10 Video Game Series Netflix Must Adapt
3. Half-Life
Every now and then, a video game is released that not only establishes itself as a game of the year contender but also redefines the genre in which it is set. One of the best examples of this is Half-Life, which is generally considered to be one of the most influential first person shooters of all time.
The game follows the story of theoretical physicist Dr. Gordon Freeman, a glasses wearing Walter White lookalike who finds himself forced to break the shackles of his scientist life style and become the hero after a teleportation experiment goes awry at the Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico, USA – opening a portal between Earth and a dimension call Xen, which is home to a number of hostile alien creatures.
Following the experiment, Freeman attempts to make his way to the surface – saving fellow scientists along the way – while fighting the Xen aliens at the same time as a military special ops team – who have been sent to eliminate all survivors. After the events of the first game, Freeman awakens to discover that the world has been invaded by a multidimensional alien race called the Combine, whose attention is drawn to Earth after the Black Mesa incident.