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Half-Life: Opposing Force

Description

Opposing Force is the first official expansion for Half-Life, developed by Gearbox Software under the supervision of the original creator Valve. The storyline of the base game is interwoven into the add-on, as players take on the role of Corporal Adrian Shephard, one of the soldiers sent to the Black Mesa facility to "clean up" the incident and silence any witnesses.

Shephard never reaches his final destination, though: his helicopter is shot down, his squad killed, and he finds himself in a battle for survival against the invading aliens.

Opposing Force takes place concurrently with Half-Life, and Shephard will witness some of the same events (though from a different perspective) and visit some of the same places as Half-Life's protagonist Gordon Freeman did in the original game. The add-on uses the same style of storytelling as Half-Life: everything is seen from the eyes of the protagonist.

The expansion pack consists of 12 new interconnected "levels". There are new weapons and new enemies: Zombie Grunt, Pit Drone, Shock Trooper and Voltigore, plus some new boss creatures.

Another new feature is the ability to command AI-controlled teammates, belonging to different classes: standard grunts and heavy gunners can be called upon for support fire, engineers can cut through doors and medics can restore lost health. Some areas of the game can only be completed with the squadmates' help.

Alternate Titles

• "OF" -- Common abbreviation
• "Hλlf-Life: Opposing Force" -- box and in-game title
• "ハーフライフ: オポージングフォース" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: Quake
• Half-Life series

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User Reviews

The Making of Adrian Shepard	vicrabb (6545)
Isn't it nice to become the enemy for once?	Black Wolf (37232)
That's what an expansion should be!	JudgeDeadd (3488)
True example of better add-on sequel than the original. How's that possible? :)	MAT (35327)
Opposing Farce is more like it...	MasterMegid (864)
Another facet of a gem.	Ray Soderlund (3504)
Redfines what an expansion pack should be!	jeremy strope (126)
Sweet game. Better than the original.	The Big Ragu (4)	unrated
New Story Line That Intersects The Original!	Eric Barbara (56)	unrated

The Press Says

GamePro	Nov 24, 2000		100
PC Gamer	1999	94 out of 100	94
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jan, 2000	90 out of 100	90
Electric Games	2000		90
Pelit	Jan, 2000	90 out of 100	90
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 07, 2001	89 out of 100	89
PC Player (Germany)	Dec, 1999	88 out of 100	88
Power Unlimited	Jan, 2000	8.8 out of 10	88
Jeuxvideo.com	Dec 02, 1999	17 out of 20	85
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Dec 02, 1999	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

There’s a very clever reference to Doom 2. When you meet the final boss, you hear him grunting some weird words. These have a meaning, but they have to be played backwards. Record the sound in-game with a tool like Total recorder or open the pak0.pak file with PakExplorer to extract the file dsbossit from the directory Misc.

When played backwards, you’ll hear the boss say “To win the game, you must kill me, Randy Pitchford”. In Doom 2, when you play the mumbling of the final boss backwards, you could hear him say “To win the game, you must beat me, John Romero”.

Randy Pitchford is a developer for Opposing Force, John Romero was a developer for Doom 2.