The definitive edition of what Half Life 1 should be if it got remade in this day and age; also entirely a complete reimagining of Half Life 1, not only a remake of it.
Incredibly fun game to go through, refreshing take on an already really entertaining game with an interesting yet sort of compelling story despite how simple it is, but quite fun once you start taking in all of the environmental story-telling and radio logs around the levels, plus what the characters have to say about you and listening to the Marines as well talk about the situation. The Black Mesa facility as a whole was an engaging set of levels to go through this time around, especially with how some of them were refined, tuned, or kept as is but with some changes here and there, one of the reasons why this felt highly refreshing but also quite similar to the original, the aesthetic of the game was kept entirely similar, but refined, and the music was so good in my opinion, even though I've heard and seen some people mention that the overall vibe of the music didn't fit the game, but for me it felt quite nice, it gives it a very unique vibe that despite everything I still feel like it fits the situation and makes either the level or the encounter more cool, interesting or compelling.
Xen was incredibly astounding, as simple as that, the music was beautiful, the visuals were breathtaking, the environmental telling of the story was pretty good in parts of this entire section of levels as well, specifically in Interloper.
The selection of weapons in this game is pretty interesting since some of them had their mags cut down, the ammo capacity and all was trimmed for some of them, but they also don't feel like they are entirely useless, they do their job as weapons, and the ammo trimming feels more as a way for you to have more variety since you still do get a lot of ammo throughout the game, but having a weapon of selection this varied feels kind of useless when you spend most of the game using the same weapons since you keep getting a fuckton of ammo for it, which in this game does not feel like that at all, you get a fair amount of it in appropriate places and the game lets you have fun with what you want to mess with.
Overall a pretty beautiful and a perfect example of what a pure videogame should be like; pure gameplay, incredible music, environmental storytelling being a focus instead of cutscenes and visuals being also an important part of it as well.
Incredibly fun game to go through, refreshing take on an already really entertaining game with an interesting yet sort of compelling story despite how simple it is, but quite fun once you start taking in all of the environmental story-telling and radio logs around the levels, plus what the characters have to say about you and listening to the Marines as well talk about the situation. The Black Mesa facility as a whole was an engaging set of levels to go through this time around, especially with how some of them were refined, tuned, or kept as is but with some changes here and there, one of the reasons why this felt highly refreshing but also quite similar to the original, the aesthetic of the game was kept entirely similar, but refined, and the music was so good in my opinion, even though I've heard and seen some people mention that the overall vibe of the music didn't fit the game, but for me it felt quite nice, it gives it a very unique vibe that despite everything I still feel like it fits the situation and makes either the level or the encounter more cool, interesting or compelling.
Xen was incredibly astounding, as simple as that, the music was beautiful, the visuals were breathtaking, the environmental telling of the story was pretty good in parts of this entire section of levels as well, specifically in Interloper.
The selection of weapons in this game is pretty interesting since some of them had their mags cut down, the ammo capacity and all was trimmed for some of them, but they also don't feel like they are entirely useless, they do their job as weapons, and the ammo trimming feels more as a way for you to have more variety since you still do get a lot of ammo throughout the game, but having a weapon of selection this varied feels kind of useless when you spend most of the game using the same weapons since you keep getting a fuckton of ammo for it, which in this game does not feel like that at all, you get a fair amount of it in appropriate places and the game lets you have fun with what you want to mess with.
Overall a pretty beautiful and a perfect example of what a pure videogame should be like; pure gameplay, incredible music, environmental storytelling being a focus instead of cutscenes and visuals being also an important part of it as well.