Each one will retail for $19.95US, and should prove between 4 and 6 hours long. There will be a total of three episodes, with the finale due in late 2007. Games like Rag Doll Kung Fu, Darwinia, Red Orchestra and even Earth 2160 have also found their home there. I personally understood that it would be a content delivery system for Valves products, but since then, it has become much more. Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Steam.When Steam was originally introduced in 2002, I don’t think anybody knew exactly what to expect from it. Hopefully, fans won't have to wait another 13 years for the next Half-Life game. Episode Two ends with Alyx crying over her dead father, leaving us on a cliffhanger that lasted until this year. The Advisors are driven off by D0G, the robot Alyx built as a companion when she was a child, but is too late to save Eli. After a long battle that ends with the Resistance launching a satellite that would prevent the Combine from opening a superportal, Alyx, Gordon and Eli make their way to a helicopter that would take them to the lost Aperture Science freighter, the Borealis (a tie-in to Portal, Valve's other popular franchise).īefore they can leave, they are attacked by a pair of Combine Advisors, who kill Eli right in front of Alyx and Gordon. Once she and Gordon reunite with the Resistance leadership, Alyx delivers the message, leaving Eli terrified of what the G-Man is planning. While unconscious, the G-Man leaves a subliminal message for Alyx's father in her own daughter, showing an interest in Miss Vance as he does. Along the way, Alyx is heavily wounded and nearly dies, but is saved with the help of Freeman and the Vortigaunts. Half-Life 2: Episode Two follows the aftermath of the previous game as Gordon and Alyx race to deliver an important data packet to the Resistance base of White Forest. As the Core explodes, the G-Man returns, freezing time and coming to collect Gordon for another task, leaving Alyx to her fate. With the help of the Resistance, Gordon eventually makes his way to the top of the Combine Citadel in City 17, defeating Doctor Breen and destroying the Dark Energy Reactor at the top of the Citadel.
He is saved by Alyx Vance, who becomes the main NPC companion throughout Half-Life 2 and the following games, as well as the main character in the new VR game. Over the past two decades, a multiversal empire known as the Combine used the resulting Portal Storms from the Resonance Cascade to invade and conquer the entire Earth, in a conflict simply called "The Seven Hour War." The Administrator of Black Mesa, Doctor Breen, became the face of the Combine's rule, as they transformed the ruined world into a dystopia straight from the pages of George Orwell's 1984.ĭropped into this changed world with nothing but the clothes on his back, Freeman is intercepted by the Resistance, a rebel group fighting against the Combine. In the second game in the series, Gordon is suddenly awoken and deposited on a train 20 years after the events of Half-Life. Related: Valve Just Banned More Than 40,000 Dota 2 Accounts - Here's Why Half-Life 2 The unknown cosmic being forcibly recruits Gordon Freeman and puts him in stasis, setting the stage for the events of Half-Life 2. Between battling his way through an alien invasion and his own country's military, Freeman eventually ends up on the alien homeworld, an extradimensional plane known as Xen.Īfter battling his way through the strange dimension and killing the Nihilanth, the mastermind behind the invasion, Freeman is approached by the mysterious entity known as the G-Man. A Resonance Cascade wreaked havoc throughout the facility, allowing an extradimensional alien invasion to begin as hostile alien life forms began teleporting randomly throughout the facility.Īs Gordon Freeman makes his way through the facility, he eventually comes across the US Military forces of the HECU, who were deployed to contain the invasion and silence the scientists and the witnesses responsible for the Resonance Cascade, including Freeman himself. The original Half-Life follows the events of the Resonance Cascade at the secret Black Mesa research facility. You play as Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist indirectly responsible for the events that transpired.