Half-Life
Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The…
Half-Life is an adventure developed by Valve, released 19 November 1998 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 26 cheat codes for it.
What Half-Life is
Half-Life is an adventure game developed by Valve and released in 1998. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GoldSrc. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dr. Gordon Freeman arrives late for work at 8:47 am in the Black Mesa Research Facility, using the advanced Black Mesa tram system that leads through the facility. He arrives at the Anomalous Materials Lab, his work place, and he is informed by the security officer that the scientists have a special experiment today, so he goes to the locker room and puts on the hazard suit. He goes to the lab's lower levels, and arrives at the Anti-Mass Chamber, where he is instructed that the specimen to be used that day is the rarest and also the most unstable specimen. He is tasked with pushing the specimen into the scanning beam of the Anti-Mass Spectrometer for analysis. However as soon as he pushes…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Half-Life series
Half-Life is the first of 24 entries we hold in the Half-Life series. The next entry was Half-Life: Uplink in 1999. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Half-Life: Alyx at 93.
How it was received
Half-Life holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 2,947 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 18.7 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Half-Life launched on 19 November 1998, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Thief: The Dark Project and The House of the Dead 2. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Thief: The Dark Project, The House of the Dead 2.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 26 cheat entries for Half-Life — 26 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Half-Life cheat codes
Enable cheats first
Required before any other cheat command is accepted.
Launch with -console, press ` to open the console, then type the command.
God Mode
Invincibility
Start the game with hl.exe -console, open the console during play, type sv_cheats 1, then the command and press Enter
Cheats disable achievements
All Weapons And Ammo
Gives all weapons with full ammo; type it again to refill ammo and repair armor
Start the game with hl.exe -console, open the console during play, type sv_cheats 1, then the command and press Enter
Cheats disable achievements
No clipping
Walk through walls.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
Dlc
Expansions
Remakes
Remasters
Quick answers
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