Half-Life (1998)

Half-Life (1998) is a sci-fi shooter. One of the first games where the story was completely presented using cutscenes in the engine. One of the main features of Half-Life was the amazing artificial intelligence of enemies. The story of Half-Life begins at the Black Mesa research facility in the mountains of New Mexico. Control takes place for the young physicist Gordon Freeman, who studies anomalous materials. The game consists of 19 chapters. The hero will receive a protective H.E.V. a suit that allows him to navigate the most dangerous and irradiated areas of the complex. In one of the scientific experiments, an accident occurred, as a result of which a crystal under the beam of an anti-mass spectrometer caused such an unusual phenomenon as cascade resonance. Fighting with an unknown creature, Freeman will have to fight back against such unusual monsters as headcrabs, gargantuas, bullsquids, ichthyosaurs, snarks and many others. The movement itself through the missions is carried out along linear corridors, conditionally separated by maps. All chapters are numbered and contain titles such as "The Arrival of Black Mesa", "Anomalous Materials", "Lambda Core", etc. Half-Life features interactivity, allowing you to move and break boxes and solve various environmental puzzles. A crowbar is used as the main weapon, but the arsenal also includes a machine gun and a tank. There is a trolley as a means of transport. Some levels, such as "Zen," contain jumping puzzles that require you to jump across low-gravity platforms.