Why I buy this one ?
- 4 exciting tiles in 1 great action-adventure compilation
- Survive killer aliens in Half-Life's plot-driven, complex world
- Explore restricted areas of mysterious government facility in Blue Shift
- Opposing Force offers new arsenal of weapons and 12+ multiplayer maps
- Team-based multiplayer game, Team Fortress Classic

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"Great Games--AVOID STEAM.", these are the games you remember. except for STEAM. with STEAM, you are only buying access to a game for as long as STEAM exists, however long that is. more, should you ever use your credit card to "chargeback" anything you've purchased via STEAM, your STEAM account will be disabled over this and you will lose access to everything you have already spent money on. why would you chargeback? because STEAM didn't give you a refund. because STEAM DOES NOT OFFER REFUNDS ON ANYTHING EVER. they could, of course--and it would be fair to both parties since the software is only playable over their system making pirating impossible. this is simply their arbitrary choice. which they do not make obvious. it's buried in section 4 of their subscription agreement. naturally, you should always first check out refund policies prior to buying anything anywhere. but the reason for this review is to warn you that if you are going to purchase this game, or these games, or anything, avoid STEAM. it just doesn't make sense to buy anything from a non-refundable system that doesn't have any guarantee of being playable in the future. if you are going to buy it anywhere, buy it from somewhere like here at AMAZON that at least will give you a partial refund on open software (that might legitimately be more than your rig could handle, for example, or might be badly flawed as does happen) or even a full refund on unopened software returned within 30 days (should you have gotten the wrong gift or if you have second thoughts for whatever reason)--"unopened" being a status STEAM does not possess. no, STEAM is buyer beware.

"A Classic!!", I played this game (Team Fortress Classic) alot a long time ago, and lost it. So I decided to buy it again. One of the best purchases ever. It's still a lot better than TF2.

"Great Collection!", Since the debut of this videogame I was testing the Demo version (Opposing Force), now getting all the versions, I really have to recommend you to buy it. It's really great!

"Just the best", I honestly believe that this is the best game ever created, even thou half-life 2 is out I prefer to play this.

"Poor version of a great game", This Half-Life Anthology is hard to judge. There are a bunch of problems with the game, which due to my lack of experience with the series, I don't know whether to pin on Half-Life the game or this particular Anthology version.

I'm a little perplexed by all the overwhelmingly positive reviews of the original Half-Life. I see "great story," "revolutionary," "intense action," and I can't really say I agree. While the beginning and end of the game are unusually dramatic for an action game, there is essentially no storyline in between the bookends. Every level is a series of trials to enter another doorway, to talk to another NPC, who will direct you to another doorway. In essence, the plotine of the game mirrored every other action game I've played. I grew pretty tired of the repetitive nature of the quest.

Half-Life's saving grace is the action, which is nearly always white-knuckled excitement, but yet not always fun. Valve did a great job with enemy placement and creative combinations of repetitive environmental objects. The marine AI is amazing, and still puts many modern shooters to shame. Unfortunately Valve had no qualms over using cheap instant-death traps to inflate the difficulty level. Nearly every scenario includes one or two improbable enemy placements, infinite enemy respawn points, or unpredictable roof collapses, necessitating quicksaves between every encounter. I really don't appreciate that kind of level design.

The weapons look and sound intense, and are easily the best visual feature of the game. Charcter models, particularly enemies, are well detailed and move fluidly. The rest of the game is hideous. Even giving it a ten-year grade cushion, the graphics of Half-Life's environments are ugly to the point of hampering gameplay. Critical buttons and switches are often obscured by the muddy low-res detail of consoles and panels. On more than one occasion, I thought a critical door switch was an eye chart or a Dominos pizza box tossed against the wall.

While weapons aiming is very accurate, there's not much more about the game's movement engine I can compliment. Protagonist Gordon Freeman moves too quickly at the default rate, and slides too much when attempting to stop. Even by the game's end, i couldn't get comfortable moving him on tricky surfaces or sneaking up on enemies. And the thankfully infrequent platforming parts of the game are brutal. Even climbing and descending a simple ladder was a continual excercise in frustration for me. Basically, I enjoyed shooting stuff but not moving my clumsy oaf of a character.

