User blog:Redsox1099/Half-Life: Uplink/Half-Life: Day One Review

I admit it now, I am becoming obsessed with the Half-Life universe. Was it because of Portal 2? That demo of Half-Life 2 on Steam? All the rage about Episode 3 online? Perhaps all 3. I was becoming so obsessed, that I had to find a new demo about anything Half-Life related. Well, I was over my godfather's house yesterday, and I found an Episode 2 demo off of his Xbox, so I played it. IT SUCKED. All I got to fight were two Headcrab Zombies, and a headcrab that injected neurotoxin inside me. So, I then walked off to his computer in retreat. I was about to come to chat in boredom, when I found that Sierra and Valve didn't release just one demo for the original game, BUT TWO! These demos are Half-Life: Uplink and Half-Life: Day One. Now, I managed to download these demos onto my flash drive, so I could play them anywhere, thanks to the folks at PC Magazine and Game Front, but I couldn't play them until I played them in capatability mode for Windows 98/Windows Me. The following two sections will explain about the content in these demos. I hope you enjoy my review! :)

Half-Life Uplink
To be fair, this was the easiest of the two to get, since Serria did release it online, and can be downloaded from PC Mag, and from links provided by IGN, but doesn't really matter either way. In this demo, you play as Gordon Freeman in a quick mission exclusive to the demo, where he has to send an uplink through a sattelite. Easy right? WRONG. In order to get to the sattelite, you have to fight through an army of aliens from Xen, and Marines to do your job. Overall, this was a neat little demo, and is worth playing. The only problems I had with this is that my copy crashed while trying to destroy a vending machine to get somewhere, and that we will never know the real ending to this demo. (Link: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,6813-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html)

Half-Life: Day One
Review comming soon....