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Okay so whats the story of the first Half-Life? If it sounds good enough I am gonna buy it.
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BTNHadrien
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steam?
Gah.... I am really, really going to save this to a text file, I've typed it several times over 
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Firstly, you really should buy HL1. Of course, it's a graphically poor game by today's standards, but the gameplay still is top notch, and some of the AI is also still great. It's not quite like HL2, but there are many similarities.
OK now, the story.
You're Gordon Freeman, 27, with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the MIT. The game starts as you're on a tram in the Black Mesa Research Facility, New Mexico, USA. Your position is a research associate at the Anomalous Materials labs. After the tram ride (which is very famous), you arrive at the Anomalous Materials lobby.
Mind you, you have no weapon or enemies at this point, something HL became famous for. The guard in the lobby tells you that you were supposed to be in the test chamber half an hour ago. There are other scientists in the rooms that will tell you to go to the test chamber and that they'd be happy to speak after the experiment.
You pick up an HEV suit in one of the rooms, which is an all-purpose protective suit. Then you descend to the test chamber. Scientists there speak for a bit about a "pure specimen", "possibility of a resonance cascade" and mention that the facility's Administrator himself ordered the test, despite some concerns.
You go into the test chamber, push some buttons, then push the specimen (a yellowish crystal) into the beam of an analysis engine, and then the trouble starts. Things start breaking, you hear screams, get momentarily teleported to a weird place where you see weird creatures, teleported back to the chamber, again to another weird place, and finally back into the chamber.
That's the first 15 minutes of the game, consider stuff below to be spoilers if you will.
You run out of the chamber, alien creatures warping in all around, meet one of the scientists (Eli Vance) who tells you to call for some help. Your goal is to reach the surface. From there on, you get to shoot a lot of stuff. The next key story point is the arrival of the marines. Marine soldiers have been sent in, much to the joy of scientists who believe that they're going to be rescued and the aliens killed. However, the marines are also executing scientists on sight, apparently trying to cover the incident up.
So, you start fighting off the Marines in addition to the aliens. At one point you're captured by two marines who drop you into a trash compactor, but you make your way out. Later you get into a research lab where you see the alien beings studied - which means that the humans have actually known about them for some time. At this time, your objective is to reach the Lambda Core, which is where the surviving scientists are hiding.
On the surface, you notice a full-scale war between the aliens and the US army. There are alien flyers pursued by F-15 jets, tanks and marines engaging alien soldiers, etc. You make your way through all that, finally reach the Lambda Core, where teleportation experiments had been conducted. As a result of them, a "borderworld" called Xen was found, where the alien creatures reside. It transpires that Black Mesa had been sending research teams to Xen, also for the goal of capturing aliens and bringing them back to Earth for study.
Now, the problem is that a creature in Xen is holding open the portals to Earth, which lets the aliens teleport in. So you have to go to Xen, which you do, and eventually you reach this creature - called the Nihilanth, which looks like a giant floating baby without legs. You kill the Nihilanth, and are then confronted with the G-Man, who says that he's really impressed and offers you a job, which you - as HL2 assumes - take.
Of course, throughout the game you do get to see the G-Man in a lot of places and doing strange things.
Phew! That should just about cover the story bits, but there's plenty more, of course - above I focus on the story itself, not what's going on gameplay wise in the chapters.
.Firstly, you really should buy HL1. Of course, it's a graphically poor game by today's standards, but the gameplay still is top notch, and some of the AI is also still great. It's not quite like HL2, but there are many similarities.
OK now, the story.
You're Gordon Freeman, 27, with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the MIT. The game starts as you're on a tram in the Black Mesa Research Facility, New Mexico, USA. Your position is a research associate at the Anomalous Materials labs. After the tram ride (which is very famous), you arrive at the Anomalous Materials lobby.
Mind you, you have no weapon or enemies at this point, something HL became famous for. The guard in the lobby tells you that you were supposed to be in the test chamber half an hour ago. There are other scientists in the rooms that will tell you to go to the test chamber and that they'd be happy to speak after the experiment.
You pick up an HEV suit in one of the rooms, which is an all-purpose protective suit. Then you descend to the test chamber. Scientists there speak for a bit about a "pure specimen", "possibility of a resonance cascade" and mention that the facility's Administrator himself ordered the test, despite some concerns.
You go into the test chamber, push some buttons, then push the specimen (a yellowish crystal) into the beam of an analysis engine, and then the trouble starts. Things start breaking, you hear screams, get momentarily teleported to a weird place where you see weird creatures, teleported back to the chamber, again to another weird place, and finally back into the chamber.
That's the first 15 minutes of the game, consider stuff below to be spoilers if you will.
You run out of the chamber, alien creatures warping in all around, meet one of the scientists (Eli Vance) who tells you to call for some help. Your goal is to reach the surface. From there on, you get to shoot a lot of stuff
. The next key story point is the arrival of the marines. Marine soldiers have been sent in, much to the joy of scientists who believe that they're going to be rescued and the aliens killed. However, the marines are also executing scientists on sight, apparently trying to cover the incident up.So, you start fighting off the Marines in addition to the aliens. At one point you're captured by two marines who drop you into a trash compactor, but you make your way out. Later you get into a research lab where you see the alien beings studied - which means that the humans have actually known about them for some time. At this time, your objective is to reach the Lambda Core, which is where the surviving scientists are hiding.
