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Considered one of the greatest video games of all time, Half-Life 2 was praised for its advances in computer animation, sound, narration, computer graphics, artificial intelligence and physics, and won more than 35 Game of the Year awards. Half-Life 2 was the first game to use Valve's Steam content delivery system, a system that eventually led ...
Valve's first game was Half-Life, a first-person shooter released in 1998. [2] It sold over nine million retail copies. [3] [4] Alongside Half-Life ' s launch, Valve released development tools to enable the player community to create content and mods. [5] The company then proceeded to hire the creators of popular mods such as Counter-Strike. [1]
The Orange Box is a video game compilation containing five games developed and published by Valve.Two of the games included, Half-Life 2 and its first stand-alone expansion, Episode One; had previously been released in 2004 and 2006 as separate products.
Half-Life is a first-person shooter that requires the player to perform combat tasks and puzzle solving to advance through the game. Unlike most first-person shooters at the time, which relied on cut-scene intermissions to detail their plotlines, Half-Life ' s story is told mostly using scripted sequences (bar one short cutscene), keeping the player in control of the first-person viewpoint.
Video games portal Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ... Pages in category "Half-Life (series)" The following 9 pages ...
While it started a stagnation of the Half-Life franchise that continues to this day, it also kicked off two of the most beloved franchises of the last ten years: Portal and Team Fortress 2, the ...
Yakuza – retroactively called Yakuza 1 by fans – was the first game in the series to be released, and prior to the release of Yakuza 0, was the earliest point in the story’s timeline.
In 2009, Game Informer put Half-Life 2 5th on their list of "The Top 200 Games of All Time", saying that "with Half-Life 2, Valve redefined the way first-person shooters were created". [ 71 ] Half-Life 2 was selected by readers of The Guardian as the best game of the decade, with particular praise for the environment design.