Players inhabited MIT-trained particle physicist Gordon Freeman, a role that would be reprised with Half-Life 2 in 2004. The game was a smash hit, critically acclaimed for its cohesive narrative, which took players on a journey through the bowels of the high-security research laboratory known as Black Mesa. The original Half-Life was released for PC in 1998. The announcement was made on Steam, where the team at Crowbar Collective is selling the game with the blessings of franchise creators at Valve. The game leaves early access on March 5, fully after 14 years after the team at The Crowbar Collective began the project. Black Mesa, a video game that started out as a fan-made mod of the original Half-Life, finally has a release date.
