Half-Life was the breakout hit that put Valve Software on the map. Again, if you love the universe of Half Life (and Portal by later extension), definitely give this game a try, you will not be disappointed!
Being an “expansion” on Half Life, that is to be expected I suppose, but it really does deliver an excellent experience while only being around half the length of the base game. Some of the new aliens are also quite spongy and use a lot of ammo to kill, but if you like that sort of thing you may find it as a positive!Īll in all this is a very solid game. Namely, it is much stingier with health pickups so you’ll really have to think through your encounters. I really have no complaints either with this game, though I would say it’s much more difficult than the first. You will even get to experience events from the first game in different spaces and see different people’s reactions to the chaos. These new aliens are an entirely new race as you can find out through some external reading, and there are even more human enemies too. There are also a plethora of new aliens to learn and fight against while exploring some never before seen areas of the Black Mesa facility. Additionally, you will find some other troops a few times who can help you clear areas and are quite competent for 1999 AI teammates, while sometimes healing you if you find a medic. Your arsenal is mostly the same as Gordon Freeman’s, however, you do have some new things, such as a lizard-like alien that spews toxic sludge at foes and a gun that teleports you to Xen for health and ammo refills! Those slight charges made it quite interesting without overhauling the formula you grew to love over the first game. Your helicopter gets taken down as you’re entering the Black Mesa perimeter, and everything goes down hill from there. In this game you play as one of the military personnel you see throughout Half Life 1, Corporal Adrien Shepherd. The controls and design are the same as that now-classic game and while the story over all may not be as good as the first game, there is still a lot of fun times here. On the outset, if you enjoyed Half Life, you certainly will enjoy this game a whole lot. Opposing Force is very derivative of this experience but this is most definitely a positive, not a detractor. Half Life was a ground breaking FPS game with an amazing story and universe it created to boot. I guess it's tradition that this one isn't any different. I still have gripes with it's latter sections, but I have similar feelings about most Half-Life games, dipping quality here and there. Enough enemies and weapons are introduced to make it feel new, and the same sort of level and game design is present to keep it familiar. It's to the extent that I consider this game to be an almost direct accompanying piece to it. The same endearing style that HL1 has is carried over pretty faithfully here. If I have tons of weapons and ammo, I need more enemies to fight to make it challenging, but fighting tons of enemies in a row with Half-Life's mechanics gets a little stale for me. I don't dislike the gunplay or anything, but I'm not exactly sure I get *how* I'm supposed to enjoy the more straightforward fights in this game as divorced from environmental and resource limited circumstances. By that time the weapon choices have expanded further and people who enjoy Half-Life solely for the shooting parts will probably have more fun with it than I did. The latter half of the game features a lot of firefights with big aliens and bullet spongy black ops guys. I wish some of the high stakes puzzle elements and shorter encounters could have stayed around longer. But there's something about a soldier being lost in the chaos of a collapsing research facility overrun by aliens and black ops that better captured that background storytelling thing the Half-Life games do than in the first. I'm "something of a scientist myself" and want as little to do with the military in real life as in fiction. It's funny that I identify more with this protagonist than in HL1. It wasn't until the more action heavy latter half that my praise wavers a bit. The initial few missions in particular are really well done. Half-Life 2 is my preferred version of the series, and yet parts of this one worked for me in ways Half-Life 1 failed to.
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