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Gabe and his friend shoot many people gooood stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_%28series%29

hl1: portals, aleins, army comes in to quarentine, Gman gives you a choice to keep working for him or die. you go into deep freeze

Play Black Mesa. It's a free mod of HL1 but uses the HL2 engine and textures.

If you enjoyed HL2 you will enjoy it immensely.

To sum up HL1, you're a scientist conducting an experiment when things go boom. Queue rips in space/portals opening and letting aliens come crashing in from everywhere to generally mess with your day.

The army shows up, they're not too happy so they just decide: kill everything.

Gordon/You decide "fuck that noise" so you proceed through the compound caught in the middle but pretty much serving up quite a large pile of whoop-ass to both sides.

Random NPCs tell you the good ol' boys in the Lambda Complex might have an answer so off you go on your merry way. Yadda yadda, kill some small aliens, some giant aliens, get harassed by helicopters, jump off a hydro dam and befor long you get to Lambda.

So you get there and even though there are like 3 HEV suits on the wall that anyone could have used, they tell you they've been waiting for you to jump into a portal they've setup to go fight the source of the aliens. Huge battle, jump into the portal and...

Zen. So you fuck around in Zen for a while and then decide it's time to kill Nihil so you do and then before you can go home our friend the G-Man has you in a stasis. Accept his "employment" or die.

Gordon is kept in G-Man's stasis until he wakes up on the train at the start of HL2; years in the future...

Spoiler Alert: at 50% Half Life 2 starts.

The thing about Half-Life is that it doesn't have storytelling in its traditional sense. You don't have any cutscenes or stuff. If you go around the lab talking to people, paying attention to details (like lockers), you can learn who you are, where you are and what you are doing. And HL2 is just tied to the story of the first one, which is why it's a bit confusing at first.

Okay, here's a quick recap.

Gordon and his buddies try to make an experiment about opening a multidimensional portal, using a mysterious new crystal that someone (SPOILER: the G-man) gave his buddies. This breaks all hell loose as slaves, soldiers and other fauna from the crystal's homeworld starts appearing and teleporting to the facility. At first, Gordon needs to escape and find the evacuation unit (HECU - the first soldiers you meet), but instead they're killing everyone to clean up all witnesses. Back in the unsafe Black Mesa it is then.

After that, word gets to him that some people found a way to close the "cascade" that causes all those teleportations, so he's heading to the other end of the facility. Then he meets yet another clean-up group (the black ops chicks that are so fucking annoying), and gets captured by the HECU, but escapes his deathtrap. Slowly, he's able to get to the other end of Black Mesa and he prepares to open another portal to the world these things are coming from, Xen.

After getting there, he finds out that it's all sorts of awesome there, but that more importantly, those creatures are the minions and slaves of the Nihilanth, who's going to be his target for barbecue. Also turns out that the vortigaunts (brown aliens that kill you with electric jolts) are a slave race, and not necessarily enemies, and that the Nihilanth actually escaped to Xen from another, bigger threat, which is the Combine from Half Life 2. Then Gordon fries Nihilanth's flowery head, and gets a job offer from the G-man, although the only other possibility is certain death, so he chooses to go into stasis until he's needed.

The expansions also give you a lot more backstory about the HECU and everything, but I can't be arsed.

From memory:

• Gordon is working on some experiment.
• It goes wrong.
• Aliens arrive, start killing everyone.
• Military tries to contain the situation, and cover it up by killing everyone.

As for Gordon's suit, Black Mesa is funded by the US Government. Which means that they can make new Hazard Suits. So why would the soldiers have been told to try and preserve the suit ?
Especially when, as HL:Opposing Forces shows, the plan was to nuke Black Mesa. Oh, and the main character there was wearing a military issue hazard suit.

Science experiment. Boom. Aliens aliens aliens. Marines marines. Aliens, marines, aliens, marines, spaaaaaaace. Gigantic alien baby with a huge head. The end.

aliens come
you kill aliens

end

Don't believe Gordon's lies - here's what really happened

Important piece of information:

In between Half Life 1 and 2 the Combine aliens invade earth. A conflict which is called the 7 Hour War (because it only lasted 7 hours). They found earth after detecting the resonance cascade, which is the experiment at the beginning of Half Life 1. Gordon Freeman was in stasis for decades and completely missed out on all of this. That's why Half Life 1 and 2 have very different settings and stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TfPkrDRDKE

This is the best explanation I've found so far:
here

Half-Life 1? Everything is fine up until Xen, which kind of gets...weird...

Half-Life 2? Not a fucking chance. All I know is that some kind of alien version of the Nazis have taken over and some asshole on TV likes making long, boring speeches about nothing.

