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| From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $89.95
New (1) Used (9) from $15.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 5445
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Platinum Collection - Second
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 2.4
MPN: 71805
UPC: 020626718059
EAN: 0020626718059
ASIN: B00006FXIN
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 why so popular? January 1, 2005
4 out of 29 found this review helpful
I really didn't like this game, shoddy ai, blocky gfx, just a bad game all together.
 Gordon Freeman : Be a Foot-Soldier for Valve !!! December 24, 2004
21 out of 25 found this review helpful
I am a half-life lover - spent $1000 upgrading a PC in 1998 just to buy this game and it was well worth the money. This game is to PC games kinda like what STAR WARS was to space movies. It opened up a new parallel universe !!
You start the game feeling like an imposter in the skin of "Gordon Freeman" arriving for a day of work at Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico. Luckily, the helpful scientists ask you questions until you stumble into the lab and start doing what you need to do until the big bad accident ... and then aliens teleport in from another dimension, eating all the scientists and the military sends in Marine Commandos to kill EVERYTHING INCLUDING THE SCIENTISTS (YOU) to cover up the disaster completely !! The game really starts with you unconscious in the deepest bowels of this huge complex and you have to fight your way out - 1/3 solving puzzles, 1/3 killing aliens, and 1/3 facing hell-bent marines in your protective suit (as long as your battery pack is still alive) to help you overcome these problems. For the first time characters talk to you, animals move realistically, and the animal AI is incredible. Your first weapon of choice ?? A simple crowbar. Later weapons ?? Experimental prototypes from secret US Military programs !!!
Now I'm back 6 years later and look what's happened. It seems like Valve has the mother of all copyright protection problems. Not only were players pirating the CD's, even the distributor (Sierra) was pirating and selling Illicit copies of the CD's. Sierra was even selling duplicate retail boxes with duplicate keys to customers !! [...] and Valve hates Sierra and is in a legal fight but is contractually forced to deal with Sierra. You will have to be a foot soldier for Valve until the legal fight is won. To be a foot soldier, you must put up with Valve's copyright protection scheme which is called "Steam".
Before you get this game, [...] You will need a good broadband connection to install this game, because you will need to download several hundred megabytes of data. It will be tricky to run the game in the future without a broadband connection. It will be possible but you will have to plan ahead before disconnecting from the Internet.
If you can live with this hassle, you will be highly rewarded.
Very Good, 5 Games for the price of 1!!! December 12, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I don't know what the person is talking about who said Counterstrike is free...
counter-strike was free...like 2-3 years ago...but it was bought out by seirra...
I bought this, and i would most definitly recomend this.These games are all fun, addiciting, and just down right good.I love this pack, and i reccomend this to everyone who likes a good first person shooter.I also recommend buying this before buying Half-Life 2 (if you never played half life or Counter Strike before)
very good great christmas present
Its a scam August 12, 2004
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
Don't get me wrong, I loved Half-Life and the expansion packs (not the best FPS ever, Deus Ex beats it, but thats another argument). The thing about this pack is that its not worth it. Opposing Forces comes with Blue Shift, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress Classic were released as free mods if you purchase Half-Life. Anyways, the point is you get all these games just by buying Half-Life and Blue Shift, which is about $5 cheaper than the pack. Not much, I know, but don't think you're getting a great deal and then learn this after you buy it. And if you buy the normal games you get a better, more indepth manual (the one for Half-Life has a bit of back story, like a letter from Freeman's professor, never seen the real Blue Shift Manual, so I cannot comment on that). So definitely buy Half-Life and Blue Shift, not this pack.
Great Game August 5, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best game of all. I haven't played a game for so long like I play Half-Life, Counter-Strike and etc. And about the Steam feature, its the best too. I know it is a bit big, but its espeacilly for playing on internet. And if you want to play on internet, you HAVE to have a broadband connection, so the updates don't takes so much time. And about downloading the 723mb pack, no need too, because Steam converts yours game instalation of Half-Life and all mods to work with Steam. And about this pack, yes, its better to buy the Half-Life only CD, but then you will need to download Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Opposing Force, and no Blueshift will be there. So, you choose what you want
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