I didn't often feel lost in the game, a testament to how well everything flows together-though the game doesn't always distinguish between doors that can and cannot be opened in a way that is consistent. But I enjoyed Half-Life's insistence on having you check every room for buttons to hit, systems to activate, or even just supplies to gather. The level design is pretty good Finally getting this rocket to fire feels great If you manage to save him before he’s taken, you get access to some much needed supplies. The best one of these is a guard early on who has his back turned to an approaching zombie.
What’s also impressive is how you can miss valuable ammunition and health pickups by not helping security guards around the facility. The ensuing gunfight felt like a scramble to defend myself as I realized I was now going to be fighting enemies that could shoot back. I had seen enough Half-Life footage to know that I was going to fight some soldiers, but I was still taken aback the first time the military showed up and gunned down a scientist who thought he had finally been rescued. Upon landing, the legs collapsed and the tabletop crashed down onto the squealing headcrab, killing it instantly.Įven some moments that I knew were coming took me by surprise. In one of my personal favorites, I jumped down a vent shaft and saw a headcrab scuttle underneath a table I was about to land on. Early on in the game, after the experiment goes wrong, I was running through a hallway when a large mainframe on the wall exploded outwards, crashing down onto poor Gordon Freeman and splattering the physicist to pieces.
Half-Life pulls some neat little tricks with physics and scripted bits to create memorable moments. Many of its tricks still work I got a kick out of messing with the computer and the alarm here Every single time this happens it’s funny, and it was one of my favorite things in the game. The way they look and talk is a perfect setup for every time one of them gets yanked through a vent, followed by their bloody bits comically shooting out. Here are those things: The scientists are ridiculous So I played through Half-Life last week for the first time, 22 years late, and was surprised by a number of things. It’s one of those gaps in my video game history that I always knew I’d address someday, especially considering that the first-person shooter is one of my favorite genres, and I love immersive storytelling in games. That’s a long-winded way of saying that I had never played the first Half-Life game until now, and I felt I needed to correct that.
One of the side effects of discussions about Half-Life Alyx this year has been a forced reexamining of the series on my part.
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