Ofcourse I too consider still that Half-Life 1 is the near perfect (if not the most perfect) FPS game of all time.. because of so many things that it bought to the world of FPS!
Before playing Half-Life we've only seen such stories in Movies


And I think playing HL1 made everybody as if they are in a movie.. the feeling was amazing!

The people who develop the series must be really talented and creative bunch.. every time they publish a Half-Life version they bring in totally different things into the table!
Hey.. Blue Shift was a bit too short

but the thing is the guard/player Barney Calhoun actually do all this drama in the Black Mesa facility concurrently to Gordon Freeman

In fact when playing Blue Shift at one moment you will see the guards dragging unconscious Freeman (which is a part of the 1st Half-Life

) NICE THINKING HA?