Black-clad security forces patrol the streets, while propaganda blares endlessly from omnipresent video screens. A mysterious enemy known as the Combine has conquered the planet and installed a human puppet government to carry out its rule.
Half-Life 2 takes place an untold number of years after the Black Mesa incident, but it's clear that much has changed. Since there would be no sequel if you chose the latter, Half-Life 2 assumes you chose the former, and you start the game in a train entering City 17 for your introduction into this new world.Ĭity 17 is a run-down urban center that's the equivalent of the Warsaw ghettos during World War II, but instead of Jews being rounded up to live in City 17, it's all the remnants of a defeated humanity. At the end of Half-Life, the G-Man offered you a choice: work for him or die. Or did he? Half-Life 2 starts you off facing the infamous G-Man, the mysterious blue-suited character from the first game. In Half-Life 2, you once again assume the role of Gordon Freeman, the theoretical physicist and dimension-hopping commando who saved the world from an alien invasion at the end of Half-Life. It's time for you to once again take up your submachine gun and take out all the foes threatening humanity. Still, that doesn't stop Half-Life 2 from being a very impressive and engaging shooter, and a faithful follow-up to one of the greatest PC games of all time. With that said, many of those tricks feel more than a bit familiar now, and the game itself is saddled with a disappointing story.
And, in many ways, this big-budget sequel does what it sets out to do: Half-Life 2 is a technically amazing, sharply honed first-person shooter that pulls all the tricks that made Half-Life such a beloved experience.
Well, it's time to forget about that, because Half-Life 2 has arrived. And while there was little question that there would eventually be a sequel, no one could have imagined the long and torturous development process that led to Half-Life 2. As a result, it paved the way for many of the outstanding first-person shooters that have followed. Half-Life single-handedly reinvented the first-person shooter, putting the emphasis on cinematic pacing and complete immersion in the experience. It's hard to believe that, prior to Half-Life 2, Valve had really made only one game.
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