, a security guard working near the labs where the accident takes place. Calhoun is responsible for the preservation of equipment and materials and the welfare of research personnel, and ...
Poison Profits. A HuffPost / WNYC investigation into lead contamination in New York City
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