In Half-Life: Opposing Force, most human characters sit down after they are killed, including the Marines, the Black Ops soldiers, and the Drill Instructors. They produce red blood in the second violence mode. The male Black Ops assassins only use the night vision goggles-wearing head type so that the head variations with exposed eyes are never. Black Ops images. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.

• Mar 15, 2020 Dark Matter is designed to be an unofficial fourth and final Half-Life 1 expansion set in the Black Mesa Research facility during the resonance cascade incident. This time at last you play as one of the deadly Black Operator units named Kovac.
• The Black Ops are a squad of shadowy commandos sent by the US Military to contain the Black Mesa Incident of Half-Life after the HECU failed. They are more dangerous and elite than the HECU in every way, and are more-or-less modern ninjas due to their black-clad appearance, completely silent and unseeably fast movement, and martial arts training.

Reviewed By: William Edwards
VOLUNTEER GUEST REVIEWER

GAME TECH INFOComputer Platform: PC Produced by: Valve, Sierra Price Range: $30 Learning curve time: 20 min. Age level: 15+ ESRB Rating: Mature Patches / Upgrades: at Web site System Requirements: Pentium 133 24 Megs of RAM (3D Card recommended)

Genre: Action/Adventure
Christian Rating: 3 of 5
(some objectionable elements)
Gameplay: 5 of 5
(excellent)
Violence: 2 of 5
(heavy)
Adult Content: 3 of 5
(mild)

'Half-Life' was released in 1998 to national acclaim. It won “Game of the Year” awards from numerous gaming magazines for its blend of puzzle-solving, intense combat, and interesting storyline. While some people might object to the game's realistic combat scenes, most should find that the gorgeous graphics and engaging plot make up for its short comings.

In 'Half-Life', you take on the role of Gordon Freeman, a researcher at the Black Mesa Research Facility. When some scientists accidently open a wormhole that leads to an alien-inhabited planet, it's up to Freeman to get out of Black Mesa and return with help for his fellow scientists. To make matters more complicated, the Army has sent in members of its elite Black Ops task force to cover up the breech of human/alien contact. “Half-Life” is split nearly 50/50 between combat action and puzzle-solving. One minute you may have to find a way to turn on the electricity to a particular passage, the next you might be engaging in a shoot out with Black Ops troops.

This is where some Christians might find fault with this game. While the fighting does take place in a combat (i.e. war) like setting, you are still taking human life. The deaths of the soldiers isn't particularly gruesome, but if you use certain weapons, such as a rocket launcher, soldiers will explode, leaving a pile of muck on the floor which eventually fades away. Keep in mind that you also fight aliens in this game as well and their deaths aren't nearly as violent. The game can be commended for its combining of a great story and puzzles which really require players to plan their actions carefully.

In all, “Half-Life” does deserve the many awards it has received, though some may not like the combat action within the game.

Year of Release—1998

I own Half Life and can say clearly that this game deserves all the praise it gets. Although yes, taking lives and the mess on the floor can be found to be disturbing, there was no mention of the violence lock out that is available on almost every single FPS (First Person Shooter) out there. If the violence does disturb you, disable it and continue on with a very sanitized version of the game. Do not deny yourself the pleasure of this impressive game. My Ratings: [3/5]
—Chris, age 22

This is without a doubt the best FPS of all time, and perhaps the most revolutionary computer game to ever hit the market. The immersive graphics and storyline make you feel like you are in an action movie. It is also a great value. Buy Half-life, and you can download many mods and user-created levels for free. For those of those worried about the violence, there IS a parental lock on the game that removes the blood and violent death scenes, bringing the game down to what would be a PG-13 rating for a movie. This game is a must-have for action gaming fans. My Ratings: [3/5]
—Nicholas Marchand, age 19

Half-Life is the game of the year and rightfully so. I have played this game non-stop since the day I bought it (1998). With it's various user created modifications and dazzling gameplay and graphics, you simply cannot NOT play this game! The plot is brilliant and amazing. You are a scientist on a regular day at work when everything goes haywire. Now it's up to you to fix it. On a christian standpoint, the gore level is medium. This isn't a game for 12 year olds and younger, but 13+ is fine. There are absolutely NO satanic influences except for the violence (which is to be expected in a game like this). This is an excellent game and if you don't have it on your shelf at home, the only question is, why not? My Ratings: [4/5]
—Richard J. Gauldin, age 20

