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Is it still worth playing?
Valve's 1998 first person shooter for Windows. You play Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist, after an experiment at the Black Mesa Research Facility leaves it overrun by aliens. It mixes combat, exploration and environmental puzzles, and is organised into chapters instead of conventional levels, with few loading pauses. The story is told through scripted events in the world rather than cutscenes, so you never lose control. There are few conventional boss battles, and large enemies are usually beaten by using the environment. The soldiers who appear after the aliens work as a group, try pincer movements and throw grenades at you in cover. The story told without cutscenes keeps it fresh to play now, and its soldiers still change how a gunfight plays.
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