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Valve tinkered with Half-Life over the years, offering add-on games that shifted the viewerвЂ™s perspective (in Blue Shift, you played as a security guard watching the crisis unfold in Opposing Force, you jumped into the skin of one of the original gameвЂ™s villains). The game was in every way a revolution, and remains a wonderfully scary, inventive work almost 20 years after its release. Valve embraced the limitation of the first-person perspective (players can only see through GordonвЂ™s eyes) by having a huge story unfold around him in tiny bits and pieces: Players could put together what was happening if they paid attention to overheard bits of dialogue, or watched other characters interact from afar. Half-Life began with the playerвЂ™s avatar, the scientist Gordon Freeman, ambling through a massive underground lab on a normal workday before a terrible accident flooded it with aliens. Previous first-person shooters like Doom and Quake embodied simplicity: Walk into room, kill monsters with weapons, rinse, and repeat.

#HALF LIFE 2 EPISODE 3 DIGITALZONE PC#

Why do people still care so much? The original Half-Life, released for the PC in 1998, remains a definitive work in вЂњfirst-personвЂќ gaming, a sci-fi thriller that set new standards for storytelling techniques and immersive world-building in a genre that had always boiled down to guns and blood. вЂњI donвЂ™t know this man at all,вЂќ he joked in March 2013, when the British host Jonathan Ross begged him for further news of a sequel. вЂњI got nothing to say about Half-Life,вЂќ he said in August 2011. but yes, of course weвЂ™re doing Episode Three,вЂќ was the line in September 2009. вЂњWe know how the trilogy ends and thereвЂ™s a bunch of loose ends and narrative arcs that need to come to a conclusion in Episode Three,вЂќ he said in August 2007. The longer things go on, the more impossible everyoneвЂ™s expectations become-if a new Half-Life were ever released, the hype would be unimaginably hard to match, and yet ValveвЂ™s initial promise has only added to the franchiseвЂ™s mystique.ДЇans online вЂњcelebratedвЂќ the 10-year anniversary by cutting together a video of ValveвЂ™s co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell talking about his companyвЂ™s plans for a Half-Life sequel over the years. But Half-Life 2 sequels ended with Episode Two, and over the years, ValveвЂ™s party line on a new installment went from a firm commitment to vague promises to tight-lipped refusals to say anything at all. Since that announcement, Valve has released a dozen games, including the acclaimed Portal and Portal 2 and multiplayer smash hits like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. The Loss at the Heart of Guy FieriвЂ™s Entertainment Empire Megan Garber

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