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Half-Life 2

2004 • Valve • ESRB M

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Genres
Mature contentShooterActionScience fictionHorror
Franchises
Half-Life
1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. NOW. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around them, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies.
Critics7 critic reviews
7.9/10
Players3,449 IGDB players
9.0/10
To finish the story
14h
Your rating

Should You Play It?

Great fit if you want

To be frightened on purpose
Gunplay at the centre of it
A game to play by yourself

Think twice if you want

Something you can play relaxed
A third-person camera
What it feels like
  • Tense
  • Combat-focused
  • Solo
  • First-person
Time commitment
Main journey
14h
Completionist
20h

Moderate. About a week of evenings.

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Rated
ESRB MPEGI 16USK 18ACB MA 15+GRAC 19+ClassInd 18

ESRB: Blood, Intense Violence, Blood and Gore

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How Long It Takes

Rushing it
9 hours
Normally
14 hours
Completionist
20 hours

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Half-Life 2

Game of the Year Edition

2005

The critics agree, Half-Life 2 has been named PC GAME OF THE YEAR by over 35 organizations worldwide. Play the game that set a new benchmark in gaming with its startling realism, digital actors, advanced AI, and physical gameplay. + Also Includes: Counter-Strike: Source Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Half-Life: Source

PC

Collector's Edition

2004

1998. Half-Life sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. NOW. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around them, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies. Half-Life 2 Collectors Edition Box Content: - Game - T-Shirt - Hint Book

PC

Story

Gordon Freeman is brought out of stasis by the G-Man, who inserts him into a train arriving at City 17. After arriving at the station and eluding Combine forces, Gordon joins Lambda resistance members including Barney Calhoun, a former Black Mesa security guard now working undercover as a Combine CP officer, and Alyx Vance, the daughter of one of Gordon's former colleagues, Dr. Eli Vance. After a failed attempt to teleport Gordon to Black Mesa East from Dr. Kleiner's makeshift laboratory, Gordon, re-equipped with the HEV suit and a crowbar, is forced to embark on foot through the city's old canal system. After obtaining an airboat, he battles his way to Black Mesa East, several miles from the city. Gordon is reintroduced to Eli and meets Dr. Judith Mossman. Alyx introduces Gordon to her large pet robot D0g and gives him a "Gravity Gun", a weapon which allows Gordon to pick up and move any large object with ease. Black Mesa East soon comes under Combine attack and Eli and Mossman are captured to be taken to a Combine prison, Nova Prospekt. Gordon and Alyx are forced to take separate paths to Nova Prospekt; Gordon takes a detour through the town of Ravenholm, receiving help from its last survivor, Father Grigori. After making his way through the town and a mine, Gordon makes his way to a Resistance outpost. Gordon is provided with a Dune Buggy, which he uses to travel along a crumbling coastal road to Nova Prospekt. Along the way, Gordon encounters frequent Combine patrols, and helps one of the resistance leaders, Colonel Odessa Cubbage, to defend a Resistance base from a Combine gunship. After crossing an antlion-infested beach, Gordon enters Nova Prospekt, where he is reunited with Alyx. They manage to locate Eli, but also discover that Mossman is a Combine informant. Before they can stop her, she teleports herself and Eli back to City 17's Citadel. The Combine teleporter explodes as Gordon and Alyx use it to escape Nova Prospekt. Upon reaching Kleiner's lab, a shaken Dr. Kleiner reveals to Gordon and Alyx that they were caught in a "slow teleport", during which a week had passed. In their absence, the Resistance, who heard about what had happened at Nova Prospekt, has mobilized against the Combine, turning City 17 into a battleground. During the fighting, Alyx is captured by the Combine and taken to the Citadel, and Gordon fights through the city with the aid of D0g and Barney to reach it. Inside the Citadel, he is caught in a Combine confiscation chamber that destroys all of his weapons except for the Gravity Gun, the energy enhancing its capabilities and allowing Gordon to escape and dispatch platoons of Combine soldiers. Eventually, Gordon is captured riding in a Combine transport pod and is taken to Dr. Breen's office, where he and Dr. Mossman are waiting with Eli and Alyx in captivity. Dr. Breen begins to explain his plans for further conquest of the humans by the Combine, contrary to what he had told Dr. Mossman. Angered, Mossman frees Gordon, Alyx, and Eli before Breen teleports them off-world. Dr. Breen tries to escape through a portal, but Gordon pursues him and destroys the portal reactor with the super-charged Gravity Gun. Breen appears to be annihilated in the resulting explosion. Just before Gordon and Alyx are presumably met with a similar fate, time is frozen. The G-Man reappears, praising Gordon for his actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Making vague mention of "offers for [Gordon's] services", the G-Man places him back into stasis.

