Taken separately, no particular element in Half-Life shines above the rest, nothing makes or breaks the game. The creatures in some respects are fairly standard, and many of the levels have been done before. The weapons aren't spectacular either, just your usual array of realistic modern firearms and a few alien gadgets with some new twists. Its design couldn't be simpler: get some guns, run, shoot, jump no laborious cutscenes or misplaced RPG elements here. Its genre, the first-person shooter, has nearly been beaten to death.
There's nothing exceptional about the engine-it's a heavily modified version of Id Software's Quake. It will be hard for some-mainly those who haven't played the game-to put their finger on exactly what everyone is raving about. But mighty it is, the best single player shooter I've ever played. Valve Software is a start-up, a relative unknown, with no track and, really, no business making such a mighty game.
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