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Not Recommended
0.7 hrs last two weeks / 17.8 hrs on record (8.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 9 Jan, 2020 @ 5:55pm
Updated: 10 Jan, 2020 @ 6:04am

Early Access Review
A painful experience. Terrible experience
My backstory with the game:
I tried to play half-life several times, but never got far. I remember the further i went into the story before black mesa was like the first time you meet the big fella that you electrocute and that's it.
When i got black mesa i finally gave the game another chance and got even further to chapter 13 approximately. Until i really got pissed and abandoned the game.
What i feel
Right now im stressed, this game is so bad i had a worse time playing it than other competitive games i've tried (and this is not even a comp game is a SP game!). Its overall a terrible experience for a few reasons i proceed to ennumerate:
Pros:
-The Graphics are awesome compared to the original half-life.
-the sounds are great.
-The music is great.
-Scenarios are great.
-Allied AI its surprisingly effective unlike HL.
And that's every good thing the game has.
Cons:
-Extremely long, played 8 hours and got like 6 chapters to go (wouldnt be so bad if)
-Enemy AI has the aim of a csgo pro player
-Some areas are extremely difficult if you get tagged to low hp and hit a save point.
-Tedious gameplay, terrible plataformer
-Worst story ive seen so far in a game, a scientist that's involved in an experiment that fails and kills zombies, monsters and militars, that's it, nothing more deep than that, some CoD's have better story writing.
-Every second is painful, every single one, every death is unfair and every section is hell
-(Informative) I had to use noclip and godmode several times to avoid wrecking my pc, i used noclip when falling from a high plataform on chapter 10, not a big deal, but then had to use godmode in "surface tensions" bc i got stuck in a savepoint with 6 hp against 5 soldiers (clearly impossible, even if i killed the first and healed, 4 come after me) and the chopper on surface tensions as well. Also the game for some reason wouldnt start an event that would make a door open so i had to use noclip as well.
Finally, my game crashed, and i gave up trying to play this boring ♥♥♥♥

I just think this is an extremely overrated game, that for some reason was thought to be one of the best of all time, when its just one more generic shooter, maybe decent in 1998 but not more than that, 6 years later legends like GTA: San Andreas adn Cod4: Modern Warfare were released, being clearly better in every story aspect than this.
Sorry H-L lovers, someone had to say it, this game is extremely
Overrated

Score: 4/10

Pd: This also applies to Half-Life (being overrated and unfun)
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4 Comments
rpk 30 Mar, 2020 @ 5:54am 
it is true half life revoutionized fps games, but today, its no better than modern games, this is just my oppinion and if you're salty i get it, and i've beaten more difficult games than this like dark souls 1 and 2, and partially the 3rd one, had hard times in geometry dash, getting to do more tthan 10000 attempts in some levels, and iu compare iot to gd because even tho gd is frustrating, it was a good experiuence for me, because it paid off, in the end, i liked half life, the ending was good for me, but all the pain and boringness i had to go through wasn't worth it tbh
Kuiper 24 Mar, 2020 @ 5:02pm 
You also really misunderstood the story. If you would have paid attention to the entire story (aka played every single HL game while paying attention to the story), you would have known that it wasn't just a mistake a scientist made. As a result of an experiment, a resonance cascade formed, and that allowed the creatures you saw to get to Earth. The Resonance Cascade also directly influenced the events of Half-Life 2, since it also allowed the Combine to take over. It was an apocalyptic scenario. The military is sent to the Black Mesa facility to kill everyone and contain the situation, acting as a cover-up of the Resonance Cascade. However, after realizing that they cannot win against the Xen aliens, they decide to abandon the facility, calling in final airstrikes. Gordon Freeman is tasked with going into the Zen world and destroying the portal that allowed them to get to Earth in the first place.
Kuiper 24 Mar, 2020 @ 5:02pm 
Oh yeah, and about what you said about it being "generic." You do realize that, until it's release, storylines in FPS games were typically completely irrelevant to the game itself, right? Half-Life revolutionized storytelling in games.
Kuiper 24 Mar, 2020 @ 5:02pm 
This is actually really stupid. You played the game poorly and had a tough time with it, so you blame the game instead of yourself. This game isn't meant to be easy. Don't play it like it is.