The game revolves around the security guard, Barney Calhoun, who must survive the resonance cascade and reach the surface to escape the research facility.Īccording to a ZDNet article, there was a planned SKU of the game that would be used for online multiplayer called Half-Life: Online. Unlike the previous expansion, this one lacks a matchmaking game. It will go on to be the last Half-Life game officially released on PC until Half-Life 2's release in 2004. The expansion was ported to PC quickly after the Dreamcast port was cancelled. The port also included maps that were not included in the PC version of the games, including a map called dm_office.bsp (not to be confused with cs_office.bsp). They released a trailer for the game and even Prima Guides were printed, published, and released in stores, however the game did not survive development as the console's sales was dwindling heavily due to the release of the Playstation 2.ĭuring the development of the console port, Half-Life and its expansion were using remastered graphics that ended up going unused, but inspired an update for the PC port to use new remastered graphics. In late 2000, Sierra and Gearbox Studios decided to create the first ever game port of Half-Life to console, to which they chose the Dreamcast console. The expansion was re-released following the release of Counter-Strike to include just the multiplayer game mode due to how popular the game mode was. The expansion also included a special game type not available in the original game, CTF (capture the flag).

Gordon Freeman can be seen in the game when jumping into the portal that leads him to Xen.

In the game, the player controls the HECU marine Adrian Shepherd through the Black Mesa Research Facility. One year after Half-Life's release, Gearbox Studios published the first expansion for the game on PC called Half-Life: Opposing Force. In the demo, the player had to establish outside communications by surviving the military and tuning the antenna to the USNRC.ĭuring Half-Life's life cycle, there were three expansions released officially, with one expansion going unreleased. One year after release, Valve released a second demo called Half-Life: Uplink which featured one playable chapter that was cut from the retail game: Uplink. It is also the only demo of the game released before the retail game. In the demo, the player played through the entire game until they complete the first day canonically. Before its release, Valve had released a special downloadable demo for Half-Life called Half-Life: Day One.

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