The game is set during May 200- in a remote area of New Mexico, USA at the Black Mesa Research Facility a fictional complex that bears many similarities to both the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Area 51. After an experiment that goes horribly awry when an unexpected Resonance Cascade (an apparently completely fictitious occurrence) rips dimensional seams that devastate the facility, Gordon must fight to escape the now alien-infested facility as creatures from another world - known as Xen - subsequently enter in ever-increasing numbers through these dimensional seams. Gordon Freeman, a recent MIT graduate in theoretical physics, and also a recent employee at Black Mesa. N Half-Life, players assume the role of the protagonist, Dr. Designed for Microsoft Windows, the game uses a heavily modified version of the Quake engine, called GoldSrc. According to Marc Laidlaw, it was cut so Valve could focus more on their facial animation system. It is a person fully clad in a rubber suit with a brown apron, with his face behind a gasmask. The player takes the perspective of scientist Gordon Freeman. The Gas Mask Citizen is the oldest known revision of Half Life 2's citizen model. At the beginning of the episode, the G-Man appears once more to Gordon, but this time, he is interrupted by the appearance of a group of chanting, purple-glowing. This beta release shows that this game can end up being quite good when it's.

Half-Life, stylized as HλLF-LIFE, is a science fiction first-person shooter developed and published by Valve. Half-Life 2: Episode One rejoins Gordon and Alyx as they attempt to escape from City 17, doomed by the destruction of the Citadel's dark fusion reactor at the end of Half-Life 2. He is involved in many different Half-Life 2 modifications, as his Web site.

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