From that moment on, Half-Life OF begins. Ok, that shouldn’t be difficult and I’m on my way right away and looking for a radio so I can call up and track down my teammates. There seems to be a radio somewhere in this building. But the man in the white duster doesn’t seem to listen to me and just goes on with his story. “Ah, Corporal Shephard, I see you’ve recovered quite nicely!” “Yes, otherwise playing Opposing Force (OF) would get boring very quickly, I think,” I called back. I seem to be the only Marine here who can stand on his feet again. A number of men, dressed in white dustcoats, try to bring a dead person to life here and there. Left and right are a number of wounded and dead.
I’m in an amateurishly set up emergency room. After a few heartbeats, the haze before my eyes finally starts to disappear. No, really not, it wasn’t some erotic movie, it was probably just the suspense. A flash, screeching mortars, huge explosions… silence! That heartbeat again and something that resembles my panting. Not for the Apollo 13, it did make it, but for the helicopter… At that moment a haze appears before my eyes and I try to listen to my own heartbeat. “Housten, we’ve got a problem!” I tried to say. “Mayday, mayday! We’re going down.”, I can still hear the pilot through his radio shout. During the flight, I and my comrades receive the final instructions before launching the attack. My eyes open and I find myself flying in a helicopter over the land of the Black Mesa Research Facility. They are trying to cover up the whole thing. Along the way you will not only get some aliens on your roof, but you will also be hindered by the navy. Your job is to make your way back from the research center and get help from the Earth’s surface Black Mesa is located underground. No, these aliens seem to enjoy themselves here on Earth and give the walls a very suspicious red color. Unfortunately no sweet ET who shows up in front of you and only has to call home, so that it can be picked up again after a few hours. Aliens of different shapes and sizes appear throughout the building complex. What was supposed to lead to amazing scientific results ended in disastrous disaster. Strange things happen during a scientific experiment. In Half-Life you play the role of Morgan Freeman, a researcher who works at the research center Black Mesa. For those who have never heard of Half-Life, I’ll briefly describe what that game is all about. So the player sank deeper and deeper into the story, so that the whole thing continued to play out before his eyes, after he had decided to squint his bloodshot eyes in his bed at 4 a.m. This is because the guys at Valve decided to give the game an adventure-like twist.
In the game it wasn’t so much about running around aimlessly shooting in a number of bloody corridors, but the whole thing radiated a certain atmosphere. Half-Life was unlike any other 3D shooter. Half-Life, voted best 3D game of the year 1999.