Half-Life Series Playthrough (Half-Life / Half-Life 2 / Black Mesa)
47 videos • 158 views • by St. George's Games A detailed playthrough for Valve's classic Half-Life series, recorded in 1080p (including the Black Mesa remake of the original Half-Life). All games played on the Hard difficulty and oriented at capturing maximum detail. Completed games: 1. Half-Life (1998; original, not Source, version), in 8 episodes. Gordon Freeman, particle physicist and the world's most notorious crowbar user, saves humanity from an alien invasion inadvertently caused by a disastrous scientific experiment at the Black Mesa facility. 2. Half-Life: Opposing Force (2000), in 4 episodes. The first expansion pack to the original Half-Life. Corporal Adrian Shephard, US Marine, is sent in to investigate the consequences of the Black Mesa disaster and is forced to fight for his own life against the forces of Xen, the mysterious Race X, and his own country's Black Ops. 3. Half-Life: Blue Shift (2001), in 3 episodes. The second expansion pack to the original Half-Life. Barney Calhoun, Black Mesa security guard, has to save a group of scientists and get them to safety by means of a teleporting device - to repair which he must travel into another dimension. 4. Half-Life 2 (2004), in 10 episodes. Gordon Freeman returns to Earth after his long and strange stasis period, only to discover it overtaken by the alien Combine and turned into a dystopian nightmare. Gordon's job now is to locate members of the Resistance and lead a concentrated assault on The Citadel, from which the new overlords are dictating their terms to all survivors. 5. Half-Life Episodes 1 + 2 (2006-07), in 3+4 chapters respectively. The sequels to Half-Life 2, featuring the ongoing adventures of Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance as they continue to thwart the Combine's plans of quashing the Resistance - all the way up to the infamous cliffhanger that seems to have suspended the Half Life saga once and for all. 6. Black Mesa (2020), the fan-made remake of the original Half-Life, in 13 episodes. This is still the early version of the game, awaiting a more thorough re-recording in its final incarnation.