Half-Life: Decay
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| Developer(s) | Gearbox Software |
| Publisher(s) | Sierra Entertainment |
| Release date | November, 2001 (NA) |
| Genre | FPS |
| Mode(s) | Single player 2-Person Cooperative Multi-player |
| Age rating(s) | ESRB: M |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
| Media | DVD |
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Half-Life: Decay is the third and final expansion for Half-Life. Developed by Gearbox Software and released with the PS2 version of Half-Life, Decay was a cooperative campaign that put the player(s) in the roles of Dr. Gina Cross and Dr. Collette Green, two scientists who also worked at Black Mesa during the incident.
On september 23, 2008 a group of Ukraine programers succesfully ported Half life: Decay to the PC. It featured online Co-op gameplay and several other tweaks in the game that were not in the PS2 verison of the game.
[edit] Plot Decay begins with Gina Cross and Colette Green arriving at the Anomalous Materials Labs at Black Mesa and reporting to Dr. Keller, who is readying the day's analysis of an unknown specimen. Despite the objections of Dr. Rosenberg to pushing the analysis equipment beyond its design capacities, Cross and Green are assigned to assist setting up the experiment for Gordon Freeman.[8] When Freeman inserts the specimen into the scanning beam, however, it triggers a "resonance cascade", causing mass damage to the facility and teleporting alien creatures into the base. Keller and Rosenberg agree that Black Mesa cannot deal with the situation on its own, and so decide to call for military assistance.[9] Cross and Green escort Rosenberg to the surface, where he sends a distress signal to the military. However, the military are ordered not only to contain the situation, but to silence the base by killing its employees. Rosenberg, who elects to stay behind to meet with the military on arrival, is captured as Cross and Green return to Keller.
Once reunited with Keller, Cross and Green work to seal the dimensional tear to stop the invasion. After resetting key equipment to prevent a second dimensional rift, the two are tasked with preparing a satellite for launch. The satellite, which is launched by Freeman in Half-Life, is used in tandem with ground-based equipment to significantly weaken the effects of the resonance cascade.[10] Keller tasks Cross and Green with activating this set of prototype equipment, a displacement beacon, which through the satellite may be able to seal the dimensional rift. However, after activating the beacon, both characters are caught up in a "harmonic reflux", a distortion caused by the rift. Despite this, Cross and Green are able to return safely and Keller congratulates them on their success.[11] The end fate of Green and Keller is ambiguous given the destruction of Black Mesa in a nuclear explosion at the end of Opposing Force; Gina Cross' corpse is found on Xen in Opposing Force and Rosenberg escapes the facility with Barney Calhoun in Blue Shift.
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| Half-Life series |
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| Half-Life | Opposing Force | Blue Shift | Decay Half-Life 2 | Deathmatch | The Lost Coast Half-Life 2: Episode One | Episode Two | Episode Three |
| Compilations |
| The Orange Box |
| Related Games |
| Portal | Team Fortress Classic | Team Fortress 2 |
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| Half-Life Fact File |
