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Half-Life, Valve's debut 1998 title, blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, it also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Half-Life is also the debut of the 
GoldSrc engine, and was followed by a 
Source engine sequel in 2004, 
Half-Life 2.
A PlayStation 2 port of the game was released in 2001, developed by Gearbox Software, which features many changes which were not present in the PC version of the game.
On November 17, 2023, the game received a major update for its 25th anniversary[1], restoring the retail/WON menu UI, implementing proper widescreen support with Hor+ FOV and better UI scaling for high-DPI and 4K (or higher) displays, partially fixing support for overbright lighting, and much more. The game was also available for free to keep until November 20. Additionally, 
Half-Life: Uplink and content from was added to the game. The downside with this update however, is that several non-standalone GoldSrc mods (except custom content and textures) and games (like Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic and more) were initially broken with this update; Valve provides a beta build (steam_legacy) to revert to the version prior to the update, to fix the mod incompatibility.
Content
- Half-Life maps (valve)
- Half-Life HD pack (valve_hd)
- GoldSrc shared (valve)
- GoldSrc code
Chapters
Half-Life has total of 20 chapters, 19 of which are playable.
There are 14 (15 with Hazard Course) chapters set in Black Mesa and 4 (5 with Endgame) chapters set in Xen.
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 Hazard Course t0a0 |
 Black Mesa Inbound c0a0 |
 Anomalous Materials c1a0 |
 Unforeseen Consequences c1a0c |
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 Office Complex c1a2 |
 "We've Got Hostiles!" c1a3 |
 Blast Pit c1a4 |
 Power Up c2a1 |
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 On a Rail c2a2 |
 Apprehension c2a3 |
 Residue Processing c2a4 |
 Questionable Ethics c2a4d |
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 Surface Tension c2a5 |
 "Forget About Freeman!" c3a1 |
 Lambda Core c3a2 |
 Xen c4a1 |
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 Gonarch's Lair c4a2 |
 Interloper c4a1a |
 Nihilanth c4a3 |
 Endgame c5a1 |
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Official multiplayer maps
Credits
These are the official credits for "Half-Life", as released in November of 1998:
Uncredited Voice work:
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Bugs and Limitations
Visit GitHub page in order to prevent duplicate or outdated bug reports at the wiki.
For engine specific bugs, see Bugs and Limitations at GoldSrc page.
System Requirements
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 Note:The Steam version is no longer compatible with Windows XP and Vista[confirm] since the 25th anniversary update. User using these OS can downgrade to previous version of the game by using the steam_legacy beta branch instead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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