Half Life 1 - Review

HEY GUYS, RATATOUILLE HERE. TODAY WE'RE REVIEWING HALF-Life 1

             Half Life is a game made by Valve way back when George Washington was president in 1998. The game starts with a man named Gordon Freeman, who literally never talks, not even while being shot. Gordon is going to work at the anomalous materials lab in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Gordon sucks at his job though so Black Mesa ends up going crazy mode and a bunch of aliens from the planet Xen come through a portal or something. I played this game with a friend using a Mod but single player is the same thing. In this game you will die, a lot. The combat is repetitive but insanely fun and challenging. The puzzles can be extremely confusing and ambiguous at times, some puzzles take so long to figure out that in the time it took me to complete I had already found the best value 4 bedroom apartment in New Mexico.

             One part of this game that baffles me to this day are the speed runners. Watching a group of people speed through the game, clipping in and out of walls, flying over entire areas, and gaining massive speed boosts out of thin air is nothing short of impressive. I myself have tried one of the techniques they used, the bunny hop. When they bunny hop it's comparable to "Kung Fu Panda". When I bunny hop it's comparable to the Brazilian bootleg "The Little Panda Fighter"

             If you want a fun game to play with your buddy's for a weekend then download this game for free off of the Steam store. If you're on console that's too bad whoop bye bye.

7/10 Put it on easy if you're bad at video games.