Half-Life: Opposing Force Unveiled

Date: May 13th

Half-Life: Opposing Force is the official add-on for Half-Life, the PC CD-ROM named "Game of the Year" by more than 30 publications, including Game Over Online Magazine. In Opposing Force, players return to the Black Mesa Research Facility to engage in an entirely new episode of single player action and are simultaneously offered a massive collection of new multiplayer content. Remember the soldiers who gave you so much trouble before? Now you are one of them, and life is not so easy as part of the Opposing Force.

As a soldier sent in to eliminate Gordon Freeman, you are separated from your base unit and discover a new alien race amidst the chaos. It's soon revealed that these highly advanced alien life forms, known only as Race X, descended upon Earth to pillage the planet from the Black Mesa facility when Gordon Freeman transported to the border world of Xen. Although you were originally sent into Black Mesa to silence Freeman and his fellow scientists in the facility, you now find yourself stranded and confused, battling Race X and a variety of other foes in an effort to save your own life.

But as a military specialist, you are not unarmed. You'll gather a custom arsenal of new military firearms, experimental weapons and deadly alien devices. And, as you explore further areas of Black Mesa, you will encounter a new variety of human characters to interact with, on both friendly and unfriendly terms. In addition to the extensive new single player experience, Opposing Force will also contain a robust collection of fresh multiplayer content. These include new weapons, player characters and several new multiplayer maps designed at Gearbox Software as well as levels created by legends of the Dallas first person shooter community. Opposing Force is being developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra Studios. This official game extension is due to arrive in retail stores everywhere this October.