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Depiction of the Combine's Civil Protection. Certain elements of the Combine's appearance, such as that of the Advisors, are inspired by the works of Frank Herbert. [1] The towering Striders seen throughout Half-Life 2 and its subsequent episodes are based directly on the Martian tripods of the H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds, where Martians invade Victorian England, using the tripods ...
Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman is a webcomic by Christopher C. Livingston that parodies the first-person shooter video game Half-Life 2.The comic is illustrated with screenshots of characters posed using Garry's Mod, a tool which allows manipulation of the Source engine used by Half-Life 2.
Half-Life 2 was selected by readers of The Guardian as the best game of the decade, with particular praise for the environment design. The Guardian journalist Keith Stuart wrote that it "pushed the envelope for the genre, and set a new high watermark for FPS narrative". [72] Half-Life 2 won Crispy Gamer's Game of the Decade [73] tournament ...
An uncompleted mod for Half-Life 2 hosted by Mod DB, School Shooter was condemned in the mainstream media and within industry publications for making a violent video game where the protagonist is a school shooter who kills defenseless targets. [178] [179] [180] In response to the controversy, Mod DB pulled the game from its website. [181] 2011 ...
Entropy: Zero 2 is set between the events of Half-Life 2 (2004) and Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006); [10] in Half-Life 2, Gordon Freeman leads an uprising against an alien interdimensional empire known as the Combine, culminating in the destruction of the main reactor of the Citadel—the Combine's fortress on Earth—and the presumed death of Earth's Administrator, Dr. Wallace Breen. [11]
Novels about propaganda (2 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Propaganda in fiction" ... Half-Life 2; Hate Song; Hate Week; I. I, James Blunt; K. Killzone 3; M. MagnaCarta 2;
Ravenholm is a fictional ghost town in the 2004 first-person shooter game Half-Life 2 created by Valve.It serves as the setting for the game's sixth chapter, "We Don't Go to Ravenholm", which follows protagonist Gordon Freeman as he journeys through the area after escaping a Combine attack in order to reach a nearby Resistance outpost.
Alyx is the daughter of Dr. Eli Vance and his deceased wife Azian, and she becomes a close friend and ally of Gordon Freeman over the course of Half-Life 2. The 2020 VR title Half-Life: Alyx, which takes place between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, focuses on Alyx and Eli Vance as they fight against the Combine's occupation of Earth. [9]