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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 ...
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 ...
Half-Life 2: Episode One is a 2006 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve for Windows. It continues the story of Half-Life 2 (2004). As the scientist Gordon Freeman, players must escape City 17 with Gordon's companion Alyx Vance. Like previous Half-Life games, Episode One combines shooting, puzzles and storytelling.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two is a 2007 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. Following Episode One (2006), it is the second of two shorter episodic games that continue the story of Half-Life 2 (2004).
In December 2008, Valve announced that the two main Half-Life games had sold 15.8 million units in retail (9.3m for the first, 6.5m for the second), while the Half-Life expansions [85] had sold 1.9 million (Opposing Force: 1.1 million, Blue Shift: 800,000) and Half-Life 2 expansions 1.4 million units (all for Episode One) by the end of November ...
[57] [58] Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is also technically included with the PC version of The Orange Box, as it was offered as a free download to all owners of Half-Life 2. And as of 2024 is listed as a part of the Orange Box after Lost Coast and Half-Life 2 Episodes One, and Two were integrated into Half-Life 2 as a part of its 20th anniversary ...
GoldenEye: Source - A total conversion for Half-Life 2 that aims to recreate the original Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007. It received Mod DB's "Editors' Choice for Reinvention" in 2006, [53] "Third Place, Mod of the Year" in 2006, [34] and "Fourth Place, Top Unreleased Mods" in 2005. [54] Half-Life 2: Capture the Flag - A simple capture-the ...
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]