Half-Life/en
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 Half-Life: Further Data 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.
Contents
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 Courset0a0 |
Black Mesa Inboundc0a0 |
Anomalous Materialsc1a0 |
Unforeseen Consequencesc1a1 |
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Office Complexc1a2 |
"We've Got Hostiles!"c1a3 |
Blast Pitc1a4 |
Power Upc2a1 |
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On a Railc2a2 |
Apprehensionc2a3 |
Residue Processingc2a4 |
Questionable Ethicsc2a4d |
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Surface Tensionc2a5 |
"Forget About Freeman!"c3a1 |
Lambda Corec3a2 |
Xenc4a1 |
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Gonarch's Lairc4a2 |
Interloperc4a1a |
Nihilanthc4a3 |
Endgamec5a1 |
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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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See also
- Half-Life ports:
Black Mesa - Remake of Half-Life- Half-Life 2 - Sequel to Half-Life
- Half-Life.fgd
- Half-Life SDK
- Mods on VDC
