Half Life 2 is Free on Steam
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So you got me curious, and I'm now looking at what the Steam store offers for free for Half-Life. But the thing is that I never played either the first or the second one, so I'm not sure what I should be getting. If I wanted to properly experience this series, which ones should I download, or in which order should I play them? The options are:
"Half-Life: Caged", "Half-Life: Restored", "Half-Life: Before", "Half-Life - The Freeman Chronicles"
At least, for Half-Life 2, it's more straightforward. The only options I can see are: "Half-Life 2: Downfall", and "Half-Life 2: Update". All the rest of the options seem to be soundtracks, demos or plungers. But the first one's options just make it confusing.
Edit: Oh. Seems that all of those were just "partial matches" and there was an "exact match" above that with the actual game. But that still confuses me a bit. Does it mean that everything I mentioned above are DLCs or patches?
Mods, and a fan video (there was a time were steam were seeming to look into hosting movies videos, you can find some of that on the store as a legacy stuff i guess).
There is only the orginal half life series
Which started with the Half life, then come the stand alone expansions Blue Shift and Opposing Force and then Half life 2 with it's stand alone expansions Episode one and two.
You got a remake of Half life called Black Mesa not made by valve.
You can play Half life 2 without knowing the first one, although some refs will go missed, but nothing of grand importance.
HL2: Update is a sort of remaster by a fan. It has updated lighting and some bug fixes as I recall. I played it a long time ago, its the original game just with improvements to the visuals.