Half-Life 2 was another acclaimed entry that refined and improved upon the first title's core gameplay, and it later received two shorter episodic instalments with Episode One and Episode Two, which continued from the game's ending. This found protagonist Gordon Freeman awakened to changed world controlled by alien forces, and it's down to him and the human resistance to fight back. It also received an acclaimed expansion pack called Opposing Force in 1999 from Gearbox Software, who also developed the game's PS2 port a Dreamcast port was also completed but was abruptly cancelled due to the consoles declining sales.įans had to wait six years for Half-Life's cliffhanger ending to be resolved, which came in the form of 2004's Half-Life 2.
Half-Life's blend of world-building, immersive storytelling and frantic combat made it a breath of fresh air in 1998, and soon other FPS titles were racing to meet the gauntlet it threw down. The original Half-Life is regarded as one of the most important first-person shooters ever made, and with good reason. Half-Life 2's Ravenholm level turned the game into a gripping survival horror experience.
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