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- Half-Life won more than 51 Game of the Year awards.
- Half-Life 2 won over 35 Game of the Year awards for 2004.
- Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are the 2 most played online games that aren't MMOs.
- Half-Life is the best-selling first-person shooter of all time.
- Half-Life and Half-Life 2 were each named 'Best Game of All Time'.
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Half-Life is a first-person shooter video game launched in 1998. It was the debut production of Valve Software and launched the company into video game stardom. The game has since turned into a franchise producing Half-Life 2 and the Counter-Strike games – which are based on modified versions of the Half-Life games. The series has been critically acclaimed for advancing first person shooter graphics, game-play, artificial intelligence, and physics. Unlike other first person shooters the game-play is continuous except for load times. The player must navigate scripted sequences while constantly in control of the protagonist Dr. Gordon Freeman. Valve has encouraged independent game designers to make numerous Half-Life mods, including... Read more
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