The only reason why my original Half-Life ranking did not make it to the top ten in my personal ranking of the most popular games of all time was its totally unmanageable conclusion. Not that I didn't get mad at the game, but after perpetual watching the arrow on the map, the invisible walls preventing the fall into the abyss, or the glowing hit zones near the bosses, I felt after a long time that I was not just dragged on a leash, but I really play. You will often have to go back over a significant part of the map, encounter conventional weapons unbeatable opponents and the exception is not even the necessity of millimeter accurate jumps. When I compare it to most modern production, which, despite taking place in much more detailed worlds, basically only alternates creeping passages with action ones, it seems like a step backwards.īlack Mesa also shows that many of the mechanics that are now thought to be outdated today are actually great when they work well. There is also a classic shootout against odds and in the end the game turns all the rules upside down and becomes something like a psychedelic platformer.Īll these forms work great, so you never know what to expect in the next level. Sometimes it is a regular horror, where you sneak through the dark offices and save every charge, sometimes basically a space adventure, where you have to think carefully where and how you need to get. I am still fascinated by how masterfully the authors were able to work with the pace of the narrative. Although the story itself has no great depth, it can tie players to it. Despite the graphics, which despite all its improvements on today's competition is significantly losing, the game retained the atmosphere. But that doesn't mean he doesn't work again in Black Mesa. Today, this section does not sit on anyone's ass, because we have seen it many times before. Being a refund at that time, who knows how many people would be able to hold on to this genius game until it really started. An unimaginable five-minute passage where you can just look around? What's that supposed to be? And it wasn't over, for at least half an hour had passed before the main character ever got a gun in his hands. The initial unplayable sequence during which Gordon Freeman arrives at the Black Mesa Research Center, which will soon be attacked by aggressive extraterrestrials, has clearly indicated that a revolution is coming. On the contrary, it was, at first sight, a self-functioning world, through which the hero protrudes as if unintentionally, although everything is, of course, prepared and detailed in detail. This is mainly due to the brilliant level suggestions, which did not resemble a self-purposeful maze filled with monsters. Not that he was the first shooter from the perspective of his own eyes, who has ever tried to tell the story in addition to the action, but unlike all the previous, but he really did. When the first Half-Life came out in 1998, he changed the game world without the slightest exaggeration. Fourteen years since the announcement, a remake of the cult Half-Lif has finally come out, and even if it lags behind in terms of graphics, it can withstand the biggest hits of today. It took a long time, but waiting paid off. The Half-Life name is sometimes stylized as Hλlf-Life, with the Greek lambda sign (λ), referring both to the Lambda Complex, one of the sectors of the Black Mesa Research Facility (in which the original game took place) where the first portal to Xen was created, as well as to the symbol for the decay constant of the half-life of a quantity.Black Mesa's iconic Half-Life is as fun as it was 20 years ago The player, a silent scientist named Gordon Freeman, is involved in an experimental analysis of an extraterrestrial artifact however, the experiment goes horribly wrong, and opens a dimensional rift between Black Mesa and another world called Xen, causing alien monsters to swarm the facility and kill many of its personnel. The Half-Life series begins in the early 21st century at the fictional Black Mesa Research Facility in New Mexico. The Half-Life series of games is based in a science fiction alternative universe, and comprises the Half-Life games (Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Half-Life: Alyx) and the Portal games (Portal 1, Portal 2). The Half-Life game series is based in a science fiction alternative universe, and encompasses the Half-Life games (1, 2, the latter's episodic content, and Alyx) and Portal games (1, 2).
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