Half-Life—the debut title by Valve
Software—took the PC gaming world by storm upon its release on
November 19, 1998. Winning over 50 Game of the Year awards and selling
more than eight million copies, Half-Life still reigns as the
best-selling FPS of all time. An alternate version of the game called
"Half-Life: Decay" was released for Playstation 2 on November 15, 2001
as well, offering different player characters and an all-new storyline.
Built off of a heavily modified version of the Quake engine,
Half-Life boasts much-improved graphics, artful ingame scripted
sequences and one of the most immersive storylines of any game to date!
Gameplay includes a mix of intense action-oriented combat and various
puzzles, all combined in a continuous and immense world.
Players find themselves in the shoes of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a
theoretical physicist who inadvertently triggers the horrific incident
known as the "resonance cascade" while performing an experiment, causing
massive destruction, death and an alien infestation of the entire Black
Mesa Research Facility. With a trusty crowbar (and a slew of other
weaponry he finds on the way) and all the help he can get, Gordon finds
himself pitted against both the aliens from the planet Xen and a
dangerous military force known as the Hazardous Environment Combat
Unit—who were dispatched to clean up the situation&mdashscientists
included! Can he get out alive?
What's in This Section?
PHL is proud to be one of the few remaining Half-Life coverage sites
on the web. Although the game is aging, our love for it has not waned
one bit! Therefore, you can expect to find as much information for the
original game on our site as you would for any of the newer games in the
series, including overviews, walkthroughs and enemy/weapon information
for all of the expansions and multiplayer games. If you are keen on
downloading some awesome Half-Life mods or maps, don't forget to check
out our huge Half-Life files section as well! Planet
Half-Life—providing you with Half-Life coverage until the end of
time!
Essential Links
Half-Life Review @ IGN
Half-Life Forum @ Planet
Half-Life
Half-Life Files @ FilePlanet
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Friday, 30 April, 2010 – Planet Half-Life News |
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Firearms is 10 Years Old! FA:S Media Release
9:07 PST | eulogy | Print News | Category: Half-Life - Half-Life 2Congratulations
go to Firearms, as it's been an entire decade (and one day) since the
release of the original Firearms for Half-Life. For a history of
updates, complete with screenshots, check out their history page here. On top of that, screenshots of each map included in the first release of Firearms: Source are being shown off.
  
As you'll notice at the very top of the history page, Firearms:
Source is to be released in July! Best of luck on behalf of Planet
Half-Life and mod enthusiasts everywhere on future development, and we
hope to be playing your mod soon! For the rest of the screenshots of
the maps in Firearms: Source, check out their news post here.
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