Half-Life is a surprise to the world of gaming with the combination of intense action as well as continuous, immersive narrative. The debut game from Valve has won more than 50 games-of-the-year prizes, before being called “Best Mobile Game Ever” by Mobile Gamer, and launched the franchise which has over 8 million units of retail sold all over the world. NOW. t124i
In taking the suspense, tension, and visceral arousal of the first game, as well as adding a new level of realisticity and responsiveness Half-Life 2 opens the door to a universe where the presence of the player affects every aspect of their surroundings including the physical surroundings to the actions and feelings of friends as well as adversaries.
The player picks up the crowbar held by researcher Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an Earth that is getting pounded to the bone and its resources drained, the population shrinking. Freeman gets the role of salvaging humanity from the evil that he did on Black Mesa. A lot of those he is concerned about depends on Freeman.