HL1: tram, tram, speaker, guard, scientist, boom, boom, boom, pew, pew, pew, bang, bang, bang. Hello Mr Freeman.

Half-Life 1 is basically a re-imagining of the plot of the original Doom game, except instead of demons it's aliens.

You are saving the world! So shut up and take your gun. :)

Gordon Freeman tries to bake a cake while on hallucinogens.

• Guys, I think that I now how to transport everything instantly!
• Yea? What is it?
• Let's create a portals!
• That's amazing idea professor! Let's build it!
  "Few months later"
• Ok, everything is ready - call for a Gordon Freeman.
  "Hero arrives"
• Push that cart to create a space rift.
  "portal is on"
  "hero gets sucked in the rift"
  "he is seeing thing like monsters etc."
  "he gets back to the lab - lab is in ruin"
  "explosions"
  "bodies, aliens, soldiers"
  "Founders of project are closing the facility - kill everything inside of it"
  +++ you have to escape.
  "meanwhile some folks are trying to improve the failured experiment - avalanche of enemies is here"

/Do not read it if you do not wanna get confused and you do not want read lies.\

u do experiment

u fail experiment

u repair experiment

u sleep experiment

A scientist experiment ends with unforeseen consequences.

That's easy.

1. SCIENCE!
2. UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES!
3. G-Man.
4. The end.

GMan orchestrates The Resonance Cascade by supplying the test sample that Gordan Freeman uses. The denizens of Xen notice and begin to flee to earth but the Combine has already taken notice itself. The Black Ops are sent in to clean up the incident and kill anyone they find. Barney Calhoun escapes the facility with a group of scientists (Blue Shift). A third never named race of aliens start teleporting to Black Mesa and attacking both the humans and aliens from Xen they find there; Shephard kills the Gene Worm facilitating this second invasion, and who is itself coming though a portal to Black Mesa at the time. He is then taken into custody by GMan to prevent the story of Black mesa getting out and the facility is destroyed in a nuclear explosion, originally set by the Black Ops, disarmed by Shepard, and then rearmed by GMan (Opposing Forces). By the time of the arrival of the second aliens, Gordon Freeman has already travelled to Xen and now he defeats Nihilanth, the leader of the Vortigaunts (freeing them from his slavery like absolute control), and is recruited by GMan to work for him and put into stasis, ending Half Life.

The following is a recount of the chaos that ensued between the original and Half Life 2; Sometime within this mess it is believed that the events of Portal take place. The Resonance Cascade spreads creating The Portal Storms depositing aliens from Xen all over earth. The human populations huddle together in urban areas behind fences and armed guards abandoning the outside world to the aliens. The Combine launch an all out assault on earth using these Portal Storms, and the Vortigaunts ally with the humans in this struggle. The Combine immediately start building their Citadels and converting humans to the Overwatch. Dr. Breen is modified and made administrator of earth, and in his first act he surrenders earth, and for the most part major opposition is ended (7 hours after the invasion started). The Survivors disperse into the country and rebel fighter groups start to form while the remaining major cities are renamed to City 1, ..., City 27, etc..

Humanity is repeatedly told that this is simply a traditional period in joining the Combine's Universal Union, but of course the Combine has already started their Borg like genocidal assimilation of the Humans and enslavement of the Vortigaunts. The Overwatch implement their Suppression Field, blocking human procreation. A chemical is put into the water to make people gradually forget the past and the Combine begin to drain earth's oceans.

Gordon Freeman returns from stasis, sent by GMan to help the rebellion. He lands a huge blow against the Combine at Nova Prospekt sparking a major rebellion. Continuing to be directed by GMan, mostly from the shadows, Gordon is successful in destabilizing the reactor of Combine's capital on earth City 17's Citadel. GMan's objective accomplished, and the Citadel about to blow leaving the Combine leaderless and fractured, GMan returns Gordon to stasis ending Half Life 2. Episode 1 starts immediately after this with GMan going back to rescue Alyx Vance but being blocked by a group of Vortigaunts who rescue her themselves, transporting her to the Citadels base and then forcing Gordon Freeman out of stasis and sending him after her. These Vortigaunts continue to block GMan from now on, severely restricting his ability to guide and communicate with both Alyx and Gordon. Before they lose the Citadel completely, the Combine set it to create a super portal and send a transmission to their homeworld asking for reinforcements. This portal is created and the request sent, destroying the Citadel in the process and ending Episode 1, but soon after the resistance is able to shut down this portal and in the process learn the location of the long missing Aperture Science research vessel, the Borealis, thought to have far advanced portal technology on board. And in the final scene of Episode 2, Eli Vance, one of the leading scientists of the resistance and Alyx's father is killed, by a newly hatched Combine advisor.