Half-Life: Uplink
Half-Life: Uplink is a demo version of Valve's 1998 first-person shooter computer game Half-Life. Uplink features many of the common enemies, characters, and weapons from the full game, but unlike the first…
Half-Life: Uplink is a shooter developed by Valve, released 12 February 1999 on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Half-Life: Uplink is
Half-Life: Uplink is a shooter game developed by Valve and released in 1999. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GoldSrc.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Half-Life: Uplink is a demo version of Valve's 1998 first-person shooter computer game Half-Life. Uplink features many of the common enemies, characters, and weapons from the full game, but unlike the first Half-Life demo and the Half-Life 2 demo, the location and scenario in this demonstration do not appear in Half-Life. The Uplink chapters were cut during Half-Life's development phase and roughly fit in prior to or during the Lambda Core chapter; they were, however, strongly revised for the demo release. Uplink also includes the same Hazard Course from the full release of Half-Life. It was also included on "Official PlayStation Magazine Disc 57" as a bonus unlock if you entered a cheat…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Half-Life series
Half-Life: Uplink is the second of 24 entries we hold in the Half-Life series. The next entry was Half-Life: Opposing Force in 1999.
What it launched against
Half-Life: Uplink launched on 12 February 1999, within three weeks of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill and Syphon Filter.
Released around the same time: Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill, Syphon Filter.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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