Opposing Force was received well by critics, many describing it as the new benchmark title for expansion packs, in a similar fashion to how Half-Life revolutionized the first-person shooter genre. The player character, Adrian Shephard, is sent in to neutralize the Black Mesa Research Facility when 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. Marine, one of the enemy characters in the original game. Opposing Force returns to the same setting as Half-Life, but instead portrays the events from the perspective of a U.S. Over the course of development, Gearbox brought in a variety of outside talent from other areas of the video games industry to help bolster various aspects of design. Randy Pitchford, the lead designer on the game, later noted that he believed Gearbox was selected to develop Opposing Force because Valve wanted to concentrate on their future projects. Opposing Force is the first expansion for Half-Life and was announced in April 1999. The game was developed by Gearbox Software and Valve Corporation and published by Sierra On-Line on November 19, 1999. Half-Life: Opposing Force is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life.
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