'…The fantasy world makes you so powerful, it is more fun than the real world. A problem with this type of brutal and self-serving world is it's hard to withdraw yourself from it. Half-life gets a score of 55% (F+) due to the excessive blood and violence.'
—John Gocke, Al Menconi Ministries

Comments from Young People…

…Though I'm not a real fan of the genre, Half-Life breathed new life into it… life that had left after Doom2 and Goldeneye lost their sparkle for me… I think that the game's puzzles are all FAR too similar. Its either 'crawl through the vents to avoid some horrible accident that happened just before you arrived,' or 'turn on the electricity to open a door.' Ammo packs are few and far between, which makes fighting require a lot more thinking than in most FPS (read Doom) where you just have a BFG power pack floating in the air every few feet for no real reason at all. The plot was so-so. It was another game where the plot was GREAT in the beginning (as far as FPSes HAVE plots, that is) but dies out towards the end. In the end, they went with the OVER OVER OVER used 'Kill the big bad guy, because he's big… and we think he looks cool' approach. You've been duped into waging someone else's war on an entire alien civilization, you think taking out this big baby shaped thing is REALLY going to scare them off? The game was violent, however it had NO sex related influences in it at all (the only exception being the female assassin… quite UNLIKE Duke Nukem… My Ratings: [4/4]
—Simon, age 16

I think this game is amazing. It's not just one of those “shoot'em up” games where most of the game is about killing people. This game requires a lot of think and you also have to keep an eye on your ammo, since it is very limited. This is also a very tense game, since you never know when an alien will bust through a wall right by you or which tiny creatures you will meet up with in the air ducts. This is a very good game and when you play it, time will fly by very fast. Many people will find this game gory since you can make people explode with rocket launchers or hack them open with crowbars. My Ratings: [3/5]
—Kevin, age 15

This is a really good game. It is extremely graphic when it comes to violence, but the plot makes up for it. The plot also, if followed, really makes you hate those marines. They are bloodthirsty, evil, and just go around shooting unarmed scientists. It really sucks you in, which can be a good or bad thing depending on your perspective. There is no sex or blasphemy, just lots of blood. And thinking too, which is good. However most of the time, you are hitting small crab-like creatures with crowbars, which is certainly no sin. It's just a variation on what we do at Red Lobster. My Ratings: [3/5]
—Adam, age 13

I thought this game was the best game I have ever played in my life. The single player game of it is incredibly fun which I have beaten 4 times and still loving it and the multiplayer is INCREDIBLY fun with all of the various modifications out there that keep the game fresh and new. I have been playing this game for over 2 years now and I'm still playing it more than any of these new games that are coming out… My Ratings: [4/5]
—Daniel Jenkins, age 13

This particular game has been spending the majority of it's existance in my computer, not its case. Enough has been said of how good it is. I won't say anymore to make you salivate over this engaging game. To quell the first fears you might have on the violence issue, there is a “content control” option in the game. This eliminates blood and gore when a character is killed. There is also some mild profanity, but it is VERY scarce. The content control doesn't take the profanity out, but a password can be used by the parent so kids can't switch the content back on. Again, a very visual pleasing, mind stimulating title. Go get it. My Ratings: [3/5]
—Chris Browns, age 16

I thought that this was the best computer game that I ever played. It was fun, the graphics were great and the interaction with the game was incredible. However my parents thought differently… They made me throw it out two days after getting it. Warning to all adolescent boys: you will love this… My Ratings: [3/5]
—Stephen Armstrong, age 14

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Black Ops
Political information
Type	Assassins/Commandos group
Subclasses	Female Assassin Male Assassin
Faction	Federal government of the United States[1]
Societal information
Armament	Female: Silenced 9mm Pistol, grenades, melee Male: Submachine Gun, grenades, M-40A1 Sniper Rifle, melee Crossbow (cut) Flash Grenade (cut)
Technology
Vehicles	Osprey Heliplane (cut)
Historical information
Era(s)
Game information
Designer(s)	Chuck Jones[2] Ted Backman (female assassin)[3] Ken Birdwell (artificial intelligence)[4]
Voiced by
Entity	monster_human_assassin monster_male_assassin monster_blkop_apache monster_blkop_osprey

The Black Ops, sometimes hyphenated to Black-Ops^[5] and sometimes referred to as Black Operations,^[6] are a commando group of trained government assassins^[1] briefly seen in Half-Life and later expanded upon and featured in Half-Life: Opposing Force. Soon after the HECU, they invade the Black Mesa Research Facility to conceal any evidence of the Resonance Cascade.

