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I'm bored so I decided to have a go at writng down how i would like HL3 to open. Here goes...
Half Life 3
You (Gordon Freeman) are in the dark room/place where Gman leaves you at the end of Half Life 2. What seem to be stars stream past all around you or perhaps it is you who is moving. You can look around but cannot move yet.
A white rectangle appears out of nowhere to your left about 10 feet in front of you. Gman walks in, still in his suit and still carrying his infamous briefcase.
He approaches you and begins to talk
‘Mr Freeman… I must apologise for leaving you for such a long time. I hope your second stay here hasn’t been too… un-comfort-able. Your destruction of the Combine citadel on earth had… unexpected results and I have been rather busy of late, attending to… other matters.
You have proved yourself to be an invaluable asset and I hope you will continue to do so. I’m sure you have a lot of… questions to ask but…’
Gman glances at watch on wrist and smiles.
‘Time waits for no man Mr Freeman. And I have such sights to show you.’
*teleportation noises*
There is a bright flash of white light.
You are standing in a graveyard on what appears to be earth. It is raining.
Thunder crackles in the distance. All around you there are ruined and half destroyed buildings. In the distance the remnants of the Combine Citadel you destroyed still stand but it barely reaches 50ft. The sky is dark and brooding.
You are standing in front of a large memorial in the graveyard. Gman points to the memorial. As you read through it you see the names
Eli Vance
Dr Kleiner
Alyx Vance
Gman beings to speak
‘Look around you Mr Freeman. I must commend on your work; you did an excellent job…’
Gman smiles at you
‘We all have to make sacrifices Mr Freeman… I assumed you’d want to know which ones you made.’
There is another flash of white light accompanied by teleportation noises.
You are standing next to Gman on a small hill overlooking a huge purple lake. The sky is a very pale blue and thin red clouds are strewn across it. The ground is covered with sand and small clusters of red flowers are growing on amongst the sand. In the distance there is large mountain range coated in snow.
A Strider is standing on the lakeshore seemingly watching over about twenty naked, thin, pale blue humanoid like creatures with grey collars around their necks and wrists. They appear to be harvesting a green plant growing in the shallows of the lake. They pull the plant up from the water and trek wearily up the beach to a Combine Dropship. The Dropship is carrying a large basket similar to the ones used for carrying troops. They place the clumps of the plant in the basket and then walk back to the beach.
The creatures are obviously in pain and very tired. One of them falls over on his way up to the Dropship dropping his clump of the plant. Two of the creatures rush over to help him. The Strider immediately spears one of them with its foot and shoots the other two dead.
The rest of the creatures look on in a mix of shock, horror and sadness. The Strider makes one of those strange noises signalling for the creatures to get back to work. Suddenly a huge swarm of these pale, blue humanoids swarm out of the lake. These ones don’t have the collars on their necks and wrists. They are also a much darker blue and more muscular. They are armed with strange guns that fire blue energy bolts and several have long ropes. The humanoids fire at the Strider and at first it seems to do no damage. The Strider fires an energy blast at them killing lots of the humanoids.
However, one of the humanoids manages to lasso the Striders leg. Now the slaves are joining in the fight and they pull the Strider over into the water, swarm on top of it and rip it to pieces.
The creatures began to cheer and run towards to the Dropship. It takes off and begins to fly away above the lake. However, once it is about halfway across the lake a huge beam of blue energy fires up from beneath surface totally vaporising the Dropship. The creatures began to cheer and hug each other.
Another flash of brightlight and teleportation noises.
You and Gman are now standing in front of a huge Combine building, similar to the Citadel but much, much wider. The sky is grey and covered in cloud. The ground is muddy. There isn’t anything organic in site. All around the building are the remnants of a futuristic city.
A huge door leads into the Citadel. It is guarded by Striders and Crab Synths. Gunships fly overhead into large entrances set high up in the building.
