Half-Life 2: The Platinum Edition

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Combines all the elements of the Half-Life online universe, with new single and multiplayer content
• The original Half-Life returns with all its shooter adventure
• Half-Life 2 brings you exciting new game modes and new firearms for a more complete gaming experience
• Counter-Strike is an intense multiplayer gaming experience where you can be either a soldier or terrorist
• Go all-out for battles where it's every man for himself, in Deathmatch

Product Details

• ASIN: B000AOKXO4
• Media: CD-ROM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,074 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

This collection of games provides a great overview to the history of the Half-Life game franchise, including the start, Half-Life, and the latest expansion pack, Half-Life 2: Aftermath. Also included are Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Counter-Strike: Source, and Day of Defeat: Source

Half-Life: Source
Winner of over 50 Game of the Year awards, Half-Life set new standards for action games when it was released in 1998. Half-Life: Source is a digitally remastered version of the critically acclaimed and best selling PC game, enhanced via Source technology to include physics simulation, enhanced effects, and more.

As Gordon Freeman, a young research associate in the Anomalous Materials Laboratory of the Black Mesa Federal Research Facility, your mission is to investigate a strange crystalline being. You find yourself battling not only the alien monsters but also the government troops sent in to keep the crisis under wraps.

Half-Life 2
By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies.

Players again pick up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people he cares about are counting on him.

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Fast multiplayer action set in the Half-Life 2 universe! HL2's physics adds a new dimension to deathmatch play. Play straight deathmatch or try Combine vs. Resistance teamplay. Toss a toilet at your friend today!

Half-Life 2: Aftermath
Aftermath is the first expansion pack for Half-Life 2. The episode is set right after the end of Half-Life 2 and takes place as Alyx tries to escape from City 17. The Citadel is now crumbling apart in such a way that anyone left inside the city is doomed to die. Some old questions will be answered, while new ones will rise.

Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike is the #1 online action game in the world. Engage in a realistic brand of counter-terrorist warfare in this popular team-based game. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.

Day of Defeat: Source
This game features multiplayer, team-based gameplay set in the WWII European theatre of operations. Players choose a role and tackle goal-oriented missions based on historical operations.

Day of Defeat: Source takes the classic gameplay of the original Day of Defeat and improves the experience with Source, the advanced engine technology Valve created for Half-Life 2. With this technology, DoD: Source offers state of the art graphics (including support for HDR lighting) in optimized versions of popular maps, plus redesigned sound and all new player, weapon, and world models.

New Features:

• Completely updated maps to take full advantage of the Source engine replaces
• Integrated physics simulation for ragdolls and physically simulated objects
• Higher resolution textures throughout
• Bump mapping, specular lighting, and other graphic effects, all powered by advanced Source engine technology
• Completely redesigned user interface
• All new voice, weapon, and ambient sounds

Product Description

Half-Life 2 Platinum collects all the danger and thrills of the entire Half-Life universe. It's got the scary, deadly shooter gaming you crave. Includes the original Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Deathmatch and Counter-Strike. New animations with more menacing monsters than ever