Before war Earth pretty ruined and in chaos. In addition to xen wildlife, there was also Portal Storms. Remember when blastwave from the Combine portal destroys bridge in ep2? Infrastructure, communications, resources, passages etc must have taken severe damage. Who wants to defend already...
1. Cruising with car + Inn battle, awesome!
2. View of combine crossing the bridge
3. Hunter's first coming, damn it was scary!
4. Rocket's launch. BTW didja notice how simply rocket's observation view had made? In cold war era there was no big flat screens and accurate cameras.
Did anyone notice some razor train coaches when driving on the rails escaping that hunter helicopter? Anyway there are no full razor trains in ep2. Maybe because they were running only Nova Prospect - Citadel line or their main station (Citadel) is down? Im stil wondering what was the...
Early or mid 08 would be perfect. This episode based system wont work if we have to always wait 1,5 years. Yeah I know its good to have fine and complete game but when first ep was relased, they hyped episode based relase system to be revolutionary. What we had now? 1,7 year waiting, few delays...
There has been lots of endings that i dont want to see even in my nightmares:
1. Gordon wakes up back in black mesa, where he's really just a janitor who had fallen a sleep on the job, it was all just a dream.
2. Confronting the Combine on their homeworld, Gordon realizes the shocking truth...
IMO Sniper rifle is just too cheesy, unbalanced and it must be nerfed if player can use it. Good firerate, deadly, accurate... everything. And we have this crossbow. Sure sniping enemies with real rifle would be cool but we will see about that!
- Blast Pit! That was so great and scary puzzle. The OP4 "Blast Pit" with that worm was ridiculous.
- Highway 17 resistance gate. Small puzzle, but nice.
- Water Hazard barrel puzzle
My favorite parts were Razor Train trip. I was then like "Damn fresh air, outdoor enviroments, safe!" Until it crashed and i found my self at the most annoying park hall ever. But Lowlife was good chapter too due the feeling when you get out to deserted streets.
Second favorite was the Exit...
How scanner really works? Ok they patrol areas in City 17 and take photos but example when Gordon comes in station, scanner takes a photo but then nothing happens. I mean there is the One Free Man in the city who has Messianic repution! Maybe guys in the scanners control room were taking a nap...
Id like to see:
- City 17 after the blast (no, i havent get bored to C17)
- More outdoor enviroments, countryside, railways, ruins, all the post-apocalyptic landscapes.
- New enemies, hunter is aok, but more Xen wildlife.
- Citizen Safezone
- "The North Project"
- Combine wasteland bases or...
My funniest experience was when fighting in City 17 tunnels after Alyx is taken by combine. There combine soldier was eaten by barnacle, it looked so stupid, soldier was firing barnacle while running straight into barnacle's tongue *Death*
I have always thinking that painters of those child pics are same who put Lambda tags and "born" tags to the city walls, so it's not propaganda, more like a ironic message of combine's baby policy.
OT but where do you guys hear child voices? In first chater?