Half-Life (1998) [Part 1]

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Half-Life (1998)

Duration: 27:26

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Game title:
Half-Life

Release date:
19 November 1998

Platform:
Microsoft Windows

Game story:
Theoretical physicist Gordon Freeman arrives late for work at the Black Mesa Research Facility. As part of a scientific experiment, he pushes an unusual crystal of alien origin into a machine known as the anti-mass spectrometer. The spectrometer explodes, creating a "resonance cascade" which severely damages the facility and opens a portal to an alien dimension, Xen. The surviving scientists urge Gordon to travel to the surface, where he defends himself against hostile Xen creatures and the Hazardous Environmental Combat Unit (HECU), a special forces unit of the United States Marine Corps dispatched to eliminate the Xen creatures as well as all surviving Black Mesa personnel to cover up the incident.
Gordon learns that scientists from the Lambda Complex may have found a way to close the portal. Gordon travels to the other end of the facility to assist them. Along the way, he activates a rocket engine test facility to destroy a giant tentacled creature and uses a disused railway system to reach and launch a satellite rocket, with the purpose of attempting to close the portal via satellite, which ultimately fails. Freeman is captured by HECU marines and left to be killed in a garbage compactor, but escapes and makes his way to an older part of the facility. There, he discovers Xen specimens collected before the incident.
Overwhelmed by the alien forces, the HECU pulls out of Black Mesa and begin airstrikes. Scaling cliffs, navigating destroyed buildings, and traversing through underground water channels, Gordon arrives at the Lambda Complex, where scientists learn the portal is being forced open on the other side by a large entity. They have developed teleportation technology that allows Gordon to travel to Xen, where he is tasked with stopping the entity.
In Xen, Gordon encounters the remains of researchers who ventured there before him, and Gordon defeats the Gonarch, a large egg-laying headcrab. At an alien factory manufacturing alien soldiers, he enters a portal that sends him to a vast cave. There, Gordon confronts the Nihilanth, the entity maintaining the rift, and destroys it. Gordon is summoned by the mysterious G-Man, who has been watching his progress in Black Mesa. The G-Man commends him and explains that his "employers" wish to employ Gordon. If Gordon refuses, he is teleported to an area full of alien soldiers to be killed immediately. If Gordon accepts, the G-Man congratulates him and places him into stasis to await his next assignment.

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