Playing as Gordon Freeman, you are a “person of Interest” and the Combine want you.
Your objective, as stated on the screen, is to escape City 17.
Can you do it? The Combine will do their best to stop you.
As the game begins, Shephard is part of the clean-up operation. After his transport aircraft is taken down by an Alien Aircraft and he is cut off from the rest of his unit, the “clean-up” mission is abandoned and Shephard joins forces with the scattered survivors seeking escape.
Before the first chapter of Half-Life: Opposing Force, a short introduction is shown.
As Adrian Shephard and his fellow HECU comrades are approaching the LZ (Landing Zone 117) at the Black Mesa Research Facility, his plane (codenamed Goose 7) is shot down by alien aircraft, along with several other V-22 Ospreys (the first one is codenamed Goose 3).
The rest of the opening sequence consists of Shephard continually losing and regaining consciousness, seeing conflict between the Xen aliens and the Marines who survived the crash.
18th August 2012 14 Comments
This competition received two entries. I admit, I was hoping for more, but maybe next time.
Below are the two entries.
You can either save to your computer with a right click, or if you have a compatible browser just left click and they will play.
18th August 2012 13 Comments
You are a captured citizen who wakes up in a pod, stranded in unknown snowy surroundings, just after you were lost from a “combine-dropship-pod-container
You discover a secret underground facility that is infested by headcrab-zombies.
Soon you discover that you are not alone in the facility: A group of mad and dangerous humans with weapons are inhabiting the facility too.
Total Downloads: 7,02217th August 2012
51 Comments
and 17 recommendations with no significant bias
The training chapter of Opposing Force. Adrian Shephard is bumped to the top of the Advanced Training list.
Shephard and his comrades are trained by Dwight T. Barnes, Marine Drill Instructor, in Santego Military Base, Arizona.
He works his way through the training exercises overlooked by Drill Instructor Sharpe until he is ready for the field.
16th August 2012 19 Comments
ForestVille is the fourth in the 6×10 Mapping Competition.
As the name suggests, the theme was to create a map within a forest.
There were 6 entries, ranging from “okay” to “GREAT!”
Total Downloads: 6,09715th August 2012
48 Comments
and 17 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"
Back in April of this year, I wrote an article called 7 Things I wish Steam would allow me to do. Well, number 7, or part of number 7 is now available and since I only recently found out about it, I thought you might have missed it too.
It’s a feature called Custom Steam Gridview Icons and it allows you to add or replace the images you see for ANY game or application you have added to your library.
14th August 2012 10 Comments
The Half-Life: Opposing Force soundtrack was composed by Chris Jensen. It was reused for the Half-Life: Blue Shift soundtrack. The Half-Life soundtrack by Kelly Bailey replaces the original one in the Steam releases of Opposing Force and Blue Shift.
However, it’s easy to get the original back. Below is a file that contains all the music, along with isntructions of how to use it.
Here is part of the text from the readme_opfor.txt.
12th August 2012 15 Comments
I saw this question on Reddit, which by the way has some very interesting discussions about Half-Life, and thought I would repeat it here.
The question is whether it is important to play the Half-Life games in order.
7th August 2012 14 Comments
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Total Downloads: 3,83419th August 2012
32 Comments and 25 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!