Half Life 2 Wikipedia. Half Life 2. DevelopersValve Corporation. PublishersValve Corporation. WritersMarc Laidlaw. ComposersKelly Bailey. Series. Half Life. Engine. Source. PlatformsMicrosoft Windows, Xbox, Xbox 3. Play. Station 3, OS X, Linux, Android. Release. November 1. Microsoft Windows. Xbox. NA November 1. EU November 1. 8, 2. Xbox 3. 60. NA October 1. HALFLIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. Manual De Seminario Supervisado on this page. Valves debut title wins more. HalfLife 2 Episode Two is a firstperson shooter video game, the second in a series of episodic sequels to the 2004 HalfLife 2. It was developed by Valve. Tablet PC information, news, reviews, software and accessories for tablet PCS. Quick Compare includes photos and allows visitors to compare the differences between. July 10 HalfLife update released We have updated the public release of HalfLife. Changes in this update are Fixed crash when entering certain malformed strings. Official site. Includes screenshots, trailers, and a game overview. EU October 1. 9, 2. AU October 2. 5, 2. Play. Station 3. NA December 1. EU December 1. 4, 2. AU December 2. 0, 2. OS XLinux. Android. GenresFirst person shooter. ModesSingle player. Half Life 2 stylized as HLF LIFE2 is a first person shootervideo game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to 1. Half Life, and was released in November 2. During development, a substantial part of the project was leaked and distributed on the Internet. The game was developed alongside Valves Steam software and the Source engine. Taking place some years after the events of Half Life, protagonist Gordon Freeman is awakened by the enigmatic G Man to find the world has been taken over by the alien Combine. Joined by allies including resistance fighter Alyx Vance, Gordon searches for a way to free humanity using a variety of weapons, including the object manipulating Gravity Gun. Like its predecessor, Half Life 2 received critical acclaim. It was praised for its advanced physics, animation, sound, AI, graphics, and narrative. The game won 3. 9 Game of the Year awards and the title of Game of the Decade at the 2. Half-Life_2_Episode_One_Citadel_Base.jpg' alt='Half Life 2 Full Pc' title='Half Life 2 Full Pc' />Spike Video Game Awards, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most significant video games of all time. Over 6. 5 million copies of Half Life 2 were sold at retail by December 2. Steam sales. As of February 2. Half Life 2 had sold over 1. Gameplayedit. A screenshot of the player engaging a group of antlions with a pulse rifle. Along the bottom of the screen, the players health, suit charge level, and their ammunition are displayed. Like its predecessor, Half Life 2 is a single player first person shooter broken into several chapters, permanently casting the player as protagonist Gordon Freeman. The sequel has similar mechanics as Half Life, including health and weapon systems and periodic physics puzzles, except with the newer Source engine and improved graphics. The player also starts without items, slowly building up their arsenal over the course of the game. Despite the games mainly linear nature, much effort was put into making exploration rewarding and interesting many optional areas can be missed or avoided. A diverse set of enemies is present, which usually require being approached with different tactics some coordinate in groups to out maneuver or out position the player others, such as the Manhack, fly directly at the player through small openings and tight corridors. Others use predictable but powerful attacks, while others hide before swiftly attacking the player. Gordon can kill most enemies with his weapons, or make use of indirect means, exploiting environmental hazards such as explosive pressurized canisters, gas fires or improvised traps. For some portions of the game, Gordon can be joined by up to four armed Resistance soldiers or medics, and can send his team further from him or call them back. Many of the games new features utilize its detailed physics simulation. Two sections of the game involve driving vehicles. Instead of button orientated puzzles from Half Life, environmental puzzles are also introduced with makeshift mechanical systems, revolving around the players new ability to pick up, move, and place objects. Solutions involve objects physical properties, such as shape, weight, and buoyancy. For example In chapter three, Route Kanal, the player is required to stack cinder blocks on a makeshift see saw ramp to proceed over a wall. Alternatively, the player can build a crude staircase with the blocks, so the puzzle may be solved in multiple ways. Part way through the game, Gordon acquires the Gravity Gun, which allows him to draw distant objects towards himself or forcefully push them away, as well as the ability to manipulate larger and heavier objects that he cannot control without the weapon. These abilities are required to solve puzzles later in the game, and can also be used to great effect in combat, as any non static object within proximity to the player has the potential to be used as a makeshift defense, such as a file cabinet, or a deadly projectile, such as a gasoline can or buzzsaw blade. The game never separates the player with pre rendered cutscenes or events the story proceeds via exposition from other characters and in world events, and the player is able to control Gordon for the entirety of the game. Much of the backstory to the game is simply alluded to, or told through the environment. Some years after Gordon Freeman and other scientists accidentally opened a portal to a dimension of hostile aliens at the Black Mesa Research Facility, Freeman is awoken from stasis by the mysterious G Man. The portal attracted the attention of the Combine, a technologically superior multidimensional empire which conquered Earth in seven hours. The Combine have implemented a brutal police state by biologically assimilating humans and other species, and preventing humans from breeding via a suppression field. The G Man inserts Gordon into a train arriving at City 1. Combine Citadel, where Dr. Wallace Breen, the former Black Mesa administrator who negotiated Earths surrender, governs as the Combines puppet ruler. After eluding Combine forces, Gordon joins resistance members including Barney Calhoun, a former Black Mesa security guard working undercover as a Combine police officer Dr. Eli Vance, former Black Mesa scientist and leader of the resistance Alyx Vance, Elis daughter and Dr. Kleiner, an eccentric Black Mesa scientist. After a failed attempt to teleport to the resistance base, Black Mesa East, from Kleiners makeshift laboratory, Gordon progresses on foot through the citys canal system. He obtains an airboat and battles his way to Black Mesa East, several miles from the city. Gordon is reintroduced to Eli and meets another resistance scientist, Dr. Judith Mossman. 6 Alyx introduces Gordon to her pet robot D0g and gives him a gravity gun, an instrument which can manipulate large objects. Black Mesa East comes under Combine attack, and Eli and Mossman are taken to Nova Prospekt, a Combine prison. Separated from Alyx, Gordon detours through the zombie infested town of Ravenholm, assisted by its last survivor, Father Grigori. Escaping the town, Gordon discovers a resistance outpost, and uses a customized dune buggy to travel a crumbling coastal road to Nova Prospekt, encountering Combine patrols and helping the resistance fend off raids. Gordon lays siege to Nova Prospekt by using pheromone pods to command the hordes of alien antlions that infest the coast. He reunites with Alyx in the prison and they locate Eli, but discover that Mossman is a Combine informant. Before they can stop her, Mossman teleports herself and Eli back to City 1. Citadel. The Combine teleporter explodes as Gordon and Alyx use it to escape Nova Prospekt. Returning to Kleiners lab, Gordon and Alyx learn that the teleporter malfunctioned and that a week has passed. During their absence, the resistance has mobilized against the Combine. In battle, Alyx is captured by the Combine and taken to the Citadel.