https://alinuxuser.com/tags/half-life/ Recent content in Half Life on alinuxuser https://alinuxuser.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://alinuxuser.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo en-us Sat, 16 Sep 2023 15:37:00 -0500 https://alinuxuser.com/posts/2023/09/reviews/halflifeblueshift_review/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 15:37:00 -0500 https://alinuxuser.com/posts/2023/09/reviews/halflifeblueshift_review/ <p>Well worth the $0.50 I paid for it.</p> <p>A thoroughly functional game, which does not outlast its welcome. It tells a concise story, and it fills in the gaps of the main Half-Life game. It took me a little under 4 hours to finish Blue Shift.</p> <p>Technically, it is competent, but the original Half-Life engine has aged poorly. It worked fine at 2560x1440 resolution, but the game looks dated. I found it hard at times to distinguish textures that are meant to be interactive, because of how blurry the textures are at the resolution I am playing. I had to refer to the walkthrough a couple of times because I missed a switch that was right in front, but I did not identify it because textures tend to blend with each other.</p> https://alinuxuser.com/posts/2006/08/01_nowplayinghalflife/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500 https://alinuxuser.com/posts/2006/08/01_nowplayinghalflife/ <h4 id="609-pm-8272006">6:09 PM 8/27/2006</h4> <p>Well, I had see what the fuss was all about, so I finally started playing Half Life. I had this game for over 5 years now, and I played a little bit back then and gave up&hellip;.I can&rsquo;t remember why. Anyway, I started this game a while ago, and I managed to finish quite a bit till now.</p> <p>I can imagine why this game became so popular back in 1999. The graphics were really good for its time, after all it&rsquo;s the Quake 2 engine we are talking about! The game play is not repetitive, and the level design is great.</p>