It’s still the same game as before, but we are talking about a 22-year old shooter, so don’t expect a modern experience if you play it that way. The original game is available on the Steam platform, which Valve created and owns. And developer Valve (the publisher at the time was Sierra Entertainment) even added multiplayer to Half-Life, which was somehow pulled off with 56K dial-up modems. The single player game was more of an experience than just a run and gun affair. Our reviewer Todd Hargosh gave it 4.5 GiN Gems, and recognized that it would change gaming for the better. It might have been based on a modified Quake 2 engine, but the level of interactivity as well as the smoothness of the combat made it so that it was like nothing anyone had ever experienced before in gaming. When the original Half-Life came out back in 1998, it really aimed at revolutionizing the shooter genre, which was white hot at the time.
