Half life
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i wouldn't use any cheats at all if you haven't played half life before, would ruin it..
depends on the difficulity really
if its on easy dont bother with cheats if ya good at half life and wana see the story but if ya wana put it on hard then dying might get annoying if ya trying to see all the story lines and dont want to get stuck on certain bits cos u have low health or no ammo hehehe thats my justification of cheating anyway but i still try not too as must as poss... been playing the origional quake on nightmare... name says it all in later levels
There is no real story to the first Half-life. Definitely nothing that particularly happens while you play. If all you want to know is the plot, I'd recommend just reading about it rather than actually playing through, as it's a pretty damn long game. It was made back in a time when people made FPS games that actually had some length to them.
You're Gordon Freeman, you work in the mysterious, suspiciously well-off Black Mesa research centre in New Mexico. During one day of performing routine - yet strangely, never properly explained - experiments involving giant rotating lasers, stupidly positioned switches and pushing weird mini-tractors in an obviously unsafe environment, you're given an unusual "sample" to use in them. When you push the weird little rock into the big glowing beam, all hell breaks loose and aliens begin invading. Hearing about this terrible breach of inter-dimensional ettiquette, the government wisely decides that letting weird creatures that fire lightning bolts and parasitic headcrabs roam free just isn't the done thing, and dispatches some friendly army types to point bullets at anything that moves - including you. But then, deciding that this just isn't enough, they send some more army types (these ones are in black, that's how you know they're OOOOH EVIL) to kill everyone again, and the first army types to boot. And then, because nothing says bureaucracy like doing things in triplicate, they decide to be done with the whole mess, and just nuke the entire place. Before they manage that though, you (with a little help from three scientists and one security guard - who apparently cover every shift in the entire centre) wander through the obscenely large Mesa complex, go on a bit of a train ride, launch a rocket-borne satellite, blow up a handful of helicopters/tanks, order a couple of airstrikes, kill all manner of weird-looking beasties, and generally ponce about in your swanky hazard suit. Then you mince off to an alien planet for a bit, leap from floating rock to floating rock, fight a giant alien testicle, and eventually find yourself shooting a giant flying baby in the head with a large amount of rockets, only for your closure to involve getting chatted up by a suited "man" who is more cryptic and has more unanswered questions over his head than an entire series of Lost. Fade to black.
You're Gordon Freeman, you work in the mysterious, suspiciously well-off Black Mesa research centre in New Mexico. During one day of performing routine - yet strangely, never properly explained - experiments involving giant rotating lasers, stupidly positioned switches and pushing weird mini-tractors in an obviously unsafe environment, you're given an unusual "sample" to use in them. When you push the weird little rock into the big glowing beam, all hell breaks loose and aliens begin invading. Hearing about this terrible breach of inter-dimensional ettiquette, the government wisely decides that letting weird creatures that fire lightning bolts and parasitic headcrabs roam free just isn't the done thing, and dispatches some friendly army types to point bullets at anything that moves - including you. But then, deciding that this just isn't enough, they send some more army types (these ones are in black, that's how you know they're OOOOH EVIL) to kill everyone again, and the first army types to boot. And then, because nothing says bureaucracy like doing things in triplicate, they decide to be done with the whole mess, and just nuke the entire place. Before they manage that though, you (with a little help from three scientists and one security guard - who apparently cover every shift in the entire centre) wander through the obscenely large Mesa complex, go on a bit of a train ride, launch a rocket-borne satellite, blow up a handful of helicopters/tanks, order a couple of airstrikes, kill all manner of weird-looking beasties, and generally ponce about in your swanky hazard suit. Then you mince off to an alien planet for a bit, leap from floating rock to floating rock, fight a giant alien testicle, and eventually find yourself shooting a giant flying baby in the head with a large amount of rockets, only for your closure to involve getting chatted up by a suited "man" who is more cryptic and has more unanswered questions over his head than an entire series of Lost. Fade to black.
EDIT: For some reason I thought this said "better" last night. Your facty status is revoked, good sir!
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If you haven't played HL before. Don't cheat, it will ruin it.
I am doing the same as you, Just played through Half-Life, Opposing Force and Blue Shift for the first time since each was released. I didn't use cheats, but did use a guide on occasion if I was stuck and couldn't remember what to do, just so I wasn't wasting time messing around. Playing on normal and using a guide I was able to get through the game pretty quickly but without totally ruining it.
Half-life apart from looking a little dated is every bit as good now as it was then. Still better than most FPS's released to date IMO. Make sure you play Opposing Force too, one of the best expansions ever created. Blue shift isn't quite so good, very short but interesting none the less.
Taking a little break before I get stuck into HL2 again. The onto the Episodes that I haven't played yet.
All in all best game series ever if you ask me.
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Don't listen to Weebull
Half-Life is well worth playing. An essential PC title.
I am doing the same as you, Just played through Half-Life, Opposing Force and Blue Shift for the first time since each was released. I didn't use cheats, but did use a guide on occasion if I was stuck and couldn't remember what to do, just so I wasn't wasting time messing around. Playing on normal and using a guide I was able to get through the game pretty quickly but without totally ruining it.
Half-life apart from looking a little dated is every bit as good now as it was then. Still better than most FPS's released to date IMO. Make sure you play Opposing Force too, one of the best expansions ever created. Blue shift isn't quite so good, very short but interesting none the less.
Taking a little break before I get stuck into HL2 again. The onto the Episodes that I haven't played yet.
All in all best game series ever if you ask me.
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Don't listen to Weebull
Half-Life is well worth playing. An essential PC title.
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My initial view of half life is that it is v good, quite compelling so far (despite the graphics which aren't too bad at all but the sound seems rough to me)
I don't know what difficulty I am playing on but I'll try and turn it down to easy if I have not already.
Also, it runs very fast across the screen (a bit fiddly) - it needs slowing down a touch.
Thanks for the info guys particularly the story info
I don't know what difficulty I am playing on but I'll try and turn it down to easy if I have not already.
Also, it runs very fast across the screen (a bit fiddly) - it needs slowing down a touch.
Thanks for the info guys particularly the story info
After writing all that, I forgot what was going to be my original point!Don't listen to Weebull
I never meant to imply that you shouldn't play Half-Life. You should. It's one of the best PC games ever made, even now.
I just meant that if you're going to fly through it with cheats on, it's a complete waste of a game that is 90% awesome gameplay and 5% story (and 5% Xen). It's a long game, and the fun of it is actually playing, not trying to grasp what little story there is. There's more story that occurs between HL and HL2 than there is in the first game itself.
Play Half-Life, just don't play it for the story.
maybe this weekend. 
