Half-Life (Video Game 1998)

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller  -   19 November 1998 (USA)
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You play a scientist who must make his way through a ruined underground scientific complex infested with danger.

Director:

Randall Pichford

Writers:

Marc Laidlaw, Matthew Armstrong

Stars:

Michael Shapiro, Harry S. Robins and Kathy Levin
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Cast

Credited cast:
Michael Shapiro Michael Shapiro ...
Security Guard Barney Calhoun / G-Man / Nihilanth / HECU soldiers / Security Guards / Scientists (voice) (as Mike Shapiro)
Harry S. Robins Harry S. Robins ...
Smithers / Eli Vance / Scientists / HECU soldiers (voice)
Kathy Levin Kathy Levin ...
HEV Suit / Gina Cross / Black Mesa Transit System announcer (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lani Minella ...
Gina, Collette (PS2 Version) (voice)
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Storyline

A mysterious alien artifact has been recovered and brought to a top-secret research facility in the Black Mesa. When newcomer Dr. Gordon Freeman is assigned to physically test the artifact, things go very wrong when the artifact opens a destructive and unstable portal to Xen, a planet in a different dimension. Gordon blacks out, and awakes in a now crippled and ruined research facility. When Freeman and the survivors of this ordeal discover the portal has allowed its inhabitants-deadly alien creatures-to enter the facility, they realize that they must call the government for help. The government, however, already has plans to contain this incident by silencing the witnesses. Written by Kerwin Tsang <kertsang@yahoo.com>  

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Plot Keywords:

Alien | Scientist | Experiment | Government | Infestation  | See more »

Taglines:

Run, Think, Shoot, Live.

Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Trivia

The Black Mesa PA system is composed of single words, instead of entire lines of dialogue. This allows dynamic creation of PA messages by level designers. Most of these single words are not used in the game proper, but were created so that independent level designers could make realistic sounding PA messages for their levels, instead of relying on default ones. See more »

Quotes

Scientist: Do you think we should appeal to the alien authorities?
Scientist: Absolutely not!
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Connections

Referenced in Timesplitters: Future Perfect (2005) See more »