Half-Life (series)
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Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter games created by Valve. The games combine shooting combat, puzzles and storytelling, and are played entirely from the first-person perspective.
Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell at The International 2018
Half-Life 2
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Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It was published for Windows on Valve's digital distribution service, Steam. Like the original Half-Life,
Half-Life (series)
…Half-Life was followed by the expansions Opposing Force (1999), Blue Shift (2001) and Decay (2001), developed by Gearbox Software. In 2004, Valve released Half-Life 2, developed using their game engine Source. It features a more dystopian setting, stronger focus on characters and physics-based gameplay. Set twenty…
Half Life 2 cover
A screenshot of the player engaging enemy antlions
A square in City 17, showing the Source engine's lighting and shadow effects