Half-Life: Opposing Force

Half-Life: Opposing Force

Steam Deck Playable

Gearbox Software · FPS · Nov 1, 1999

Yes, worth buying.

At $4.99. It has been as low as $0.99.

95%
Overwhelmingly Positive
29k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 72 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 40 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 7 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Difficulty: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 11 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 29k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise20% are divided30% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
first half is fun and cool that it links with the first games story but then the last 50% of the game is annoying and unfun garbage where the final boss even crashes your game due to too many entities, just ass, 50 million enemies in small arenas artificial difficulty dark souls 2 scholar of the first sin style. not to mention the numerous softlocks on random elevators that get the character stuck or sliding vent transition that got me stuck as well at the beginning of a new chapter and i had to noclip to get through it, lovely stuff, just like hunt down the freeman.
72 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The ability to lead small squads of soldiers — including medics and engineers — adds a fresh layer to combat, and new mechanics like rope climbing and radios help expand gameplay without overcomplicating it.
40 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
New cool alien weapons, ''special forces feeling'' and from 1999. perspective great graphics with amazing skeleton animations where in cut scenes player is not ''cut'' from action, he actually play while scene happen around and can even harm player during the sequence.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
The addition to the lore that this game offered was also very welcoming, it was a lenghty & solid expansion that I would play it all over again with different mods, the multiplayer mode is also worth checking out for all of this and the CTF mode.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Sound and Audio are kinda weird while the soundtrack does actually have some fun and action packed moments, the Audio sounds a bit abrasive but that can be due to the time period that the game was made in.
6 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters72 reviews
Gameplay40 reviews
Graphics7 reviews
Multiplayer6 reviews
Audio6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Combat125 reviews
92%
Performance7 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend
Difficulty19 reviews
79%
Bugs14 reviews
93%
Crashes11 reviews
91%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

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