Most disturbing to me were the number of glitches I encountered playing Half-Life. Weapon animations would cut out, or doors refuse to respond to my prompt so often that I began to suspect something wrong with the code in this Anthology version. And I experience scripted sequence failures on at least four or five occasions that halted my progress. Without cheat codes, I couldn't have finished the game.

So, I can easily see why people went nuts over the original Half-Life when first introduced. Perhaps it was the stellar multiplayer mode that made so many people overlook the weakness of the singleplayer storyline. Unfortunately, the above problems along with the intrusive and annoying Steam service lead me to belive that this Anthology is simply not the preferable version of Half-Life to be played.

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"Dvd at last", I'm glad that it's all on one dvd. it's a pain to have six CD's for four games. It's to bad they didn't include the source version.

"Steam do not buy", This version has steam, If you buy it in only a few years steam will be gone and your game is toast. SINCE it has to connect to the internet to make sure your the only copy using that code. You can only play a few offline games befour it askes you to connect. BUT it has to connect at least once to get the real cd key. The real key is stored at steam. You do not own this game when you buy it. Your just renting it. Alot of companys have done this in the past and when they go out of busniss you just have another coster. DO NOT BUY there are version of this game that have no steam! Im so stupid for buying this copy. Half life 2 is the same. Buy that on xbox and you will not have to deal with steam.

"Love it", Ok so first off I would like to talk about steam. Most people complain about how it sucks and they dont like using it. I think it is great because it comes with a messanger and it saves the game to your hard drive so you don't even need a cd.It has never screwed me once, exept when a giant storm hit the steam hq and crashed their severs but then you can just go to offline mode. Also people complaine how bad it works for them because of dial up i used to have it and the only thing was a 45 second log on time.
Ok back to the game. Let me emphasize this, THE GAME WAS MADE IN 1998 what do you expect a perfect game with awsome gears of war graphics. This game has so much replay value and is so fun just buy it the visuals may not be the best but the box includes 4 or 5 games so about 4 or 5 dollars per game. All the games are great.

"Definately worth it", I've seen a few reviews that talk about how outdated the game is and honestly they are right. But what can you expect from a game that's almost 10 years old? The graphics and sound are obviously lacking in comparison to today's standards but I'm one of those guys who judge games based on gameplay and not raw horsepower. And Half Life: Anthology has plenty of gameplay to go around.

I want to address Steam first. I do not like Steam at all. I think it's a poor way to package a sell a product to consumers. Now I do know why Valve is so sensitive about piracy and all. But there's gotta be a better way to prevent it than this. Steam is just a shear annoyance in my opinion. Now with that said though I haven't had any problem running any of my games with Steam. But I do know for a fact that if you have anything less than a DSL connection you should not getting any game that requires Steam. When I bought HL2: EP1 it took me several hours to download the program which is a far cry from just installing directly from a CD. But if I had a choice I'd do away with Steam and find an alternative because Valve is really turning away a chunk of their market by this approach.

Now with that outta the way lets talk about the game. Now as I've already stated, as well as many others here, Half Life is a outdated game in terms of graphics and sound quality. But that definately does not take away from the action and intensity that this provides you. The battles are fierce and challenging and the AI is not too shabby either. And I've jumped several times when a head crab has lunged toward the screen. The storyline is interesting also. I think I'd prefer some cutscences or narration to help flesh it out a bit more but its not bad. But take my advice, talk to the NPCs when you can. They do help direct the story a bit and can give you some insight as well. And the jumping puzzles. Well again, many people hate them. But from an old console gamer as myself they're not as bad as some of the puzzles I've seen. They take some patience, timing, and maybe a little luck as well. But they're no where as difficult as some people make them sound. But I guess that's just my opinion.

I haven't played Opposing Force or Blue Shift yet, but basing how I enjoyed HL I think that they'll be equally as fulfilling. Again, the gameplay is great, the graphics are not. So if you're into hi-def video and sound then you're gonna be sorely disappointed. But if you're like me and enjoy a solid feeling game then you can't go wrong here.



"MUST HAVE INTERNET ACCESS !!!!!", Ok so i bought this game because i love half life. The only problem is you must first have internet acess to even install it it's some bullshi*!! scheme that valve and steam have come up with. you have to register your product with steam and they will issue you a lisensn. like the other guy said what happens if steam goes out of business and i loose my cd key are how are they going to give me a new one just a thought avoid this product and get the orignials where you don't have to register online.