About This Game Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. 7aa9394dea Title: Half-Life: Opposing ForceGenre: ActionDeveloper:Gearbox SoftwarePublisher:ValveFranchise:Half-LifeRelease Date: 1 Nov, 1999 Half-Life: Opposing Force Download No Survey No Password Yeah its Half Life? Isn't that enough to convince you?. Back when expansions were a full game. 10/10 EA doesn't approve. Half-Life Opposing Force is a stand alone add-on developed by Gearbox for the original Half-Life 1. It's set in the same world and environment only this time from the perspective of one of the U.S. Marines of which were the enemy in the original game.I always enjoyed these add-ons for the different perspectives that overlapping ever so slightly. The detail in these games are great and despite how old they are i still really enjoy them. For me they are quite nostalgic to play, but i imagine maybe for others who are just now coming across these games, they might look a bit crap. With that said, i'd hope that the story would be enough to keep the new audiences interested. The game runs great for it's age. The resolution for my screen wasn't compatible but it wasn't too bad, it was still very playable. Unlike my recent playthrough of Half-Life: Source, this one actually had no bugs or anything that stopped me in my tracks. I had no problems with this game from start to finish. Although, this game was a quite a bit shorter.I sunk about 5 hours into this game and completed it in that time, compared to the original game, which took me a lot longer, this game is fairly short. With that said it's still a great addition to the franchise. As far as mods go, this one was great. There are interesting new additions in this game, a few of which i forgot about. New races of alien, new human enemies and new weapons. All of which kept the game interesting instead of it just feeling like the first one. Again, there is never a dull moment in these games as there is always something around the corner. Some of the puzzles in this game impressed me, as they were just as creative, if not more so, then the first game.All in all I've definitely recommend this game if you have played the first one and can put up with the old style of the game.TL;DR : A great add-on to the original game, it's old but classic. You play from a different perspective from the first, get new weapons, fight new enemies and it's generally just a lot of fun, although shorter then the original game. For anyone interested, My Review for Half-Life: Source:http://steamcommunity.com/id/Stefneh/recommended/280. If you liked Half-Life, this is more of the same except better, with more guns and enemies, higher quality levels. and a campaign that is pretty much equal in length. Also the multiplayer has a lot of cool gamemodes that Half-Life doesn't. Worth buying, especially right now (November 22nd 2016) because it's 99 cents.. (I reccomend you read this one first)Opposing force is very similar to Half-Life, and has you facing a different, but similar group of alien's, as well as some that we have seen from Half-Life. You play as one of the military soldiers that enters Black Mesa, but the twist is that you were never told what you are doing there. There is even a part where you can kill a soldier to save a scientist and get some armor. It introduces new mechanics such as rope climbing, and new puzzles as well. I highly reccomend this game. There are only a few downsides to this game that I did not find in other games. The first is that, despite the training room and the story making you feel like a soldier, and that in Half-Life, you see soldiers everywhere, here you don't see many soldiers that you actually take into combat until about the second half of the game. Even then, you don't work with nearly the amount you fight at once in Half-Life. They also feel the need to put in black-op's soldiers to fight, which I feel is unnecessary (I mean, they have a soldier-like enemy in every HL and HL2 game. I'm more interested in fighting aliens) but it fits. However, I do not understand why you encounter more Black Ops than your own soldiers. The only other negative side to this game is that the boss fight is way easier than it is in Half-Life, for reasons I will not share here. I Still reccomend playing through it though, as the positives outweigh the negatives.. Half-Life: Opposing Force is very well made expansion for Half Life. The ideas for the expansion are brilliant. Returning to the same research facility, but this time as Corporal Adrian Shephard, fighting government agents and aliens and wondering if I will meet myself (Gordon Freeman) at some point, if I can change the history, if more will be explained by experiencing it from a different perspective..New enemies, new weapons, eventually an assistance of up to 3 fellow U.S. Marines. Even though I was playing it on medium difficulty as Half Life before, I felt like I was easier passing through the game with almost no moments of frustration.What I didn't like about the expansion was night vision, being stuck in elevator glitch and the final boss fight. The night vision is way too green, which makes the walking in the darkness very unpleasant. Remember to save before you enter elevators or small tunnels. And finally the last boss frustration. I really liked the game, but the final boss took me 2 hours to kill. First I tried to shoot it and there I wasted most of my ammunition so after I figured out what needs to be done, I decided to use Shock Roach to defeat it. They said I just need to repeat all the action several times and it will eventually die. It didn't. This alien weapon is completely uneffective against it. Even though the final fight destroyed the extremely positive feeling I had about the game, I still recommended it. Avoid the frustration. Learn from mistakes of others. Enjoy the expansion!. I think it's great that they tell the story from the eyes of a marine! Great game.
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