Description : Think Smart to Survive. Great storytelling in the tradition of Stephen King intense action and advanced technology create a frighteningly realistic world where players need to think smart to survive.

Deep in the bowels of a decommissioned missile base turned research facility, a top secret project is underway. You are a research associate with limited security clearance and no real idea of just how dangerous your job has become…until the morning you are sent alone to analyze a strange crystalline specimen.

A routine analysis, they tell you, until something goes wrong… How much will you risk to save the Earth? Half-Life combines great storytelling in the tradition of Stephen King with intense action and advanced technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players need to think smart to survive.

Throughout the game, both friends and foes behave in sophisticated and unpredictable ways, a result of Half-Life's powerful and innovative artificial intelligence.

The intensity of the game also reflects the strong storyline, created by award-winning horror novelist Marc Laidlaw. Of course there's also a variety of exciting multiplayer scenarios, and an easy-to-use interface that will have you connected to the game of your choice in just seconds.

Half-Life takes advantage of licensed technology from id Software, but adds a whole new level of proprietary technology. Just a few of our technological advancements include: Enemy AI Half-Life's monsters are also remarkably--even terrifyingly--intelligent. The proprietary AI has them running in packs, assessing threats and showing a marked distaste for suicide runs.

You'd better think as fast as they do. Rendering Technologies So you don't want to have to buy a special hardware accelerator just to get 16-bit color, colored lighting, blurring, translucency or other cool visual effects? Then don't. Half-Life has developed all these features in software so now they're an integral part of the gameplay, not just eye-candy.

Of course, if you do have Open-GL, Direct 3D or MMX hardware, things will look mind-bogglingly cool. Skeletal Animation System Our new animation system lets us create monsters that are more spectacularly menacing than ever before. Half-Life's monsters have the highest polygon count, and the most fluid and complex motion ever seen in an action game.