While it is stated that the HECU and the Black Ops are officially known to enter the facility in the event of an emergency and work with the Security Force as 'a dangerous and very efficient clean-up crew'^[7] (although some employees consider it a rumor^[8]), they are shown to work independently, killing all living things inside the base, whether they are Black Mesa employees, HECU soldiers, or alien (Xen and Race X) lifeforms, and eventually destroying Black Mesa itself altogether through use of a nuclear weapon.

They are divided into two groups: The Female and Male Assassins.

• 1Appearances
• 3Gallery
  • 3.2Retail
• 4List of appearances

Appearances[edit]

Half-Life[edit]

The Black Ops first appear in Sector E in Half-Life during the chapter Apprehension, and later make one more appearance in Sector F, during the chapter Lambda Core. Only Female Assassins are seen by Gordon Freeman in the game.

Female Assassins are strikingly nimble and agile, able to sprint faster than any other enemy or character and can jump to extreme heights. They wear a black jump suit and use night vision goggles that include a headset with a microphone, although none are ever heard speaking. They are armed with a silenced 9mm Pistol and grenades, along with a cloaking field which they can use to conceal themselves while stationary.

Along with the Female Assassins, Opposing Force introduced the group's male variant. Male Assassins wear black combat gear and ski masks that only expose their eyes. Some are seen wearing night vision goggles. Although not visible, they apparently have a communicator in their ear which they are seen listening to whenever they eliminate a target.

They are equipped with submachine guns with a grenade launcher attachment and regular grenades, but some Male Assassins who act as snipers have a M-40A1 Sniper Rifle. They utilize equipment and vehicles, such as the M44 cargo truck, the AH-64 Apache, and the Osprey Heliplane similar to the HECU, but black in color. Male Assassins are significantly less agile than their female counterparts, but still retain a high degree of mobility and swiftness. Unlike Female Assassins, Male Assassins are the only Black Ops members to be heard speaking, albeit rarely.

The distinction between the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit and the Black Ops was not made at first in the original Half-Life. Although the two groups never encountered one another in the game, Female Assassins were coded to fight on the same side as the Marines. Many players assumed this meant they were working with the military since assassins had no backstory, and as such, many fan-made maps included them fighting alongside each other. It was not until the release of Opposing Force that more insight regarding the Black Ops was revealed.

Half-Life: Opposing Force[edit]

Half Life Black Ops Mod

Black Ops are featured much more prominently in Opposing Force. The reason for their presence at Black Mesa is also explained, something that was never made clear in the original game. Opposing Force explains that, after the initial failure of the HECU's clean-up operation, the Black Ops are sent to cover up the whole incident by destroying the entire facility. To do this, they intend to set off a thermonuclear device within the complex. Adrian Shephard locates the bomb the Black Ops deliver in a parking garage and is able to disarm it, but shortly thereafter it is seen being reactivated by the G-Man. The flash of a nuclear explosion is later witnessed in the epilogue, indicating the successful detonation of this bomb.

During gameplay, Black Ops are shown to have utter contempt for the HECU soldiers, considering them incompetent. One assassin angrily remarks to another, 'Why do we always have to clean up a mess the grunts can't handle?'. The Black Ops are openly hostile towards Marines, killing any who have not yet escaped as part of their mission. While the HECU are aware that the Black Ops group exists, they are confused by their arrival and at first wondered if they were there to assist. However, the Black Ops soon start killing all of the non-Black Ops personnel they can find. HECU radio traffic shows that the Marines were totally taken by surprise, much like how the HECU initially overwhelms the Black Mesa personnel. Further evidence of their viciousness can be seen after discovering a Marine engineer who, after being brutally beaten and interrogated by assassins, is simply left for dead, bleeding out and trapped in a garage.^[5]

Black Ops soldiers can run much faster than the Marines, and up close, they use martial arts kicks and punches as melee attacks. They also have a little more health. Also, unlike their Marine counterparts, Black Ops assassins operate in total silence when in combat, refusing to even yell in pain when injured.

Half-Life: Decay[edit]

In Decay, the Black Ops assassins are only featured in the bonus chapter, Xen Attacks. In it they battle against the players' two Vortigaunt characters, X-8973 and R-4913, in the underground parking lot originally featured at the end of Opposing Force, under Sector E's largest Ordinance Facility.

Trivia[edit]

• The Female Assassins originally had the ability to attack their enemies at close range by kicking them. The unused attack animations are still present in the model file.

