Half-Life Review [PC]
Half-Life is an indie game developed by Valve Software and published by Gearbox Webhosting in 2010. You play through the game's five-hour campaign as Gordon Freeman, MIT's latest, most graduated theoretical physicist. Gordon and his trusty crowbar fight and battle their way through hundreds of aliens and soldiers to escape from the Black Mesa Research Facility.
The first thing I'm going to be telling you about is the gameplay, because that's the first thing you notice when booting up a new game, such as Half-Life. At the start of the game, you can talking to scientists and security guards but they are all too busy and are rude. It doesn't let you shoot them because you don't have a gun yet, though. Later when you do, you can.
The guns in Half-Life are very creative and unique. You have an assault rifle, a pistol, a shotgun, a melee weapon, grenades, and a few other weapons. I have never seen a game with those weapons, it's an entirely new concept that I'm pretty sure is new and entirely new concept and nobody has ever seen it before.
Here lies the problem with Half-Life: the graphics. This game's graphics are probably the worst graphics in a modern video game to date. I know that at least 80% of you PC video gamers out there have top-of-the-line hardware and graphics processors, so you guys will be accustomed to amazing graphics. If you are looking for a game with decent graphics, this is not it. I cannot stress that enough.
I know that some of you will be like "but SmoothStyle, this game is only from 2010, give it some slack!" I think that is wrong. I feel that a game should be able to stand on its own merits and not be held back by the social whims and trends of society. Just look a Skyrim for example. That game came out in what, 2009? That game had gorgeous graphics compared to the monstrosities of Half-Life's graphics.
If you haven't had enough of Half-Life's awfulness, you can play the two expansion packs that Valve made a little while later. There's Half-Life: Blue Operations, where you play as a security guard and it takes like ten minutes to beat. They also released Half-Life: The Lost Levels for the 3DS, but I can't talk about that one because this is a website for PC games only.
Gameplay............27
Graphics.............-54
Compatibility.....10
Sound.....................8
Story.......................3
Overall..................-6
Pick it up on Steam-- if you dare...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/70
The first thing I'm going to be telling you about is the gameplay, because that's the first thing you notice when booting up a new game, such as Half-Life. At the start of the game, you can talking to scientists and security guards but they are all too busy and are rude. It doesn't let you shoot them because you don't have a gun yet, though. Later when you do, you can.
The guns in Half-Life are very creative and unique. You have an assault rifle, a pistol, a shotgun, a melee weapon, grenades, and a few other weapons. I have never seen a game with those weapons, it's an entirely new concept that I'm pretty sure is new and entirely new concept and nobody has ever seen it before.
Here lies the problem with Half-Life: the graphics. This game's graphics are probably the worst graphics in a modern video game to date. I know that at least 80% of you PC video gamers out there have top-of-the-line hardware and graphics processors, so you guys will be accustomed to amazing graphics. If you are looking for a game with decent graphics, this is not it. I cannot stress that enough.
I know that some of you will be like "but SmoothStyle, this game is only from 2010, give it some slack!" I think that is wrong. I feel that a game should be able to stand on its own merits and not be held back by the social whims and trends of society. Just look a Skyrim for example. That game came out in what, 2009? That game had gorgeous graphics compared to the monstrosities of Half-Life's graphics.
If you haven't had enough of Half-Life's awfulness, you can play the two expansion packs that Valve made a little while later. There's Half-Life: Blue Operations, where you play as a security guard and it takes like ten minutes to beat. They also released Half-Life: The Lost Levels for the 3DS, but I can't talk about that one because this is a website for PC games only.
Gameplay............27
Graphics.............-54
Compatibility.....10
Sound.....................8
Story.......................3
Overall..................-6
Pick it up on Steam-- if you dare...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/70
Reviewed by SmoothStyle