Was there any reference to Dr. Breen in Half Life?

[Xendance]

The reason I am asking this is because I was reading the Prima game guide for Half Life 2, and it says:

Alyx Vance introduces you to a propaganda poster of the droning Administrator you've been attempting to ignore: Dr. Breen. That name rings a bell - he's the old Black Mesa administrator!

So I was just wondering, or is Half Life 2 the first time we hear off Breen?

 

[Barnz]

Half-Life 2 introduces Dr. Breen for the first time in the series.

 

[Xendance]

Oh well then Prima is trying to confuse me.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

It's talking from Gordon's perspective, and Gordon would remember Dr Breen. It's just trying to make it sound a bit more dramatic.

 

[Apocalypse89]

There are cryptic references to "The Administrator" several times at the beginning of the game, but otherwise you don't hear Breen's name or physically see him until HL2. I still remember many people believing that the G-Man was the Administrator.

 

[Sloth]

There was alot of linking visualy to the G-Man being the Admin during HL1 but Alyx's comment during "Red Letter Day" is the first time Breen is mentioned as the Admin of Black Mesa.

 

[Paulaner]

Breen in real world

I am going slightly off topic. Anyway, don't you think that Malcom McDowell would make for a wonderful Dr. Breen in a Half Life movie?

 

[Narvi]

Dude, make a new topic. Something like HL2 casting or something.

And there were many references to the Administrator being the one responsible for the resonance cascade.

 

[Paulaner]

Dude, make a new topic. Something like HL2 casting or something.

No real need to do it. I was just dropping a short diversion

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Half Life movie

*bursts out laughing* hahaahaha...oh mercy. *wipes tear*

 

[Paulaner]

*bursts out laughing* hahaahaha...oh mercy. *wipes tear*

Halo movie in production. Now, that's gonna make me laugh to tears!

 

[Mahalis]

Halo movie in production. Now, that's gonna make me laugh to tears!

Whoa, creepy. Just as I read that, my iPod started playing the Halo theme.
Movie's still gonna be terrible though. Doom, plus armor suits and dramatic space scenes and minus The Rock.

 

[Planetary]

Yeah, Breen as mentioned as the "Administrator" quite a few times, though never by his name.

 

[Solaris]

Breen can't be, in my Op4 manual a letter is signed by the administrator by the letters 'L.M.'

 

[Ennui]

I don't remember what the Op4 manual's letter is about, but are you sure it's the Black Mesa administrator writing it, given that it's addressed to Adrian Shepard?

 

[Asknoone]

Manual's ain't canon.

 

[Ennui]

I could have sworn I heard one of the Valve guys saying that the HL manual was canon (with the letter from the admin in it).

 

[Asknoone]

Yeah, with "Alex Kleiner."

 

[Ennui]

lol it's been a while

 

[ríomhaire]

Wasn't Alex Kleiner from the strat guide? In the manual he's just called Dr. Kleiner.

And Sol, it's signed

Office of the Administrator
Civilian Recruitment Division
Black Mesa Research Facility

OTA: LM

in HL1. I have the OP4 manual in front of me and there's no letter in in, just Adrian's diary.

It's signed by someone in Breen's office, not by Breen. Probably just a secretary.

 

[Xendance]

I read LM is Marc Laidlaw backwards, or is this some kind of stupid thing like the G-man is Gordon Freeman...?

Anyway, yes I know "administrator" was talked about a few times in Half Life, but not by Dr. Breen.

 

[Cheomesh]

Who knows? Homers Hair and Ear on the right side of his head spell MG -- the cartoonist who draws him.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

the cartoonist who draws him.

Matt Groening. (last name rhymes with "complaining")

 

[Cheomesh]

...Yes.

 

[Tuskin]

Yeah, with "Alex Kleiner."

No thats a Strategy guide, not the manual.