The third and final Half-Life expansion, Decay, was an exciting entry in the franchise’s history. Half-Life was originally released for Windows in 1998, it was ported to the PlayStation 2 in 2001, and it was also brought to macOS and Linux in 2013.
All of this comes together to form a very memorable gaming experience that holds up rather well even today. The game features many enemies, aliens and humans alike, and it features some platforming and puzzles as well. After an experiment goes wrong and the Black Mesa Research Facility is turned into a nightmare flooded with alien lifeforms, it’s up to Gordon to set things straight, which he does the classic FPS way - with an arsenal of big guns. The game put the player in the shoes of Gordon Freeman, the silent protagonist whom the player controls through the wholeness of the first game and most of the series. Sure, it may seem like nothing special in retrospect, but it truly stood out at the time since it featured great-looking 3D environments and placed a greater accent on storytelling than most FPS games of that time. Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 2, Linux, macOSĭeveloped by Valve and released in 1998, the original Half-Life was quite something.
