Status minercreep Apr 12, 2024
Great expansion, unique weapon and characters. Adrian Shephard is cool.
Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999)
Standalone Expansion/DLC of Half-Life
Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows)
3.86 from 1023 ratings
4775 members have it in their collection · 28 playing now · 2487 backlogged · 92 wish listed
How long? Main story 6h · with extras 7h · 100% 8h (from 37 logged playthroughs)
Opposing Force returns to the same setting as Half-Life, but instead portrays the events from the perspective of a U.S. Marine, one of the enemy characters in the original game. The player character, Adrian Shephard, is sent in to neutralize the Black Mesa Research Facility after a scientific mishap causes it to be invaded by aliens, but quickly finds that …
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Opposing Force returns to the same setting as Half-Life, but instead portrays the events from the perspective of a U.S. Marine, one of the enemy characters in the original game. The player character, Adrian Shephard, is sent in to neutralize the Black Mesa Research Facility after a scientific mishap causes it to be invaded by aliens, but quickly finds that the Marines are outnumbered and slowly being beaten back by a second alien race and black operations units.
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Details
- Developers
- Gearbox Software
- Publishers
- Sierra Entertainment, Valve
- Genres
- Platform, Puzzle, Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction, Thriller, Warfare
- Franchises
- Half-Life
- Series
- Half-Life
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Nov 10, 1999 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Nov 15, 1999 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Jul 31, 2013 (Worldwide) Linux, Mac
Related
Bundled in
- Half-Life: Generation (Mar 2002) · PC
- Half-Life 1 Anthology (Sep 2005) · PC
- Valve Complete Pack (Apr 2011) · LIN, MAC, PC, PS3, X360
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Rating distribution
5 stars
236
4 stars
455
3 stars
284
2 stars
44
1 star
4
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status Chovus Sep 11, 2020
Beat on Hard. This expansion was much better than Blue Shift, and in fact better than the base campaign. It was even more action packed than Blue Shift and the platforming/puzzles not as annoying as Half Life. I liked the new weapons and enemies. Except for the pipe wrench and knife. Why have both? Just makes it more of a …
Read moreBeat on Hard. This expansion was much better than Blue Shift, and in fact better than the base campaign. It was even more action packed than Blue Shift and the platforming/puzzles not as annoying as Half Life. I liked the new weapons and enemies. Except for the pipe wrench and knife. Why have both? Just makes it more of a pain in the ass to use the weapon swap system. The knife is better but I am not going to press the button an extra time to switch to it. The m249 and sniper rifle were excellent weapons and I found the combat situations too difficult to rely much on the weak smg. I only used the teleport gun once to kill one of those fish monsters; otherwise I used it to go into the other dimension for goodies, especially healing. The spore grenade launcher was awesome, and I made sure to backtrack to keep farming ammo for it. The infinite ammo lightning gun was good for weak enemies and if there is cover to hide behind for recharge. I even used it to shoot down the attack chopper boss. I do wish there were some unique special effects for the new weapons, like if the lightning gun had alternate fire to stun instead of damage, allowing for combos with other weapons (like the freeze gun in Duke 3D).
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