Progress through the world is continuous, except for short pauses for loading. Half-Life has no “levels” it instead divides the game into chapters, whose titles flash on the screen as the player moves through the game. In line with this the player rarely loses the ability to control Gordon, who never speaks and is never actually seen in the game the player sees “through his eyes” for the entire length of the game. Compared to most first-person shooters of the time, which relied on cut-scene intermissions to detail their plotlines, Half-Life’s story is told mostly by means of scripted sequences (bar one short cutscene), keeping the player in control of the first-person viewpoint. Half-Life used scripted sequences, such as a Vortigaunt ramming down a door, to advance major plot points. Half-Life (stylized as HλLF-LIFE) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and published by Sierra Studios for Microsoft Windows in 1998. Download Half-Life for free on PC – this page will show you how to download and install the full version of Half-Life 1 on PC.