• The Female Assassins were originally to be armed with crossbows. The quivers used to hold the crossbow bolts are still featured in the model, attached to the belt.

• The early Female Assassin’s model features yellow goggles, turned red in the retail model.

• As seen in the Opposing Force model files, the Male Assassins were originally to use flash grenades.

• Early concept art for Quiver features special CIA units, one of which is a female. The Black Ops likely stem from it.^[2]

• The Female Assassin’s model's breasts possess a highly exaggerated bounce when walking. This was removed in Opposing Force, the censored German edition, and in the PlayStation 2 console port of the original game.

• The Half-Life 2 successor and Combine counterpart to the Female Assassin is the cut Combine Assassin.^[9][10]

• When playing in Hard mode, Female Assassins also have a cloaking field, which they use to become partially invisible during combat.

• In some instances, if a Female Assassin is killed by being shot in the back while running, her nightvision goggles flip up, revealing blue (in Half-Life) or brown (in Opposing Force) eyes, and she will pull her legs together and lie dead on her left side. However, in the censored German edition of Half-Life, the Female Assassin’s goggles will always remain down after death.

• The Female Assassin model featured in Opposing Force has brown eyes, while they are blue in that of Half-Life. The model also does not have grenades attached to the belt. The textures are also of lower resolution and slightly different, such as a different, darker grey for the Pistol's silencer. The overall build is also thinner.

• A promotional image for Half-Life features a live-action version of the Female Assassin.

Gallery[edit]

Pre-release[edit]

• CIA Female Soldier concept art.

• The cabal for the Half-Life chapter Surface Tension, with an 'open area' for the Black Ops on the far right.

• Promotional image featuring a live-action Female Assassin.

• Hi-res model render.

• Hi-res model render with knife.

Retail[edit]

Models[edit]

• Female Assassin.

• Opposing Force version.

• Dreamcast version.

• PlayStation 2 version.

• Unused kick animation.

• The Female Assassin in lookout animation.

• White Male Assassin variant.

• Black Male Assassin variant.

• Male Assassin with night vision goggles variant.

• Multiplayer model.

• Black Ops Apache.

• Unused Black Ops Osprey.

Screenshots[edit]

• Idle Female Assassin.

• A Female Assassin firing at Gordon with her cloaking field almost fully enabled.

• Two Female Assassins with their cloaking fields in different stages of activation.

• Another Female Assassin throwing a grenade while her cloaking field activates.

• Black Ops M44 cargo truck.

• Male Assassins stand guard outside a truck.

• Assassin firing at Shock Troopers near a gibbed comrade.

• An Black Ops truck with unloaded troops.

• Assassin manning a Tripod-Mounted Heavy Machine Gun.

• The only Assassin sniper encountered.

• Assassin manning a mortar.

• Black Ops Apache firing at a Voltigore.

• Ditto.

• Male Assassins arming the bomb.

• The truck on which the bomb is armed.

• Staged screenshot of soldiers fighting Race X and Xen aliens and the Black Ops.

List of appearances[edit]

Main games[edit]

• Half-Life(First appearance)

Other[edit]

• Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar(Indirect mention only)

References[edit]

1. ↑ ^1.01.1File:Black Ops oldpromo.jpg
2. ↑ ^2.02.1Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, page 12
3. ↑The Ted B interview on The Daily Death (February 17, 1998) (archived)
4. ↑Interview with Ken Birdwell on Voodooextreme.com (archived)
5. ↑ ^5.05.1Half-Life: Opposing Force Prima Guide
6. ↑Half-Life: Opposing Force
7. ↑Half-Life: Blue Shift instruction manual
8. ↑Half-Life
9. ↑Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, page 105
10. ↑Half-Life 2 leak

Half-life Black Ops Assassin Female

Factions
Retail	Aperture Science · Black Mesa · Black Ops · Combine · Hazardous Environment Combat Unit · Race X · Resistance · Xen
Cut	Central Intelligence Agency · Agents

The Black Ops
Weapons	9mm Pistol · Fragmentation Grenade · Laser Trip Mine · M249 Squad Automatic Weapon · M-40A1 Sniper Rifle · Mortar · Submachine Gun · Sentry Gun · Tripod-Mounted Heavy Machine Gun‎
Transportation	AH-64 Apache · M44 cargo truck
Technology	Cloaking field · Transportation · Weapons
Weapons (cut)	Crossbow · Flash Grenade
Transportation (cut)	Osprey Heliplane