There are some strange creatures repairing a small hole in the wall of the building. They have hollow sunken faces and short poles instead of feet like the Stalkers and a row of three holes in the left side of their ribcage. Upon closer inspection you see they bear an uncanny resemblance to the Shock Troopers of Race X…
Half Life 3
You (Gordon Freeman) are in the dark room/place where Gman leaves you at the end of Half Life 2. What seem to be stars stream past all around you or perhaps it is you who is moving. You can look around but cannot move yet.
A white rectangle appears out of nowhere to your left about 10 feet in front of you. Gman walks in, still in his suit and still carrying his infamous briefcase.
He approaches you and begins to talk
‘Mr Freeman… I must apologise for leaving you for such a long time. I hope your second stay here hasn’t been too… un-comfort-able. Your destruction of the Combine citadel on earth had… unexpected results and I have been rather busy of late, attending to… other matters.
You have proved yourself to be an invaluable asset and I hope you will continue to do so. I’m sure you have a lot of… questions to ask but…’
Gman glances at watch on wrist and smiles.
‘Time waits for no man Mr Freeman. And I have such sights to show you.’
*teleportation noises*
There is a bright flash of white light.
You are standing in a graveyard on what appears to be earth. It is raining.
Thunder crackles in the distance. All around you there are ruined and half destroyed buildings. In the distance the remnants of the Combine Citadel you destroyed still stand but it barely reaches 50ft. The sky is dark and brooding.
You are standing in front of a large memorial in the graveyard. Gman points to the memorial. As you read through it you see the names
Eli Vance
Dr Kleiner
Alyx Vance
Gman beings to speak
‘Look around you Mr Freeman. I must commend on your work; you did an excellent job…’
Gman smiles at you
‘We all have to make sacrifices Mr Freeman… I assumed you’d want to know which ones you made.’
There is another flash of white light accompanied by teleportation noises.
You are standing next to Gman on a small hill overlooking a huge purple lake. The sky is a very pale blue and thin red clouds are strewn across it. The ground is covered with sand and small clusters of red flowers are growing on amongst the sand. In the distance there is large mountain range coated in snow.
A Strider is standing on the lakeshore seemingly watching over about twenty naked, thin, pale blue humanoid like creatures with grey collars around their necks and wrists. They appear to be harvesting a green plant growing in the shallows of the lake. They pull the plant up from the water and trek wearily up the beach to a Combine Dropship. The Dropship is carrying a large basket similar to the ones used for carrying troops. They place the clumps of the plant in the basket and then walk back to the beach.
The creatures are obviously in pain and very tired. One of them falls over on his way up to the Dropship dropping his clump of the plant. Two of the creatures rush over to help him. The Strider immediately spears one of them with its foot and shoots the other two dead.
The rest of the creatures look on in a mix of shock, horror and sadness. The Strider makes one of those strange noises signalling for the creatures to get back to work. Suddenly a huge swarm of these pale, blue humanoids swarm out of the lake. These ones don’t have the collars on their necks and wrists. They are also a much darker blue and more muscular. They are armed with strange guns that fire blue energy bolts and several have long ropes. The humanoids fire at the Strider and at first it seems to do no damage. The Strider fires an energy blast at them killing lots of the humanoids.
However, one of the humanoids manages to lasso the Striders leg. Now the slaves are joining in the fight and they pull the Strider over into the water, swarm on top of it and rip it to pieces.
The creatures began to cheer and run towards to the Dropship. It takes off and begins to fly away above the lake. However, once it is about halfway across the lake a huge beam of blue energy fires up from beneath surface totally vaporising the Dropship. The creatures began to cheer and hug each other.
Another flash of brightlight and teleportation noises.
You and Gman are now standing in front of a huge Combine building, similar to the Citadel but much, much wider. The sky is grey and covered in cloud. The ground is muddy. There isn’t anything organic in site. All around the building are the remnants of a futuristic city.
A huge door leads into the Citadel. It is guarded by Striders and Crab Synths. Gunships fly overhead into large entrances set high up in the building.
There are some strange creatures repairing a small hole in the wall of the building. They have hollow sunken faces and short poles instead of feet like the Stalkers and a row of three holes in the left side of their ribcage. Upon closer inspection you see they bear an uncanny resemblance to the Shock Troopers of Race X…
