Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• Named "Game of the Year" by more than 40 publications, including Computer Gaming World
• Includes new multiplayer models and maps as well as Team Fortress Classic
• Contains a variety of real-world, experimental, and alien-world weapons
• Supports 32 players on Internet/LAN
• Needed to play Counterstrike, They Hunger, and the other popular Half-Life mods on the Net

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00032R70G
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,379 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com

Your gun had better be loaded if you're playing Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition, the smartest, shootingest, bloodiest game ever to hit the PC. Take control of a scientist charged with destroying the alien invasion force that arrived, courtesy of government experiments gone wrong. Of course, the post-X-Files world brings additional bad guys in the form of federal "cleaners" who want you just as dead as the monsters.

Power up your environmental suit and plunge through level after level of increasingly difficult and creepy challenges, rescuing your fellow scientists and ultimately clearing out the whole complex--if you're lucky. Gameplay is smooth and simple, after the obligatory false starts and botched maneuvers common to learning every new game. Persistence pays off, though: Half-Life rewards tenacity with increasing power and understanding of the virtual world.

Play on a network and cooperate or compete with folks across the world or in the next cubicle. For those who've mastered the intricacies of Half-Life, the Game of the Year Edition includes Worldcraft 2.0, which was used by the designers to build every detail of the base. Make your own levels and snicker at other players' pathetic attempts to evade your deathtraps. It's easy to see why Half-Lifewon Game of the Year from dozens of publications. Try it and see for yourself--if you're not too squeamish.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A timeless masterpiece, March 10, 2005

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Paul (Nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition (CD-ROM)

Half-Life has won numerous awards and has been nominated by gamers on Gamespy.com as the best game of all time.
Half-Life was released back in 1999 and it still goes strong today, being the heart and soul of the #1 multiplayer game of today: Counterstrike.
If you could only purchase one game, this should be it. DO NOT miss out on this great title. Go out and get it today!
Innovative action, great conspiracy storyline that will keep you glued until the last minute. The plot unravels nicely as you travel deeper into the Lambda complex, a secret research facility that's been overrun by mysterious forces. You're one of the few left alive and you're trying to make it out in one piece. But it seems that the government knows about the incident and is even on top of things!

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic First-Person Shooter, December 19, 2009

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Ryan Bowersox "FloridaGator1Card" (FL) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition (CD-ROM)

This was the very first first-person shooter game I ever played. Needless to say, it was by far the best first-person shooter I ever played. Of course they've come out with far better games since...but for the time when this game came out...it was by far the best.

Don't bother playing Half-Life 2 until you've played this one first! And don't cheat, it's infinitely more fun to figure it out!

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not waste your money!, November 12, 2009

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Philip M. Thompson - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition (CD-ROM)

By no means am I rating the game. The game is a masterpiece: 10/10! I ordered this online and it was $75.00. Now I see it has risen to over $90.00 in just two weeks! Absurd! Well, I ordered it and it arrived on time. I installed it on my computer and it brought up a message saying how my computer did not have enough memory. I have invested thousands of dollars into my computer, and it is more powerful than most. Stupid me could have bought the game for $9.99 on my Steam account, and that is what I ended up doing. You can probably buy this game for that price on Amazon or elsewhere. And the $9.99 version works great on my computer. All I have to say is that I will never buy from this seller again as it was a complete ripoff!