What are metrocops ?

[Sprafa]

Now I've d\l the HL2 skin for WMP for some time now and hv been seeing the artwork since then.
Now according to the artwork the Metrocops are this.
Then what are the Combine's ?
Remember that Valve never said these were the Combines they just talked about them and the comm. asummed they were Combines. Could we be wrong?

 

[PvtRyan]

I think (and I'm pretty sure of it) that metrocops are just a kind of combine soldiers, there are multiple types of combine soldiers. Metrocops are one of them.

This is yet another form:
http://www.halflife2.net/image_files/concept_cop1.jpg

 

[CrazyHarij]

I look at Metrocops as the Bad Mother****er version of normal Combine troopers. They've got heavier armor , better guns and look cooler. That concept image especially looks cool.

 

[Brian Damage]

Oh? I was thinking that the Metrocops were like the Combine version of normal police, whereas the Combine soldiers were more like SWAT team dudes.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Yes the metro cops are the weeker version *i think*. Then we have seen two other types of combine i think. There is a really heavy version in the concept art and then the type you see in the tunnels video where he jumps down and says hold it right there...


I thinnk thats it anyway..

 

[Sprafa]

The E3 narrator says at some point «...Invasion of the Combine...».
Now if the Metrocops are the Sec. Forces of City 17 and are Combine why would he call it invasion. If they were already there and they allied to Xen when thay started messing all up so he should call it a rebellion.
But if the Metrocops are Combine the they must have been «assimilated» into it ( if the Combines are actually «assimilated» people) or The Combine assigned them as municipal defense for City 17 after taking control (lk troops in Iraq)

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

I think its fairly safe to say that no one here has any real answers


Aww well, it can't be long untill we all know I don't suppose

 

[Sprafa]

What about if Hl2 is one has one of those stories that open more doors than closes lk Silent Hill 2.

I mean Hl3 is on the making and maybe they would do smthing lk it.

 

[Orange]

gah, that would drive me nuts if it turned out few questions were answered about what we were already curious about.

For instance if they introduced new mysteries, but didn't address g-man, the original incident, Nilhilanth's warning, etc.

rant est fini : )

 

[Wilco]

Well I thought the metrocops were like the Police of City-17.

If not then whats the third "race" ? Halflife was good because you had 2 enemies, who were enemies themselves. None of this the enemy of my enemy is my friend lark. I doubt they've dropped that concept for HL2, It would be a shame if they havent.

I'm pretty sure I remember Somewhere the "race" list was read out as Resistance Combine and Metrocops, and I got the impression they were seperate from the Combine.

Also, those drones that they have (this was talked about, and there a pic somewhere) that are used to "control" the population. They have a central Eye that turns to red when "angered". Why would teh Combine have those, as they are rampaging through the city destroying everything they see anyway, theres not really much use.

Now that pic is remarkably close to Combine Soldiers, so unless theres a remarkable coincidence then the Combine must be taking them over, like a parasite.

That is my current guess at the situation in City-17

 

[Wilco]

Of course, they might just be Geordie / Parisian Transport Police

 

[The Dark Elf]

Oh? I was thinking that the Metrocops were like the Combine version of normal police, whereas the Combine soldiers were more like SWAT team dudes.

Yep thats probably right, by the sounds of it the combine run the show and the metrocops are just the local cops in fancy combine style uniforms and with weapons.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Yep thats probably right, by the sounds of it the combine run the show and the metrocops are just the local cops in fancy combine style uniforms and with weapons.

The metrocops are the oppessors of the populace, they beat people and search them etc, they are Combine, but the peace-keepers, as opposed to soldiers

 

[OCybrManO]

Did they ever say "the Combine" was a group of people/aliens? Some of the previews I have read mention something along the lines of the resources of Earth being harvested by the aliens (whether or not they are true is open to debate). Also, a "combine" is a farming vehicle used to harvest things like wheat (at least, I think it's for wheat... I don't know much about farming). It is possible that the combine refers to the huge machine that is slowly tearing through the city (harvesting the buildings?).

 

[The Dark Elf]

Did they ever say "the Combine" was a group of people/aliens? Some of the previews I have read mention something along the lines of the resources of Earth being harvested by the aliens (whether or not they are true is open to debate). Also, a "combine" is a farming vehicle used to harvest things like wheat (at least, I think it's for wheat... I don't know much about farming). It is possible that the combine refers to the huge machine that is slowly tearing through the city (harvesting the buildings?).

Combine Harvesters are named that, IIRC because they combine harvesting with sorting out the wheat or something for spraying through that thing at the rear into containers when they've done harvesting.

 

[Wilco]

I've just had a terrible thought of what the Superweapon that Wins back earth is going to be........

 

[Sprafa]

I've just had a terrible thought of what the Superweapon that Wins back earth is going to be........

What? Now tell us all

 

[NC|7]

What? Now tell us all

Metrocops are like the wallmart security of the combine, the combine have ranks just like a regular army

And you can rest asured that the biped combine soldiers are not alien

I am pretty sure i know what the story of hl2 will be, it will have a resemblence to that movie "soilent green" i believe but with a much darker perpose

 

[Feath]

Metrocops are like the wallmart security of the combine, the combine have ranks just like a regular army

And you can rest asured that the biped combine soldiers are not alien

I am pretty sure i know what the story of hl2 will be, it will have a resemblence to that movie "soilent green" i believe but with a much darker perpose

Please say you aren't basing that on anything you got from the leak.

 

[Brian Damage]

I was wondering about that, Fev, after he indicated that he had the SDK in the other thead...

 

[OCybrManO]

HALF-LIFE 2 IS MADE OF PEOPLE!

 

[Brian Damage]

ROTFLMFAO!

You made me spit out my cookie, dude! Now there's soggy crumbs all over the monitor!

 

[Axyon]

I think (and I'm pretty sure of it) that metrocops are just a kind of combine soldiers, there are multiple types of combine soldiers. Metrocops are one of them.

This is yet another form:
http://www.halflife2.net/image_files/concept_cop1.jpg

Well, we've already seen these guys here, so yeah, by the looks of it they're one of the heavier types of Combine. They pack an OICW and some serious duty armour.

 

[Brian Damage]

And wasn't there a mention somewhere in the previews of one that wears a suit of powered armour?

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Yeah I rememeber that! Sounds great

 

[Brian Damage]

And it has a camera tentacle thingie too...

No hidin' from the big bad Combine dude...