{"id":4,"count":1,"description":"Half-Life<\/strong><\/em> is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Software<\/a>, the company's debut product and the first in the Half-Life series<\/a>. First released by Sierra Studios<\/a> on November 19, 1998, the game was also released for the PlayStation 2<\/a> on November 14, 2001.[2]<\/a> In Half-Life<\/em>, players assume the role of Dr Gordon Freeman<\/a>, a recently graduated theoretical physicist who must fight his way out of a secret underground research facility, whose research and experiments into teleportation technology have gone disastrously wrong.\r\n\r\nValve, set up by former Microsoft<\/a> employees, had difficulty finding a publisher for the game, with many believing that it was "too ambitious" a project. Sierra On-Line<\/a> eventually signed the game after expressing interest in making a 3D action game. The game had its first major public appearance at the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo<\/a>. Designed for Windows, the game uses a heavily modified version of the Quake engine called GoldSrc<\/a>.[1]<\/a>[3]<\/a>\r\n\r\nOn its release, critics hailed its overall presentation and numerous scripted sequences, and it won over 50 PC Game of the Year awards.[4]<\/a>[5]<\/a> Its gameplay influenced first-person shooters for years to come, and it has since been regarded as one of the greatest games of all time.[6]<\/a> As of November 16, 2004, Half-Life<\/em> has sold eight million copies.[7]<\/a> As of July 14, 2006, the Half-Life<\/em> franchise has sold over 20 million units.[8]<\/a> Half-Life<\/em> was followed by the 2004 sequel Half-Life 2<\/a><\/em>, which also received critical acclaim. Half-Life<\/em>, its cultural impact, community mods and sequels has spawned a large fanbase and cult following, especially in PC gaming.\r\n","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/category\/games\/half-life-1\/","name":"Half-Life","slug":"half-life-1","taxonomy":"category","parent":56,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/56"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}