Half-Life: Platinum Collection
Run. Think. Shoot. Live
The Half-Life Platinum Collection contains five award-winning titles in total, making it the ultimate in both single-player and multiplayer action gaming.
Half-Life Platinum Includes: - Half-Life Game of the Year Edition - Half-Life: Opposing Force - Team Fortress Classic - Counter-Strike - Blue Shift
"A dizzying marriage of non-stop action and narrative."
-Computer Gaming World "The closest thing to starring in an action movie."
-The Chicago Tribune **HALF-LIFE
"Best PC Game Ever"**
-PC Gamer, Feb. 2000 **OPPOSING FORCE
AIAS 1999 Action Game of the Year
TEAM FORTRESS CLASSIC
CGW's Best Online Game - 2000 Premier Awards
COUNTER-STRIKE
Gamespot's 2000 Multiplayer Game of the Year
BLUE SHIFT
4 Stars**
-Computer Gaming World, July 2001
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Back of Box (US)
"...Half-Life hasn't just changed the way first-person action games are made and played, it's changed the gamers' expectations of what a game should be, or can be."
- PC Gamer **AWARDED GAME OF THE YEAR BY OVER 50 PUBLICATIONS
HALF-LIFE
You are Gordon Freeman, research associate at Black Mesa. Your experiment has gone wrong, spawning an alien outbreak, and a military death squad intent on exterminating you and your fellow colleagues.
OPPOSING FORCE
Return to Black Mesa as a military specialist tasked with eliminating Gordon Freeman, and ensuring that all evidence of an alien outbreak is concealed.
TEAM FORTRESS CLASSIC
Play online as Medic, Soldier, Sniper, Engineer, or five other roles in this wildly successful team-based multiplayer action game.
COUNTER-STRIKE
Play as either terrorist or counter-terrorist in the most popular team-based action experience in all of gaming. Featuring dozens of real world locations and an arsenal of authentic weapons.
BLUE SHIFT
Explore previously restricted areas of the mysterious Black Mesa government facility as the security guard who allied with Gordon Freeman in the original thriller. Includes the Half-Life HD Pack.**
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Inside Flaps (US)
The critics all agree, Half-Life has been awarded 50 "Game of the Year" titles in publications across the world. Also billed as "Best game Ever" by the UK Publication PC Gamer. Half-life offers an immense environment, a rich storyline and intelligent enemies. The most gripping and intense gaming experience ever. Are you ready to belong to the Half-Life Generation?
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Back of Box (UK)
The game:
Telling friend from foe is no longer a simple matter of humans vs. aliens.
Half-Life blends action, drama, and adventure with stunning technology to create a f'right'eningly realistic world where players need to think smart to survive, and telling friend from foe is no longer a simple matter of humans vs. aliens. Gamers are given opportunities to wreak havoc - in true action-game fashion - but they are also challenged to explore and strategies. Originally created for the PC by Valve, Half-Life has won more than 50 Game of the Year awards from publications around the world, was named "Best PC Game Ever" by PC Gamer magazine (July 2001), and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
**Includes four award winning titles: Half-Life - Game of the Year Edition
Opposing Force - The Official Expansion Set
CounterStrike - The Counter Terrorism Experience
NEW: Blue-Shift - The Latest Official Expansion Set
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Vivendi Universal Games UK website - Windows
HALF-LIFE: Ha nacido una nueva generación de juegos para PC
Los críticos están de acuerdo: Half-Life ha sio elegido "Mejor juego del año" por más de 50 publicaciones internacionales y "Mejor juego de la historia del pc" por la prestigiosa revista inglesa PC Gamer. Half-Life es una espectacular mezcla de acción y aventura en un mundo temiblemente real. Una acción intensa, un guión de cine y enemigos extremadamente inteligentes ¿Estás preparado para pertenecer a la generación Half-Life?
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Back of box (Spanish edition)
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