V-Day!!!!!! Congratulations, beatzo! No bugs.
I bought a new mouse, and 40 blank cds. Mega-fraggidalistic-burn session to follow.
Playing Half-life again reminds me of how much I enjoyed the game the first time. I still am. Everything, right from the storyline – a healthy mixture of a sci-fi thriller and a Conspiracy theory nightmare, the characters – bumbling scientists and helpful Security guards, the enemies – scary jumpaliens – creepy crawly critters who would take away Gordon’s health if they touched him, acid-spitting raptors, and then, the soldiers – a major gaming experience…. Me and Priom had played Half-Life:Day One, the extended demo version together. The frustration we had, midway through the game, when Gordon manages to get inside a bunker, after having escaped from aliens galore and regiments of soldiers, and then a door suddenly opens, with soldiers being aero-dropped from a helicopter, all with guns blazing, and then the screen goes dark. “To be continued” slowly scrolls across.
*Groan*
Not fair!!!!
Priom went home for the Hols, and he bought the game there in Bangladesh, and tried to play it by himself. Got stuck at a point. Brought it over when hwe came back, and in two weeks, yours truly had completed the game. Priom, the asshole, still thinks I used a walkthrough. Bah!
The game has some amazing moments. One of the toughest moments involves a three headed monster that hears your steps, (it’s blind) as you pass by, and one strike, you are chopped salami. So you have to crouch and pass by, climb three levels, sometimes use grenades to distract its hearing when it gets too close. The monster is HUGE, actually, it can reach you at any point of the three levels of the tower. The slower you are, the lesser the chances are of its hearing you.
Then there is the point where you find ninja-like assassins after you. You hear the pitter-patter of footsteps, and suddenly they fire at you, and vanish immediately. The fun part comes when you’ve somehow managed to dispatch them. Open the surface access gate. Go in, slowly. The lights go off. Sounds of a scuffle. You are a prisoner.
The way the whole story builds up, a mysterious man with a briefcase making brief appearances, with you unable to hit him or talk to him…..the AI of the soldiers, the claustrophobic arena that is the Black Mesa complex – Half-Life is something that’s always gonna be close to my heart.
The storyline of the game, incidentally, was written by a certain Marc Laidlaw.
The only other full FPS I played after HL, i guess, was Half-Life: Blue Shift, and Max Payne. Blue Shift was too short, and Payne was deadly!
Hot news: HL2 is coming in September. This is what a PC World reporter, who played some of the demo code, has to say – “… Words failed me. My body felt exhausted as I relaxed my taut muscles,drained from the tension of watching a game which is re-writing the rule book and making a mockery out of every other first-person shooter I’ve ever seen. If you don’t believe me, buy a ticket to E3, and find out for yourself. One things for sure though, come September, the world of gaming will change forever, and just like four years ago, its Valve that is showing us the way. With 40 hours of gameplay promised, its going to be one hell of a ride. All of a sudden, September seems like a very, very long way away …”
Hoo- ah!
had fun reading this :)
Play the game, I assure you it’s mindblowing!
where can i get it from? (dial up connection)
I dunno about Bombay, isn’t there any place u get pirated game cds from? I think u can get Half-life just any place, pirated for 70-120 Rs, or if u have conscience problems, check out Crossword/Waldenbooks. You get the original for 500 Rs.
Hey, I had got stuck at the three headed monster level. Fooled around for a while and then gave up. Need to return to it, once I figure out how to do it. And oh, I have the walkthrough..haven’t checked it yet though.
Ah! There is a point there where u need to switch on the generaotr, and then go around and switch on a fan. What you need to do after that is ….
well, figure that out. The way to get past the monsters, like I said, was to do it slowly, and use grenades liberally.
Damn, I did manage to switch on the fan and float up. Then found myself where I started off. Hmmm.
OK, if u got the jumping up and floating on the fan part, u should get the rest quite easily. I took a long time to actually figure out what the fan was used for. ;-)
From there you have to find your way to the fuel room ( which cannot be opened from outside), and switch it on. I assume u have already started the generator. Then come back to the blast room(this is the room where u first saw the monster). Hasta la vista, monster-bay-bee!