I worry that every bombastic shooter I play will erode my ability to return to the classics, but missing depth of field, HDR or physics doesn't diminish Half-Life's charms at all. The Dreamcast version of Half-Life is great - it looks better than the original PC version and its the only way console owners can enjoy Half-Life: Blue. It still holds up, which is pretty incredible for an action game designed in the '90s.

While it's not widly different, it still holds value if you're curious, or if you have plans to replay one of the finest games on the PC. This Inception-like port of a port is Half-Life as you know it, but with a few minor (Gordon looks more like a Mythbuster's presenter on the Dreamcast) and major tweaks: a cut map is the most obvious of the large changes. As is the way of these things, the code found it's way onto The Google and now someone's ported it to the PC. I say preview, the damn thing was nearly complete and I played a tonne of it on that bizarre controller.

But while I was there I happened across a preview disc with Half-Life on it. I won't bore you with the details of my quick departure: just imagine the most dramatic escape scene you can, then double it. Find Half-Life on Game Trivia Though this version was canned, a beta build eventually leaked onto the internet, showing both Half-Life and its Blue Shift expansion (the latter of which was originally developed as a Dreamcast-exclusive mission) are playable. Way back in the year 2000 I had a very brief stint on Dreamcast magazine, DC-UK.

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