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Half-Life: Opposing Force

TitleHalf-Life: Opposing Force
First release1999
DeveloperGearbox Software
PublisherSierra Entertainment
PlatformPC (Windows)
Genresfirst-person shooter, science fiction video game
Players1 player
Co-opNo
ESRB ratingM Mature 17+
Releases
PC (Windows): 1999-11-01 (NTSC)
Wikidata IDQ693937

Opposing Force returns to the same setting as Half-Life, but instead portrays the events from the perspective of a U.S. Marine, one of the enemy characters in the original game. The player character, Adrian Shephard, is sent in to neutralize the Black Mesa Research Facility after a scientific mishap causes it to be invaded by aliens, but quickly finds that the Marines are outnumbered and slowly being beaten back by a second alien race and black operations units.

Description: TheGamesDB (community-contributed, no licence stated; internal use only) Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from TheGamesDB. Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.
Sources
Wikidata (Q693937) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0
TheGamesDB (6459) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
Image credits
Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC release) · © Sierra Entertainment · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (4): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Sierra Entertainment · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Logo: Gearbox Software, Valve Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“Half-Life Opposing Force Logo.png”)
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