On the surface, you notice a full-scale war between the aliens and the US army. There are alien flyers pursued by F-15 jets, tanks and marines engaging alien soldiers, etc. You make your way through all that, finally reach the Lambda Core, where teleportation experiments had been conducted. As a result of them, a "borderworld" called Xen was found, where the alien creatures reside. It transpires that Black Mesa had been sending research teams to Xen, also for the goal of capturing aliens and bringing them back to Earth for study.
Now, the problem is that a creature in Xen is holding open the portals to Earth, which lets the aliens teleport in. So you have to go to Xen, which you do, and eventually you reach this creature - called the Nihilanth, which looks like a giant floating baby without legs. You kill the Nihilanth, and are then confronted with the G-Man, who says that he's really impressed and offers you a job, which you - as HL2 assumes - take.
Of course, throughout the game you do get to see the G-Man in a lot of places and doing strange things.
Phew! That should just about cover the story bits, but there's plenty more, of course - above I focus on the story itself, not what's going on gameplay wise in the chapters.
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BTNHadrien
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i played it on xbox
whats steam?
and im from new mexico
whats steam?
and im from new mexico
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lol yupDevvo said:
best too
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BTNHadrien
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believe it or not im from las vegas new mexico
if you dont believe theres one google it
if you dont believe theres one google it
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but everyone says theres only one in nevadaSolver said:I'm quite aware that Las Vegas is located in NM
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I'd actually grab a sealed half-life generations set off ebay or something for about £15. It's got half-life 1, opposing force and blue shift (the 2 expansions) and counter strike in it.
The basic story of half-life is:
You're Gordon Freeman working in the Black Mesa Research Facility in Anomalous Materials when you inadvertantly trigger a resonance cascade, and aggressive aliens start teleporting in (headcrabs - only the normal kind - which then make zombies, vortigants and barnacles from HL2 as well as a lot of other nice aliens), then the military - HECU marines and black ops, come in to clear it all up, including you and fellow staff. You eventually get to Xen, the alien world, and destroy the Nihilanth, a being holding the portals open to teleport the aliens in. G-Man then offers you a job or certain death
In Opposing Force:
You're Adrian Shephard, a HECU marine. You get shot down over Black Mesa and wake up in a make-shift infirmary, when Gordon is about 2/3 through half-life. You work with both the HECU and the BM staff against the Xen aliens, the black ops (who're wiping out marines too) and new aliens known as Race X. Eventually you kill the Gene-worm and the G-Man leaves you trapped "somewhere you can do no harm and no harm can come to you"
In Blue Shift:
You're Barney Calhoun, a BM security guard, starting about the same time as half-life does. You fight the same stuff as Gordon (mostly) and are working simply to escape Black Mesa which, when you do with some scientists, the game ends
The basic story of half-life is:
You're Gordon Freeman working in the Black Mesa Research Facility in Anomalous Materials when you inadvertantly trigger a resonance cascade, and aggressive aliens start teleporting in (headcrabs - only the normal kind - which then make zombies, vortigants and barnacles from HL2 as well as a lot of other nice aliens), then the military - HECU marines and black ops, come in to clear it all up, including you and fellow staff. You eventually get to Xen, the alien world, and destroy the Nihilanth, a being holding the portals open to teleport the aliens in. G-Man then offers you a job or certain death
In Opposing Force:
You're Adrian Shephard, a HECU marine. You get shot down over Black Mesa and wake up in a make-shift infirmary, when Gordon is about 2/3 through half-life. You work with both the HECU and the BM staff against the Xen aliens, the black ops (who're wiping out marines too) and new aliens known as Race X. Eventually you kill the Gene-worm and the G-Man leaves you trapped "somewhere you can do no harm and no harm can come to you"
In Blue Shift:
You're Barney Calhoun, a BM security guard, starting about the same time as half-life does. You fight the same stuff as Gordon (mostly) and are working simply to escape Black Mesa which, when you do with some scientists, the game ends
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Sam-2k said:I'd actually grab a sealed half-life generations set off ebay or something for about £15. It's got half-life 1, opposing force and blue shift (the 2 expansions) and counter strike in it.
The basic story of half-life is:
You're Gordon Freeman working in the Black Mesa Research Facility in Anomalous Materials when you inadvertantly trigger a resonance cascade, and aggressive aliens start teleporting in (headcrabs - only the normal kind - which then make zombies, vortigants and barnacles from HL2 as well as a lot of other nice aliens), then the military - HECU marines and black ops, come in to clear it all up, including you and fellow staff. You eventually get to Xen, the alien world, and destroy the Nihilanth, a being holding the portals open to teleport the aliens in. G-Man then offers you a job or certain death
In Opposing Force:
You're Adrian Shephard, a HECU marine. You get shot down over Black Mesa and wake up in a make-shift infirmary, when Gordon is about 2/3 through half-life. You work with both the HECU and the BM staff against the Xen aliens, the black ops (who're wiping out marines too) and new aliens known as Race X. Eventually you kill the Gene-worm and the G-Man leaves you trapped "somewhere you can do no harm and no harm can come to you"
In Blue Shift:
You're Barney Calhoun, a BM security guard, starting about the same time as half-life does. You fight the same stuff as Gordon (mostly) and are working simply to escape Black Mesa which, when you do with some scientists, the game ends
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I just beat half life and im about to play opposing force
