The Consoling Couple is a couple of husband and wife seen through the Half-Life 2 games story arc. In the first chapter of Half-Life 2, Point Insertion, a man sitting on a couch can be seen embracing a woman while she weeps over their grim situation. They have appeared at least once in every game so far since their first appearance, and have been confirmed to be the same characters each time
The Barn Advisor in the Episode Two trailer. When Alyx and Gordon are driving to White Forest with their newly found Muscle Car, they spot smoke on the ridge next to a barn, where they discover a crashed Advisor Pod. They come to the conclusion that an Advisor is in the area. They travel to the barn, where they are assaulted by periodic psychic
The original Half-Life actually had three expansion campaigns that cast us as new characters. In Half-Life: Blue Shift we played as friendly security guard, Barney (who also returns in Half-Life 2).
The Ichthyosaur (taxonomic designation: Xenotherus icthycanthus, or "Spined Alien Fish Beast") is an aquatic alien enemy and mini-boss transported to Earth from the Border World, Xen. Prominently featured in Half-Life and its expansions. It has a small cameo at the start of Half-Life 2. Although the in-game creature is named after the extinct marine reptile group, the Ichthyosaurs, it
The All-Knowing Vortigaunt is an Easter Egg featured in Half-Life 2. Near the end of the chapter Water Hazard (in the map d1_canals_13), Gordon Freeman must destroy a Hunter-Chopper that has been following his trail. After this is completed, a large, sliding metal gate must be opened to proceed further (the one directly after the hunter chopper fight, not the one over the dam). After going
The Victory Mine is an abandoned mining area located in the Outlands, visited by Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance during their journey to White Forest. Early on, Alyx is injured by a Hunter and Gordon must go deep inside the mines in an Antlion colony to retrieve larval extract to save her. While the mines had many uses to the Resistance and the Combine, many parts of the mines are infested by
0x5JBm. 4. Alyx's brush with death in Episode Two used to be something else entirely. After growing so attached to Alyx Vance over the course of Half-Life 2, it's utterly devastating when Gordon has to
Half-Life 2: Episode Two is a 2007 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. Following Episode One , it is the second of two shorter episodic games that continue the story of Half-Life 2 . Players control Gordon Freeman, who travels through the mountains surrounding City 17 to a resistance base with his ally Alyx Vance. Like previous games in the series, Episode Two combines
ep1_c17_05. "What kind of hospital is this?" ― Alyx Vance [src] The Hospital is a building visited by Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance during their escape from City 17 in the fourth chapter of Half-Life 2: Episode One, Urban Flight. It does not have a precise name, since the sign above its entrance only reads "Стационар" ("statsionar
Mark Laidlaw, the lead writer for Half-Life, published an "unofficial" script for HL2 Ep. 3 after leaving Valve. He's since taken it down, but there's an archive of it somewhere. Since the release of Half-Life Alyx, though, it seems that Valve might eventually finish the story. But there's no confirmation yet.
Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2: Episode One. Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is a technology demo showing off the Source engine's HDR rendering capabilities. The town of St. Olga, where the game is set, was originally slated to take place between the levels Highway 17 and Sandtraps but was dropped. Lost Coast was released on October 27, 2005 [1] as a free
The Barn Advisor in the Episode Two trailer. When Alyx and Gordon are driving to White Forest with their newly found Muscle Car, they spot smoke on the ridge next to a barn, where they discover a crashed Advisor Pod. They come to the conclusion that an Advisor is in the area. They travel to the barn, where they are assaulted by periodic psychic
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