

As of November 16, 2004, Half-Life has sold eight million copies. Its gameplay influenced first-person shooters for years to come, and it has since been regarded as one of the greatest games of all time. On its release, critics hailed its overall presentation and numerous scripted sequences, and it won over 50 PC Game of the Year awards. Designed for Microsoft Windows, the game uses a heavily modified version of the Quake engine, called GoldSrc. The game had its first major public appearance at the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Sierra On-Line eventually signed the game after expressing interest in making a 3D action game.

Valve, set up by former Microsoft employees, had difficulty finding a publisher for the game, with many believing that it was "too ambitious" a project. Gordon Freeman, a recent graduate theoretical physicist who must fight his way out of a secret underground research facility, whose research and experiments into teleportation technology have gone wrong. In Half-Life, players assume the role of Dr. First released by Sierra Studios on November 19, 1998, the game was also released for the PlayStation 2 on November 14, 2001.

Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Software and the company's debut product. Microsoft Windows: Novem PlayStation 2: Novemġ33 MHz processor 24 MB RAM SVGA video card Microsoft Windows PlayStation 2 Dreamcast (Unreleased) The box art for Half-Life shows the title on a rusted orange background, below the Greek lambda letter.
