We've been here before - for the last 17 years, ever since Half-Life: Episode Two concluded, rumors, speculation, and hope for Half-Life 3 have swirled like the dark energy vortex about the Citadel. Recently, we've seen a few teases, a few hints, that suggest something, maybe, might be on the way. Even if it doesn't arrive imminently, I'm still confident Valve will make Half-Life 3, or at least another Half-Life game, eventually. With that in mind, it feels like time to replay and re-appreciate the original and the first sequel. We've looked at the data - a lot of people who have the Half-Life series in their Steam libraries haven't ever actually booted the games up. But if you got Half-Life, HL2, the Episodes, or any of the expansions in a bundle and you've left them alone, now is the time to take them down from the shelf. There are still, all these years later, some of the most influential FPS games of all time.
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