Half-Life is as classic as you can get

The game starts slow, with ride to the work through the Black Mesa facility, where we play as Gordon Freeman and just continue our work as theoretical physics scientist as usual, but in our procedure, we accidentally creates an apocalypse scenario, which we will witness the fallout off it.

The combat loop is tight and inherintly fast paced with methodology of "Run, Think, Shoot and Live" through encounter to encounter. Fighting against aliens and against soldiers is exhilarating; two different factions with two different strategies that you need to approach accordingly.

The pacing of the campain, or at least the overworld section, is one of the best made. Escaping the failing facility through it's different sectors, finding survivors and discovering more and more about the facility we worked with. Activating last resort prevention of alien invasion and surviving the warzone to get to the Lambda facility is some of the best sections of the game.

Some of the best shooting campaings next to Half Life 2, Doom Eternal and Titanfall 2 and would have been perfect if not for the Xen chapters.

Xen feels like an afterthought in otherwise easiest 10/10 shooting experience possible I could give. Confusing layout, pacing halts to the snail's pace - especially in Interlopers chapter, complete lack of any resources to survive anything except from some random dead scientists' stash, drab color scheme reminding me of various color of vomit and textures of vein holes, which might have awakened Trypophobia in some of people.
Imagine if there was an alternative game where Xen was not bad...

Regardless, it is still worth playing, at least until the Xen starts.

Half-Life is as classic as you can get The game starts slow, with ride to the work through the Black Mesa facility, where we play as Gordon Freeman and just continue our work as theoretical physics scientist as usual, but in our procedure, we accidentally creates an apocalypse scenario, which we will witness the fallout off it. The combat loop is tight and inherintly fast paced with methodology of "Run, Think, Shoot and Live" through encounter to encounter. Fighting against aliens and against soldiers is exhilarating; two different factions with two different strategies that you need to approach accordingly. The pacing of the campain, or at least the overworld section, is one of the best made. Escaping the failing facility through it's different sectors, finding survivors and discovering more and more about the facility we worked with. Activating last resort prevention of alien invasion and surviving the warzone to get to the Lambda facility is some of the best sections of the game. Some of the best shooting campaings next to Half Life 2, Doom Eternal and Titanfall 2 and would have been perfect if not for the Xen chapters. Xen feels like an afterthought in otherwise easiest 10/10 shooting experience possible I could give. Confusing layout, pacing halts to the snail's pace - especially in Interlopers chapter, complete lack of any resources to survive anything except from some random dead scientists' stash, drab color scheme reminding me of various color of vomit and textures of vein holes, which might have awakened Trypophobia in some of people. Imagine if there was an alternative game where Xen was not bad... Regardless, it is still worth playing, at least until the Xen starts.