As Gordon fought his way out of the facility, he not only had to deal with the various Xen creatures such as “Slaves” and the “lovable” head crabs but also with military forces ordered to “silence” the incident by any means necessary, and a mysterious figure in a blue suit known as the G-man who seemed to be constantly observing Gordon from a distance throughout the ordeal. Gordon happened to have the luck to be right at ground zero when the purest crystal yet was analyzed causing a dimensional tear that allowed the creatures from Xen to teleport into the Black Mesa facility.

The biggest project at Black Mesa was the study of strange crystals brought back from the Xen dimensional border world. Gordon Freeman worked as a new employee in the secret governmental Black Mesa research facility. Only read if you have beaten Half-Life, or simply don’t care.) In the original Half-Life, scientist Dr. (Warning: This paragraph details some major plot aspects of the original Half-Life. While Half-Life 2 doesn’t take the genre into brand new territory, it is by far one of the most cohesive, addictive, and high-quality video game titles to be released in years. With the way Half-Life redefined the FPS genre in 1998, all eyes are on its sequel to do the same thing. With the way the plot of Half-Life ended, a sequel has always been expected, though with the combination of the sheer power that was the original title and the drama that made Half-Life 2’s development cycle (See “Code Theft,”“VU – Valve Lawsuit,”“”), the expectation and hype surrounding Half-Life 2 was an incredible force.

To this date, Half-Life has had hundreds of mods developed for it by the community such as Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Natural Selection, and Action Half-Life, totaling an average of thousands of servers and tens of thousands of players at any given moment. The odds that a game redefines its genre are low, the odds that a studio's first game release does the same even lower, and thusly no one could have possibly predicted at the time how much of an impact that Half-Life would have in the first-person shooter genre. Over six years ago, the then-unknown developer Valve Software released their first title as a game development studio Half-Life.

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