Occasionally scripted sequences move the plot along or let you do something cool (like gun down an enemy gunship) but the amount time spent traveling and sheer distance can get grating. Your missions will usually follow a predictable pattern: get to point A or B to rescue or meet up with person X. The game then introduces (or reintroduces) you to a variety of scientists and personnel that make up the human resistance against the alien force. Lethal with a pistol, she is no damsel in distress. She becomes a trusted ally (and in the episodes that continue the story) demonstrates one of the best AI’s you’ll ever see.
It’s one of the more intense sequences in gaming you’ll experience.Īfter blacking out, you’re rescued by Alyx, daughter of one of Gordon’s coworkers at Black Mesa. You’re unarmed, scared, and have no idea where you’re going. The entire opening sequence is beautifully written and immediately gives you a sense of the world-after being rescued from detention by your old friend Barney, you are immediately hunted by the Combine, traversing rooftops and stumbling into apartment buildings full of frightened subjugated humans in a desperate attempt to escape. In this dystopic future, humans can’t breed. And that is why they won’t let humanity breed.
Breen prattles on the TV screen about how “our benefactors” are only protecting us from ourselves. When you first enter the world of Half-Life 2, you watch as the gas-mask wearing Combine police herd humans like cattle while Dr. Instead of a survivalist, Gordon Freeman is now a freedom fighter and a symbol of hope to humanity-perhaps the only truly “Free Man” left.
Half-Life 2’s grim future resembles something out of The White Mountains trilogy or 1984.
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