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The US Government provided Black Mesa with funding and contracts, not to mention the death squads sent to contain the facility. Obviously they played quite a significant role in the BMRF's history. Did you pay close attention to your surroundings at HL1's start? At least two other scientists...

The Advisors would have already known about G-Man's involvement from Administrator Breen if they didn't know already. :|

I'll take the Combine Advisor anyday; In addition, control of an Advisor leads to control of all other Combine assets by default, including Citadels. :cheese:

But then again, Father Grigori and Odessa Cubbage got their own skins while not serving major roles in the HL2 saga. Therefore one would think Sheck and Griggs would have deserved the same treatment too. My other points of concern are: -The Guardian feels more like a cheap rehash of the...

Here's my rough history of G-Man's involvement in this whole mess:

Well unless G-Man could forsee Dr. Vance developing a new weapon that would help give a mortal blow to the Combine, then technically his usefullness is at an end. If Eli could provide nothing else beyond the Gravity Gun to further G-Man's ultimate goals, why should G-Man bother saving Eli? In...

The Overwatch covers the entire Earth, and thus it requires standardized weaponry and ammo all throughout their jurisdiction. Since apparently the Combine liked the MP7 design the best, they adopted it as their official SMG while designing their own version of the AR.

Killing off Kleiner wouldn't have produced the same emotional effect as the death of the fatherly Eli.

Why don't we honor Magnusson by using a microwave to blow up our own casseroles? :P

Who knows, the Black Mesa Crater can be a random destination for the next G-Man trip-out sequence. :D

On the other hand, Aperture Science already f***ed up with GLaDOS. The incident with that AI along with Eli's grave misgivings suggest that the Borealis disappearence was yet another accident caused by Aperture scientists. We would have saw Universial Union forces at Black Mesa if this was the...

Bugbait is useless if there are no Antlions around, and no further Antlions appear in EP2 after the Guardian battle. Therefore it's reasonable to assume that no time was wasted extracting bugbait.

BM's Automated Announcement system has more in common with the Overwatch announcer than GLaDOS in that the first two are not sentient programs.

I would be rather perplexed to suddenly hear a voice which no other character has, and might not comprehend that Freeman was actually that voice. If the player was meant to hear Freeman's dialogue, we should have heard him speak from the first game. Since that hasn't happened, VALVe might as...

HL obviously fails to achieve total reality, but that doesn't stop VALVe from making things as realistic-looking as possible. In this day and age within the HL saga, it would look silly and out of place to have a random Combine soldier carrying around a chaingun by himself. So realism can't just...