Half-Life (video game)

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This article is about the video game. For the property of radioactive elements, see Half-life (element).

Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Valve Software and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1998, based on a very changed Quake game engine. It was first published for PCs running Microsoft Windows, and was later ported to Sony's PlayStation 2 video game console.

Half-Life, often shortened to HL, has been thought to be very great by computer game critics for its gripping in-depth storyline, which would influence the development of other first-person shooters in the years to come.

Half-Life was followed by a sequel, Half-Life 2 in 2004.