I noticed, headcrabs look and act very similar(attach to head) to the alien babies from Alien. Alien was made before Half Life. Could this be plagiarism? Is there any other ideas that could have been stolen?
Discuss, bitches.
I’d hardly say it was plagiarism. Just the reuse of an already common idea. Alien’s iconic status as the one of the best horror SF films ever makes you think that it must have done it first.
the word you’re looking for is inspiration, and that’s using the word loosely
Man so true about the headcrabs, and the zombies were stolen from George Romero movies, and the medkits idea was stolen from duke nukem 3d, the whole fps idea was stolen from wolfenstein, and the guns were … and so on ?
HL pretty much ripped off everything you can imagine.
Yeah, I know. HL was one of the least original games of the decade. Hell, it even ripped off Conker’s Bad Fur Day, which was just a ripoff of every popular movie and game of it’s time!
/sarcasm
Everything construed as “good” in a modern context invariably is a mashup of a bunch of things that you ripped off and one good twist to mix it up.
Half-Life was released in 1998 and Conker’s was released in 2001.
But seriously, Half-Life totally ripped off the Stephen King novella “The Mist”.
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Isn’t that how we get games like HL1??? From ideas that needed improving on in a new fashion? duke Nukem had health kits, so that was a good idea, right? Half Life used it, just like anyone else would.
It is becoming extremely hard to create ORIGINAL game, mostly because the ideas have already been used! Unreal is about the most orignal game I have seen, and its about as old as half life…
Whoa! You are such a fast noticer.
You think I JUST noticed this? No. I have known it for a LONG time. I just finally put something down, simply just because I felt like it…
Its all about function. Alien “facehuggers” implant an egg in the chest, HL headcrabs zombify the victim. The only similarity is leaping and attaching, they dont even look the same.
You can’t make always everything completely new. Better you copy something good, instead of making it terribly on your own.
Oh, and I read somewhere that Valve are huge fans of Alien, that’s why they made them similiar to the facehuggers.
I bet their first concept name was “Headhugger” 
Again, I was being sarcastic.
If headcrabs could be considered plagiarism from Aliens, then Halo IS Aliens: The Game.
First of all, it’s not plagiarism. Second of all: Antlions.
I came here looking for an asian knock-off of half-life. I was not satisfied.
Are you serious? That’s not the inspiration for HL2’s antlions. The Starship Troopers’ ones are…
Everybody CALM DOWN.
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There. Now, There is nothing wrong with reusing ideas, especially if the ideas are heavily modified. Everything reuses some ideas from something else, no matter what it is. The thing is, Half-Life is original not for one specific thing, but because of the feel as a whole. No other game had the feel and atmosphere of Half-Life at the time, and that’s what matters. Not individual details such as the headcrabs, zombies, antlions, xen borderworld or anything else.