sigh look, I appreciate what this game did for the industry, and I respect it greatly for everything it did for the first person shooter and despite what i'm about to say. I highly recommend trying the original Half-Life. I don't like this game. I do not. I feel like the enemy soldiers having hitscan and aimbot is incredibly unfair, every encounter i have with them leaves me with very little health on normal mode, and you can call this a skill issue all you want but I don't understand when a game has difficulty options, I decide to pick normal and the game bombards me with what I feel is cheap bullshit. The later levels suck, there's not a lot of indication on where to go because a lot of the architecture looks the same. I'm aware of Black Mesa and I'm certain at the very least I'll enjoy the other Half-Life games more, but this one just isn't for me. I'm sorry.