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Full controller support
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About
Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist who must escape from the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is overrun by aliens following a disastrous scientific experiment. Its gameplay consists of diverse combat, exploration and puzzles.
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Genres
Adventure
Puzzle
Shooter
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Multiplayer
Single player
A.i. companion
Alien invasion
Aliens
Animal weaponry
Another world
Assassin
Blindness
Bloody
Boss fight
Burning
Cheat code
Checkpoints
Conspiracy
Darkness
Death
Death match
Dedicated servers
Destructible environment
Difficulty level
Digital distribution
Digital rights management
Elevator ambush
Explosion
Falling damage
First-person platforming
Foreshadowing
Friendly fire
Fully customizable controls
Game with chapters
God mode
Gravity
Human
In-engine cinematic
Infinite spawn
Instant kill
Interactive environments
Inverted controls
Invisible wall
Jumping puzzle
Linear gameplay
Machinima
Male protagonist
Melee
Meme origin
Mercenary
Military
Mod support
Multiplayer lan
Multiple endings
Non-player character
Novint falcon support
One-man army
Outside of the map
Pc to console port
Polygonal 3D
Professional gaming
Quickloading
Quicksaving
Radiation
Real-time combat
Regional censorship
Retail games with steam activation
Run and gun
Scientist
Scripted events
Silent protagonist
Slavery
Speedrun
Steam
Strafe-jumping
Suicide
Tank
Team deathmatch
Teleportation
Text dialogue
Vending machine interaction
Vent crawling
Voice acting
Wasd movement
Linux
Mac
Pc (microsoft windows)
First person
Action
Horror
Science fiction
Thriller
Warfare
