
It’s one of the more intense sequences in gaming you’ll experience.Īfter blacking out, you’re rescued by Alyx, daughter of one of Gordon’s coworkers at Black Mesa. You’re unarmed, scared, and have no idea where you’re going. The entire opening sequence is beautifully written and immediately gives you a sense of the world-after being rescued from detention by your old friend Barney, you are immediately hunted by the Combine, traversing rooftops and stumbling into apartment buildings full of frightened subjugated humans in a desperate attempt to escape.

In this dystopic future, humans can’t breed. And that is why they won’t let humanity breed. Breen prattles on the TV screen about how “our benefactors” are only protecting us from ourselves. When you first enter the world of Half-Life 2, you watch as the gas-mask wearing Combine police herd humans like cattle while Dr.

Instead of a survivalist, Gordon Freeman is now a freedom fighter and a symbol of hope to humanity-perhaps the only truly “Free Man” left. Finally, the strongest of them scale to Small Building level+ through upscaling from Turrets.Ĭharacters within Half-Life can scale to Small Building level, through Gordon being able to fight monsters at this size, even harming them with his crowbar and basic weapons, which he can also tank shots from.Half-Life 2’s grim future resembles something out of The White Mountains trilogy or 1984. Mid and High-Tier characters such as those from Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2 sit at Building level.Ĭharacters within Portal can scale to Below Average Human, through these being objects with the incapability of attacking, numerous others scaling to Wall level with them scaling to Chell's durability. Various low-tier characters in the verse range from Unknown to Below Average Human to Wall level, and all the way up to Small Building level. Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal and Portal 2, centered on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.

Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve. The player usually assumes the role of Gordon Freeman (Half-Life 1 and 2) or other characters such as Barney Calhourn (Half-Life: Blue Shift) The games combine shooting combat, puzzles, and storytelling into a single game. Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter (FPS) games developed and published by Valve.
