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Summary: Why is this the best PC game ever? Well, let's find out...
Review: A few short years ago when Half-Life was originally released, my life began to change. No longer was I worried about what television show would be airing that evening, but instead, what I needed to do in order to defeat the level I was currently on in Half-Life. And so it became an addiction... When Opposing Force came out, my need for more Half-Life was fulfilled. I also began to play Team Fortress Classic (TFC) online for hour upon hour everyday. These two new expansions/mods for Half-Life were by far the best games out at the time. With regularity I still have urges to play TFC today. However, none of these even begin to compare to Counter-Strike.
Counter-Strike, still today, is hands down the best game of any type in history. It combines the genres of strategy and first person shooter like no other game ever has. For the past 15 months I have played CS for about 4 hours every day, and I have never even begun to get tired of it in the least bit (and I usually only play a game for a week or two). Although many may tell you that broadband is needed to play this game, thousands of people play it everyday with slower connections without a problem at all.
After reading this, you are probably asking yourself whether or not you should buy this game. Well, the answer is yes! It's not often that you get the chance to own four of the best games of all time for [the price], which is the case here; so go ahead, indulge yourself and buy it today!
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Summary: Half-Life and Online playing
Review: Honestly, this Platinum edition offers everything you could want in a first person "shooter" game.In the package, you get Half-Life, Opposing Force, Team Fortress, and Counter Strike. All games are more than worthy of being called classics in their own time. HOWEVER, what truly pushes this over the top is the ability to get ONLINE and fight with other human opponents. As a lover of DOOM, Descent, and Duke Nukem 3D, I thought I had played all the best first-person shooter games (as of 1998). Then I played Half-Life! With an NVidia GForce2, I am getting between 60-99 FPS (frames per second). The graphics are excellent and the play is smooth. One warning though with this game: ONCE YOU PLAY IT ONLINE, YOU WILL NEVER EVER HAVE ENOUGH TIME IN YOUR LIFE TO PLAY THIS GAME. It is truly awesome and the Half-Life community is a welcoming one...as well as challenging. Simply put: BUY THIS GAME...GET CONNECTED...AND PLAY UNTIL YOUR EYEBALLS ROLL BACK IN YOUR HEAD.
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Summary: Dont buy this, it isn't a complete set
Review: This compilation of 4 great Half-Life based games is a somewhat bastardized version of the superior title which was released under the same name a while later. If you buy this version, you are not getting the entire collection. The new version contains yet another expansion to Half-Life that is worth playing. The original Platinum Collections contain:
1. Half-Life (The original, which started it all, a great game.)
2. Half-Life:Opposing force (1st official expansion to Half-Life)
3. Team Fortress Classic (A mediocre multiplayer mod from Sierra)
4. Counter-Strike (The ultimate multiplayer game. This alone is worth the entire price, although you can get it for free if you own Half-Life, which you will if you buy this collection.) The new version contains an expansion to the original called Blue Shift. In this expansion you play as a security guard in the Black Mesa compound (the same area as the original). It is just as fun as the original, but shorter. You can usually find the newer pack (it is grey, not platinum or silver, and says 5 games in one on the front) at any large chain retail stores such as Target, Wal-Mart,or K-Mart. Hope this review can be of some help.
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Summary: Half-Life
Review: 3 Years ago Half Life came out. Now, there are 5 editions to the game. 2 Multiplayer games, and 3 single player. The orginal game was low in graphics, but GREAT in gameplay. The story line was great. In Opposing Force, the time was the same, you even run into Gordan. The graphics were better, but the game play once again was the best. Blue Shift came out last year(Not Included). It's a short game, it fixes the graphics in the rest of the games, but the gameplay of course is the best. Exitment around every corner. You never know what is going to happen next. Team Forces Classic is the mulitiplayer game that never ends. You pick your class from Enginner to spy. It's a great starter to anyones online gaming. Counter-Strike is basicly about Terroist (Great) and Counter-Terroist. Bomb targets, save people. A Great package.
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Summary: If you still don't own Half-Life...
Review: And you own a PC, shame on you! Alright, here's what you need to do. Look up "Half-Life: Platinum Collection" and put it in your shopping basket. Check out. Here's what you get. Half-Life: The original and although somewhat dated graphically, it is still a cracking good FPS. The game is just fun to play from soup to nuts and loaded with atmosphere. The levels are more innovative than anything before or since. Half-Life: Opposing Force This game got a 93% courtesy of PC Gamer and that is absolutely remarkable considering this is basically just a Half-Life mod, although a bloody creative one! You'll love the boot-camp sequence and hey, R. Lee Ermey is in it! What more do you need? And you also get... Counter-Strike: Still the most popular online FPS. and... Team Fortress: Classic WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED? Dude, buy the package.
