- #Rock paper shotgun half life opposing force full#
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The game is at its best when it's challenging you to complete a series of tasks. It would have been superb if there'd been a few moments where it proved your only successful means of progression, forcing you to experiment with it a bit more, rather than only use when you accidentally click the right mouse. What a rather brilliant idea that they completely fail to do absolutely anything clever with. But it might also deposit you in a brightly coloured oasis of useful bonuses. This does mean you might well teleport yourself above a bottomless drop. The Displacer, an experimental weapon that lets you fire portals the consume enemies and presumably ditch them back home, has an alt-fire that will send you to Xen whenever you wish. Although, rather intriguingly, it doesn't have to be the only time you visit. Your paths cross on your way to a very brief jaunt in the floaty alien terrain, and mercifully once you're there it's substantially simpler than Half-Life's drudging visit. There is of course a nice cameo from Dr Freeman himself, just before your first visit to Xen. I mean - snort! - at one point you see a picture of Gordon Freeman on a wall marked as "Employee of the Month"! I mean! Snort! This is taking place on Gordon's first day of work! And let me tell you about this mistake in Lord Of The Rings. The scientists hit you with a test-tube.Īlthough likely a clue that Opposing Force isn't entirely accurate to the canon. You aren't allowed to call people "four eyes" at Black Mesa. And I fired my Barnacle at him, and it didn't stick! The G-Man is not organic! It's definitely a clue. But in one rather fun moment in Op Force, when having to use the Barnacle to get past a giant Gargantuan tied to a bridge, he's stood exposed on another platform.
As fans of both main Half-Life games will know, this tends to be behind thick glass panes, just watching. At various points in the game the elusive and mysterious G-Man shows up. However, this leads me to a fascinating observation. And if it's a bit of alien plantlife on the walls, ta-da, you've got a grappling hook! If that's an enemy it'll bite them to bits when you get close. But you wear it on your arm! Now it can be fired at anything organic and pull you toward it. Just the humble Half-Life regular enemy - the one that sticks to ceilings, lets down its metres-long tongue and then grabs anything it can find to haul up and gobble.
#Rock paper shotgun half life opposing force full#
At 10 hours long, it's a full game in its own right, and a lovely forgotten entry in the Half-Life universe.The Spore Launcher also offers quite a powerful choice, firing yellow explosive and corrosive orbs, and reloading unlike anything you've ever seen - you feed the creature/weapon the orbs and it greedily swallows them, waiting for your command to regurgitate and spit.īut the best and most inventive tool is the Barnacle. By the second half, you're wielding some spectacularly fun alien weapons, and in some novel situations. In fact, it's at its best when it steps as far from HL as it can. It doesn't match the original, obviously. What a daunting task facing Gearbox, trying to follow-up world-changer Half-Life, and yet they completely hold their own. Quite how Gordon didn't bump into these fellows isn't explained.īut here's the thing - it's a really damned good shooter.
Which is SO FLIPPING ACE! All sequels should be this! It also somehow featured a whole other alien race alongside the Xen, called Race X. It takes place concurrently with the original Half-Life, having you play as one of those shouty-man marines soldiers, occasionally intersecting with the first game's tale.
Starring the wonderfully dully named Corporal Adrian Shephard, it's a really splendid thing. But then I worry that you may have somehow missed out on Opposing Force - a Half-Life expandalone that appeared in 1999, the very first game from Randy Pitchford's Gearbox Software! I think about you, and about how you've obviously played the original Half-Life because you're not a MURDERER, and how you've obviously played Half-Life 2 because you're alive.
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