Half Life 2

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• Comprehensive bundle of the award-winning first-person action-shooter Half-Life games
• Features Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition
• Half-Life: Opposing Force
• Team Fortress Classic and Half-Life: Counter-Strike
• Half-Life: Blue Shift

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006FXIN
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 2.3 inches
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 27, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,411 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Platinum Collection - Second

From the Manufacturer

In the beginning, there was Half-Life, Valve's blockbuster debut. With its engrossing story line, skeletal animation system, and so-good-it's-scary AI, Half-Life blew away the gaming world. The Half-Life universe grew with the release of Team Fortress, Opposing Force, and most recently Counter-Strike. These games pushed the Half-Life engine to its limits and beyond, adding exciting new story lines, weapons, enemies and multiplayer challenges. See for yourself why PC Game declared Half-Life "The Best PC Game Ever."

Half-Life Platinum includes Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Team Fortress Classic, Half-Life: Blue Shift, and Half-Life: Counter-Strike.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Half Life - Platinum Edition 2, October 29, 2003

By 

uffda_bill (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Half-Life (Platinum Collection) (Second Edition) (CD-ROM)

Honestly, this updated Platinum edition offers everything you could ever dream of in a first person "shooter" game.

In the edition, you'll get Half-Life, Opposing Force, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, and Blue Shift. All games are more than worthy of being called classics in their own time. And more specifically, Half-Life, OpFor, and Blue Shift allow you to play individually.

Now, what truly pushes this over the top is the ability to get ONLINE and fight with other human opponents! The online community is thriving. Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Team Fortress, and Opposing Force all allow online play or no sign-up/monthly fees. It's all FREE. There are nearly 1000 Half-Life servers and nearly 30,000 Counter-Strike servers world-wide!!!

As a lover of DOOM, Descent, and Duke Nukem 3D, I thought I had played all the best first-person shooter games (as of 1998). Then I played Half-Life! Since Half-Life 2 has not yet been released this still remains the BEST online Multiplayer First Person Shooter on the market today.

With an NVidia GForce2 and a 1GHz PIII, I am getting between 60-99 FPS (frames per second). The graphics are excellent and the play is smooth.

One warning though with this game: ONCE YOU PLAY IT ONLINE, YOU WILL NEVER EVER HAVE ENOUGH TIME IN YOUR LIFE TO PLAY THIS GAME. It is truly awesome and the Half-Life community is a welcoming one...as well as challenging. The Mod community is thriving as well...there are truly a multitude of Mods.

Simply put: BUY THIS GAME!!! GET CONNECTED!!! THEN PLAY UNTIL YOUR EYEBALLS ROLL BACK IN YOUR HEAD OR YOUR FINGERS FALL OFF.

You will never be sorry for buying this product. I have been playing this game online, every month for nearly 3 years...I have tried other games, but none compared to this one.

23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gordon Freeman : Be a Foot-Soldier for Valve !!!, December 24, 2004

By 

Donald Gillies "secretbearer" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Half-Life (Platinum Collection) (Second Edition) (CD-ROM)

I am a half-life lover - spent $1000 upgrading a PC in 1998 just to buy this game and it was well worth the money. This game is to PC games kinda like what STAR WARS was to space movies. It opened up a new parallel universe !!

You start the game feeling like an imposter in the skin of "Gordon Freeman" arriving for a day of work at Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico. Luckily, the helpful scientists ask you questions until you stumble into the lab and start doing what you need to do until the big bad accident ... and then aliens teleport in from another dimension, eating all the scientists and the military sends in Marine Commandos to kill EVERYTHING INCLUDING THE SCIENTISTS (YOU) to cover up the disaster completely !! The game really starts with you unconscious in the deepest bowels of this huge complex and you have to fight your way out - 1/3 solving puzzles, 1/3 killing aliens, and 1/3 facing hell-bent marines in your protective suit (as long as your battery pack is still alive) to help you overcome these problems. For the first time characters talk to you, animals move realistically, and the animal AI is incredible. Your first weapon of choice ?? A simple crowbar. Later weapons ?? Experimental prototypes from secret US Military programs !!!

Now I'm back 6 years later and look what's happened. It seems like Valve has the mother of all copyright protection problems. Not only were players pirating the CD's, even the distributor (Sierra) was pirating and selling Illicit copies of the CD's. Sierra was even selling duplicate retail boxes with duplicate keys to customers !! [...] and Valve hates Sierra and is in a legal fight but is contractually forced to deal with Sierra. You will have to be a foot soldier for Valve until the legal fight is won. To be a foot soldier, you must put up with Valve's copyright protection scheme which is called "Steam".

Before you get this game, [...] You will need a good broadband connection to install this game, because you will need to download several hundred megabytes of data. It will be tricky to run the game in the future without a broadband connection. It will be possible but you will have to plan ahead before disconnecting from the Internet.

If you can live with this hassle, you will be highly rewarded.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game, August 5, 2004

By 

SpIkE (Brazil) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Half-Life (Platinum Collection) (Second Edition) (CD-ROM)

This is the best game of all. I haven't played a game for so long like I play Half-Life, Counter-Strike and etc. And about the Steam feature, its the best too. I know it is a bit big, but its espeacilly for playing on internet. And if you want to play on internet, you HAVE to have a broadband connection, so the updates don't takes so much time. And about downloading the 723mb pack, no need too, because Steam converts yours game instalation of Half-Life and all mods to work with Steam. And about this pack, yes, its better to buy the Half-Life only CD, but then you will need to download Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Opposing Force, and no Blueshift will be there. So, you choose what you want

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