Protagonist Gordon Freeman spends the majority of the game on his own, exploring and fighting enemies solo however, he is sometimes met by non-hostile NPCs who may provide dialogue or other forms of support.
Most of the game's environmental puzzles are also built around this sort of object manipulation. It also introduces the Gravity Gun, a new physics-based weapon capable of picking up and launching most small or medium-sized objects with considerable force, potentially turning these mundane items into improvised weapons. While its run-and-gun first-person gameplay is very similar to that of the original, Half-Life 2 sets itself apart from many of its shooter contemporaries through the use of a robust physics engine (a heavily modified version of Havok) which allows players to directly manipulate many objects throughout the game world. Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two each continue the franchise's overarching story while introducing a handful of new graphical and gameplay enhancements.
Subsequent follow-ups to Half-Life 2 were released as standalone episodes. Half-Life 2 is notable for being the first game to require installation of Valve's Steam client, even for retail copies. Additionally, Half-Life 2 is included in The Orange Box, a 2007 compilation title which also brought the game to Xbox 360 and PS3.
It has earned thirty-nine " Game of the Year" awards and has been ported to Xbox, Mac, Linux and Android platforms. Several years later, Gordon is re-awoken for his next assignment: to disrupt the occupation of Earth by the Combine, a powerful alien collective that has subjugated the remnants of humanity during his long absence.Īs with its ground-breaking 1998 predecessor, Half-Life 2 was released to overwhelming critical acclaim and commercial success, and it has frequently been cited for popularizing the use of physics manipulation in first-person titles to attack enemies or solve environmental puzzles the game's advanced facial animation system also garnered significant praise.
Despite his success in destroying the alien's apparent leader Nihilanth during the events of the original Half-Life, Gordon finds himself conscripted by the enigmatic G-Man and placed into suspended animation. It continues the story of Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist caught in a disastrous teleportation experiment that becomes the catalyst for an alien invasion. Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter developed by Valve and originally published exclusively for PC on November 16th, 2004. Overview Gordon and Alyx beneath the Citadel
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