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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.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two was released in 2007. Episode Three was scheduled for release by Christmas 2007, [14] but was canceled as Valve found the episodic model contrary to their growing ambition for new installments. [43] After canceling several further Half-Life projects, Valve released a prequel, Half-Life: Alyx, in 2020. [44]
Day of Defeat is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game set in the European theatre of World War II on the Western front. Originally a modification of the 1998 game Half-Life, the rights of the modification were purchased by Valve and released as a full retail title in 2003.
It was canceled after Valve abandoned episodic development and began developing a new game engine, Source 2. [27] After canceling several further Half-Life games, Valve released Half-Life: Alyx in 2020. [28] In November 2024, Valve delisted Episode One and Two from the Steam Store and incorporated them into Half-Life 2. [29]
[100] Halo 3's iteration of Forge has received comparisons to Garry's Mod, a 2004 Half-Life 2 mod with a similar emphasis on free-form construction and experimentation. [101] [102] [98] Outside of its intended use as a map editor, Forge has been used to create art installations by arranging in-game props to draw pictures and write messages. [103]
Left 4 Dead 2 is a 2009 first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve.The sequel to Left 4 Dead (2008) and the second game in the Left 4 Dead series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in November 2009, Mac OS X in October 2010, and Linux in July 2013.
A new single-player campaign, The Doctor Who Cloned Me, was released on December 13, 2011. [31] It sees the return of Duke's nemesis from the original Duke Nukem game, Dr. Proton, [32] and adds new weapons, enemies, bosses and multiplayer maps. [31] It holds a score of 52/100 on Metacritic for PC [33] and 58/100 for Xbox 360. [34]