Half-Life
Valve's signature shooter
Half-Life is a landmark 1998 first-person shooter video game developed by Valve, featuring physicist Gordon Freeman fighting aliens after a laboratory accident.
The game revolutionized storytelling in shooters by presenting narrative without cutscenes.
Its sequel Half-Life 2 (2004) was equally influential.
I'm still waiting for Half-Life 3. (Lowercase half-life is a scientific term for decay rate.)
Valve
Game studio and storefront
- Sci-Fi GamesMass Effect, Halo, Destiny, Metroid, TIE Fighter
- sci-fiscience fiction, Star Wars, sci-fi, Blade Runner 2049, aliens
- 90s GamingFinal Fantasy VII, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro
- shootersshooter, sniper, rifle, pistol, shotgun
- ValveSteam, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal 2
- Sierra GamesPhantasmagoria, Shivers, SWAT, Caesar, Red Baron
video game franchise contrast
Half-LifeDuke Nukem
Call of Duty · Quake · Halo · Medal of Honor · Wolfenstein
nuclear physics measurement
Half-Lifepermanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
stability · eternal · undecaying · whole life