Players experience the entire story through the eyes of the character. There are no cinematic cut-scenes where players lose control of the character, rather the storyline is told through scripted sequences and real-time interactions with survivors of the alien invasion. Unlike contemporary FPS titles, Half-Life maintains the first-person viewpoint throughout the game. Half-Life revolutionized storytelling in video games. In Half-Life players assume the role of the theoretical physicist Gordon Freeman and must escape an underground research facility that has been infiltrated by aliens due to a failed research experiment. At its release Half-Life received critical acclaim for its immersive storytelling, seamless level transitions, advanced enemy Artificial Intelligence (AI), memorable opponents and intense gameplay. Sierra Entertainment released the first game in the Half-Life series in 1998. This was the days before Steam had the ability to buy collections at a discount if you already owned some of the titles within it.Half-Life introduced groundbreaking innovations to the computer gaming world and influenced the development of the first-person shooter (FPS) genre. To make matters worse, the black box actually existed, some GPU's had bundled it before Valve decided to can the idea so those owners still got their games. Your $40 was getting you 2 smallish games with only a couple of hours of content and a MP-only game - still decent for sure but if you weren't interested in say TF2 or portal, it seemed like a cash grab. Now being clear, the Orange Box was definitely great value but if you already owned HL2 and Episode 1, the value proposition diminished quite a bit and it felt more like you were being forced to re-buy stuff you already owned. Then a few weeks before release, they pulled the Black Box and made people buy the Orange Box instead. The orange Box contained HL2, Episode 1 and Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2.Įpisode 2, Portal and TF2 were new releases so the Black Box was supposed to contain just those which made sense if you were already a Valve fan, you probably already owned HL2 and Episode 1. Yup, I remember this well! There was supposed to be 2 boxes, the Orange Box and the Black box.
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