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Summary: The best gaming package ever!
Review: The best way to get into Half-Life is to own it and every element of it so why not own it for the price of one game! If you are like me you like to have it all. I started playing the Half-Life games, purchasing them one by one spending alot of money, but it was worth it. But now since all the games are bundled together you can take the same path many people have been doing; starting at Half-Life and working to Counter-Strike and being a Half-Life MASTER for cheap! Half-Life -- You are Gordon Freeman, a research associate at the Black Mesa Research facility. It was just another day at the lab until your experiment blew up in your face. Now, with aliens coming through the walls, a military death squad on the rampage, and your panicking colleagues at the top of the endangered species list, you need to scramble to stay alive. Team Fortress Classic -- This online action game features a wide array of character classes from Medic to Spy to Demolition Man enlisted in a unique style of online team warfare. TFC has been downloaded by millions of people, becoming one of the most popular online action games of all time. Half-Life: Opposing Force -- Return to the Black Mesa Research facility as one of the military specialists sent to eliminate Gordon Freeman. In addition to its exciting single-player experience, Opposing Force features a large collection of fresh multiplayer content including new weapons, player characters and 15 new multiplayer maps. Half-Life: Counter-Strike -- The ultimate multiplayer gaming experience, Half-Life: Counter-Strike combines all the elements of the Half-Life online universe with all new single- and multiplayer content. At the heart of this package is the Counter-Strike MOD, the number one played online action game built as an add-on for Half-Life. Counter-Strike is team-based, and casts players in the role of terrorist or counter-terrorist. Also included are three new MODs created by some of the top level designers within the Half-Life community. Counter-Strike has been the last big Half-Life mod out since Team Fortress Classic and will be in heavy competition with Team Fortress Classic 2 when that ships. Just do yourself a favor and play all of Half-Life. It is a fun and extremely exiting adventure that you wont regret!
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Summary: Half-Life Platinum Edition
Review: I Was EXTREMLY impressed With this game!!
First Half-Life it's the classic game.Basically you a scientist who's try to stop aliens from taking the world over.(I know it sounds kind of chessey but it reall is fun)On top of aliens you have to take care of about 400 marines.Oy!
Next Opposing Force.Now you on the other side of things playing as a marine,You're tryin to seek and destroy Gordon Freemen (Main Charater from HL)on top of Aliens you have to fight the special forces.this game is fun.it has the original guns from Hl plus more like a fully auto Macine gun,a Sniper rifle,and a desert eagle.
Counter-Strike and team fotress are both Awesome multiplayer games!! the grapics are mind boggling and the detail of the guns is amazing!!!
This is a must have for any fan of a 1st Person shooter.
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Summary: If you still don't own Half-Life...
Review: And you own a PC, shame on you! Alright, here's what you need to do. Look up "Half-Life: Platinum Collection" and put it in your shopping basket. Check out. Here's what you get. Half-Life: The original and although somewhat dated graphically, it is still a cracking good FPS. The game is just fun to play from soup to nuts and loaded with atmosphere. The levels are more innovative than anything before or since. Half-Life: Opposing Force This game got a 93% courtesy of PC Gamer and that is absolutely remarkable considering this is basically just a Half-Life mod, although a bloody creative one! You'll love the boot-camp sequence and hey, R. Lee Ermey is in it! What more do you need? And you also get... Counter-Strike: Still the most popular online FPS. and... Team Fortress: Classic WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED? Dude, buy the package.
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Summary: Not Worth Buying
Review: HL is an awesome game with many modifications out there. The CDis not worth the price they charge. Counter-strike, Team Fortress, and Opposing Forces all come with the HL game of the year edition CD. Well, TFC and OPF at least hehe. CS is free to d/l off the web any way. The game is great, go buy hl:goty and d/l the updates so u can play tfc, opf, cs, dod, or whatever you like for free off the internet lol. If you're dumb you'd buy this to tell you the truth
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Summary: Not the full Half-Life collection
Review: Although it includes Opposing Force, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress Classic, it is filled mainly with things that you can download from the internet with the exception of Opposing Force. Team Fortress comes with the Half-Life patch, and the version of Counter-Strike that comes with the pack is the retail (buggy) version. I am running on a 512k ADSL connection and so the only 2 things in the pack I needed was Half-Life and Opposing Force... Sierra has an newer version of the Platinum Edition but it is not reflected here on Amazon.com It includes Half-Life, Team Fortress Classic, Opposing Force, Counter-Strike and Blue Shift. It is somewhat similar to the Generations Edition.
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