On November 19, 1998, Half-Life was released for the PC.

A likely explanation for the multitude of bugs is that the game may have been rushed to meet the 1998 Christmas season, possibly as an attempt to beat Half-Life to market.

These shortcomings, coupled with the great success of Half-Life, resulted in SiN not achieving as much success as the developers had hoped, although it did attain a moderate amount of sales during the 1998 Christmas period.

Half-Life: Counter-Strike, a mod of Half-Life ( 1998 ), was the most popular multiplayer game of its era.

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It was for instance used in the 1998 video game Half-Life for the flying bird-like creatures seen at the end of the game on Xen, named " boid " in the game files.

The interface of Valve's Hammer Editor, the SDK's world-creation tool, has not changed significantly since its initial release for GoldSrc and the original Half-Life in 1998.

GoldSrc, the engine derived from the Quake engine by Valve Corporation for Half-Life ( 1998 ), added Direct3D support, and a skeletal framework to better render the NPCs, and also greatly improved the NPCs artificial intelligence ( AI ) compared to the Quake engine.

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He joined Valve Software while they were developing Half-Life ( 1998 ) and worked on the game's story and level design.

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It since has had several incarnations ( six plus three currently in development ) on most of the predominant FPS games released since 1998 ( in the Quake, Unreal, Half-Life and Tribes series ).

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* GoldSource Engine – First engine to be created by Valve Corporation, and was used on the Half-Life series, gave rise to the Source engine.

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It was also the first Half-Life mod to feature akimbo pistols ( although they are treated as one weapon ).

Many reviewers were critical of the short length of the game and the lack of new content, although the inclusion of a High Definition pack that upgraded the models and textures in both Blue Shift and the preceding Half-Life games was praised.

In a review for IGN, critic Tal Blevins noted that Blue Shifts gameplay " is pretty much what we've come to expect out of Half-Life " by blending action and puzzle solving, stating that the latter " were all logical and well done, although some of the jumping puzzles were frustrating ".

The atmosphere generated by the dystopian Combine state has been praised by reviewers, although the artificial intelligence of the transhuman Combine characters was thought to be inferior to that of other characters in Half-Life 2.

Female Combine assassins, similar to black operations assassins featured in the first game, were planned but later abandoned, although they appear in the Half-Life 2: Survivor arcade game.

Other synths are seen near the end of the Half-Life 2, although their roles are not elaborated on.

While The Electric Playground reviewer Steve Smith stated that the control scheme for the PlayStation 2 version of Half-Life " is about the best we have seen on the PS2 or any console ", he concluded that although Decay was a " nice add-on ", it was " no reason to buy this port ".

Vortigaunts use scattered English words in Half-Life to taunt the player, although by Half-Life 2 they have learned to speak at least the English language fluently, albeit using archaic words and grammatical structures.

In Half-Life, this eye is surrounded by five smaller eyes, although in Half-Life 2 this has been reduced to three smaller eyes.

Vortigaunts are not typically seen wearing clothing, although several Vortigaunts are observed wearing lab coats and chef's clothing in the course of Half-Life 2 and its expansions.

Vortigaunts are depicted as meat eaters ; the player can observe Vortigaunts eating human corpses in Half-Life and cooking headcrabs in Half-Life 2, although Half-Life 2 also shows Vortigaunts working in kitchens with chef hats, preparing soups and salads, suggesting that Vortigaunts are omnivores.

Epic's Unreal Tournament series has shifted almost entirely towards deathmatch modes ( although it does retain a " team deathmatch " mode ), and significant FPS releases such as Doom 3, Quake 4, and both Half-Life ( Other than addon Decay for Half Life 1 ) titles shipped without cooperative gameplay modes.

IGN awarded Episode One with the title of " Best PC FPS of 2006 " and described it as a " great bang for the buck using Valve's new episodic plan ", although it did not offer " the complete experience that Half-Life 2 was ".

They Hunger features little original Half-Life content apart from the revolver, some sound clips, a few types of ammunition the player can pick up, and a few other minor details, although many weapons and NPCs are simply re-skins of the content in Half-Life.

Instead, Valve announced that Half-Life 3 will be released, also with no official release date.

This pushing back of HL2s release date came in the wake of the cracking of Valve's internal network through a null session connection to Tangis which was hosted in Valve's network and a subsequent upload of an ASP shell, resulting in the leak of the game's source code and many other files including maps, models and a playable early version of Half-Life Source and Counter-Strike Source in early September 2003.

At the European Computer Trade Show in September 2000, information about Blue Shifts story and development direction was revealed, along with a release date of November 1, 2000, for the Dreamcast version of Half-Life.

After its shutdown, users who tried to connect to WON in games such as the retail version of Half-Life would receive an error message, for example, claiming that the game client is out of date.

To date, the PHLWiki contains over a hundred articles dealing with fictional Half-Life characters, creatures and locations in an in-universe, encyclopedic form as well as real life articles on mods, player terminology and strategy guides.

Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh " Gooseman " Le and Jess " Cliffe " Cliffe.

Counter-Strike which is a Half-Life mod allows user to create their own and tag in game.

* A modified ( block style ) Lambda is used as a recurring symbol in the Valve computer game series Half-Life, referring to the Lambda complex of the fictional Black Mesa Research Facility.

In Half-Life 2 and its Episodes, the encircled block lambda is the universal symbol of the Resistance, often spraypainted to mark the location of safehouses and hidden supply caches ; full-time Resistance members wear armbands containing a lower-case lambda without the circle.

* In Half-Life 2, Gordon Freeman is armed with a device called the " Zero-Point Energy Field Manipulator " or simply the " Gravity Gun ", which can pick up, throw, and " punt " heavy or sharp objects with little or no physical effort.

* In the video game Portal, yet another similar gun to Half-Life 2 < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s, which is titled the " Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device ", can create a weaker zero-point energy field by simply lifting objects and carrying them, but cannot throw or pull in from a distance.

* Another similar gun to Half-Life 2's gravity gun called the " Capture gun " appears as the primary tool in the Wii video game Elebits, where it is used to manipulate objects and capture the titular creatures.

* Half-Life mod USS Darkstar is set in 2066.

Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation, the company's debut product and the first in the Half-Life series.

The protagonist of Valves Half-Life: Opposing Force is a US Marine Corporal named Adrian Shephard.

* In the Half-Life 2 mod Korsakovia, the player character Christopher is under treatment for Korsakoff's Syndrome.

One of the changes to the network code is a move from the per-polygon hit detection system used in Doom 3 back to using a hitbox system like most other online first-person shooters such as other Quake games and Half-Life.

An example of this is the game Counter-strike, which began as a mod of the video game Half-Life and eventually became a published game in its own right that was very successful.

As of 2008, the game is one of the ten most played Half-Life modifications in terms of players, according to GameSpy.

Among popular mods, none is more well known than the Half-Life multiplayer mod Counter-Strike, which was released shortly after the original game, and upwards of 1 million games per day are hosted on dedicated servers.

Later mod making tools include The Elder Scrolls Construction Set which shipped with Morrowind, the Aurora toolset which was included with Neverwinter Nights, FRED and FRED2, the mission editors for Freespace and Freespace 2 respectively, the Obsidian tool set for Neverwinter Nights 2, the Garden of Eden Creation Kit SDK for Fallout 3 and the Valve Hammer Editor which is used to create maps for Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and various other games based on the Source engine ( older versions also supported the Quake engine ).

Steam for Half-Life 2 mods is an example.

As of 2008, the game is one of the ten most played Half-Life modifications in terms of players, according to GameSpy.