Half-Life

Half-Life, Valve's debut 1998 title, blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, it also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Half-Life is also the debut of the GoldSrc engine, and was followed by a Source engine sequel in 2004, Half-Life 2. It is also ported to the engine, and remastered under the name .
A PlayStation 2 port of the game was released in 2001, developed by Gearbox Software, which features many changes which were not present in the PC version of the game.
On November 17, 2023, the game received a major update for its 25th anniversary, simulating the retail/WON menu UI, implementing proper widescreen support with Hor+ FOV and better UI scaling for high-DPI and 4K (or higher) displays, partially fixing support for overbright lighting, and much more. The game was also available for free to keep until November 20. Additionally, Uplink and content from Half-Life: Further Data was added to the game. The downside with this update however, is that several non-standalone GoldSrc mods (except custom content and textures) and games (like Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic and more) were initially broken with this update; Valve provides a beta build () to revert to the version prior to the update, to fix the mod incompatibility.
== Content ==
* Half-Life maps ()
* Half-Life HD pack ()
* GoldSrc shared ()
* GoldSrc code
== Chapters ==
Half-Life has total of 20 chapters, 19 of which are playable.
There are 14 (15 with Hazard Course) chapters set in Black Mesa and 4 (5 with Endgame) chapters set in Xen.
== Official multiplayer maps ==
The original release of Half-Life included 8 multiplayer maps:
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Subsequent updates, patches, and several web-site exclusive releases (such as for and ) throughout 1998-1999, added the following:
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'Half-Life: Further Data', a retail-released series of CDs released in February 1999 with more additional content, included the following maps:
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The February 2001 Mapping Contest winner, 
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was added in a patch.
The 'Half-Life: Further Data' content was added to the Steam version of 'Half-Life' in November 2023 in celebration of the series' 25th Anniversary, which also added brand new maps:
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== Credits ==
== Bugs and Limitations ==
Visit GitHub page in order to prevent duplicate or outdated bug reports at the wiki.
For engine specific bugs, see Bugs and Limitations at GoldSrc page.
== System Requirements ==
Windows (Retail/WON version):
*Windows / / 4.0
*166 MHz CPU
*32 MB RAM
*500 MB disk space
* , or 6.0+ compatible 
Windows (Steam version):
*Windows 7 or later
*800 MHz CPU
*512 MB RAM
*4 GB disk space
*32 MB video card
OS X:
* 10.6.3
*Intel processor
*1 GB RAM
*4 GB disk space
*Nvidia or X1600 video card or 3000
Linux:
* 12.04, 1.0
*2.8 GHz Dual Core processor
*1 GB RAM
*4 GB disk space
*Nvidia Geforce 8600/9600 GT or ATI (AMD) Radeon HD 2600/3600 video card
*OpenGL 2.1 or above
*For Nvidia: 310 driver version
*For ATI (AMD): 12.11 driver version
*-compatible audio
== See also ==
* Half-Life ports:
** PlayStation 2 version
** Cancelled Dreamcast version
** Half-Life: Source - remaster, ported to the engine.
* Black Mesa - Fan-made remake of Half-Life, running on engine.
* Half-Life 2 - Sequel to Half-Life
* Half-Life.fgd
* Half-Life SDK
* Mods on VDC
== External links ==
* on Combine OverWiki
* on Wikipedia
Category:Open source mods and games