![]() HL:S will take up about 760MB on your hard drive, compared to a little under 400 for good ole' vanilla Half-Life. You can also get it with the retail boxed Collector's Edition currently priced at $80 USD, which comes with a T-shirt, size XL, a mini Prima strategy guide with "information on character backgrounds, the making of the game, and more than 100 pieces of artwork," and HL2, Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life: Source on a DVD. So how do you get your grubby little gamer hands on it? Well, you can't get it separately yet, but it comes with the Silver and Gold packages available via Steam. ![]() Plus, you get that great subwoofer thump for grenades, shotguns, and other loud things. Half-Life already had some great ambient sound, and this is even more special. ![]() A truly cool new thing, though, is playing the game in 5.1 surround sound. Very aggressive, great at flushing you out with grenades and come at you from multiple angles. The AI of the Marines is still impressive after all these years. At the very least, I like being able to skip past the boring part in the beginning where you don't have weapons and have to stand around while snooty scientists screw up an experiment and let vicious aliens teleport into the heart of their top-secret military facility. ![]() I personally like Office Complex and Surface Tension. On the bright side, you can start the game from any chapter, and you'll get a serviceable arsenal when you start in the middle from scratch. There don't appear to be any improvements introduced in the Blue Shift add-on.
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