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Half-Life 2’s intense real-time gameplay is only made possible by Source®, Valve’s new proprietary engine technology. And many people who are important to him count on him. Freeman is cast in the unenviable role of saving the world from the injustice he unleashed at Black Mesa. The player takes back the crowbar of the scientist Gordon Freeman, who is on an alien-infested earth that is being pecked to the bone, its resources are exhausted and its population is dwindling. It opens the door to a world where the player’s presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to behavior and the emotions of friends and foes.
Half-Life 2 takes on the tension, challenge, and visceral charge of the original, adding new realism and responsiveness. Valve’s debut title wins more than 50 awards for Game of the Year on the Road to Best PC Game Ever by PC Gamer and launches a franchise with more than eight million retail stores sold worldwide. HALF-LIFE shocked the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, haunting storytelling.