Series

Part of the Half-Life series. 2 more games here.

  • Half-Life
  • Half-Life: Alyx

Details

Release date
16 November 2004
Developer
Valve
Engine
Source
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Themes
Action, Science fiction, Horror
Genres
Shooter
Platforms
XBOX, PS3, Linux, Android, PC, Mac, X360
Critic score
7.97 critic reviews • Source: IGDB
Player score
9.03,449 IGDB players • Source: IGDB
Combined score
8.5critics and players blended, 3,456 ratings • Source: IGDB
Series
Half-Life
Type
Main Game
Rated for (ESRB)
Blood, Intense Violence, Blood and Gore
Rated for (PEGI)
Violence
Rated for (GRAC)
Violence
Rated for (ClassInd)
Violência (Violence)
Also released as
Half-Life 2: Episode One (Standalone), Half-Life 2: Episode Two (Standalone), Return to Ravenholm (Standalone), The Orange Box (Bundle), Valve Complete Pack (Bundle)
Companies
Valve (Developer, Publisher), NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios (Publisher, Porting), Electronic Arts (Publisher, Porting), Sierra Entertainment (Publisher)
Also known as
HL2, Half Life 2, HL 2, HλLF-LIFE², hl2.exe

Release Dates

Android
May 12, 2014
X360
Oct 10, 2007
X360
Oct 09, 2007
PS3
Dec 14, 2007
PS3
Dec 11, 2007
PC
Nov 16, 2004
PS3
Dec 20, 2007
Linux
May 09, 2013
Mac
May 26, 2010
PC
Dec 02, 2005
X360
Oct 19, 2007
X360
May 22, 2008
PC
Nov 16, 2004
XBOX
Nov 18, 2005
PS3
Dec 11, 2007
X360
Oct 25, 2007
XBOX
Nov 15, 2005

Platforms and Makers

Xbox logo

Xbox • gen 6

PlayStation 3 logo

PlayStation 3 • gen 7

Linux logo

Linux

Android logo

Android

PC (Microsoft Windows) logo

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Mac logo

Mac

Xbox 360 logo

Xbox 360 • gen 7

Source logo

Source

Valve logo

Valve • Developer, Publisher

NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios logo

NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios • Publisher, Porting

Electronic Arts logo

Electronic Arts • Publisher, Porting

Sierra Entertainment logo

Sierra Entertainment • Publisher

Engine

Source

Source combines leading-edge character animation, advanced AI, real-world physics, shader-based rendering, and a highly extensible development environment to produce some of the most popular computer and console games. These games deliver the most intense, visually-stunning gameplay experiences on modern hardware, while scaling smoothly on older systems, enabling developers to reach a diverse range of gamers.

Popularity

24hr Hours Watched
0.000
Playing
0.001
Postitive Reviews
0.002
Negative Reviews
0.000
Visits
0.000
Want to Play
0.001
Global Top Sellers
0.000
Total Reviews
0.002
Played
0.002
24hr Peak Players
0.000

Languages

Interface
Japanese, Italian, Russian, Chinese (Traditional), Finnish, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Thai, Korean, Spanish (Spain), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, English, French, German, Ukrainian
Audio
Korean, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain), Russian, English, French
Subtitles
English, Ukrainian

Tags

alienszombiesdystopianalternate historyrun and gunrebellionsteambuildingportalsteleportationsilent protagonistalien invasion

Characters

11 characters IGDB has catalogued for Half-Life 2.

Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2

Alyx Vance

Barney Calhoun

Citizens & Misc. characters

Dr. Eli Vance

Dr. Isaac Kleiner

Dr. Judith Mossman

Dr. Wallace Breen

Father Grigori

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