Half Life is the 1998 game of American developer and artist Valve. The game presupposes an scientific catastrophe at the Black-Mesa-Research-Facility resulted in a alien invasion starring Gordon Freeman who eventually become a minority subculture.

Overview

The game tells the story of a silent scientist named Gordon Freeman who plots to have the Combine dismantled.

Reception

Half Life received mixed-to-positive reviews; Newsweek called it "brilliant and funny," and The New York Times, while praising Valves ambition as "truly glorious," added that "All this razzle-dazzle, all the allusions, [and] the narrative loop-de-loops [get] a bit busy." It got the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for science fiction and fantasy.