

Source provides major enhancements in Characters: Advanced facial animation system delivers the most sophisticated in-game characters ever seen.

The intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source®, Valve’s new proprietary engine technology. The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. 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. The G-Man, as he's come to be called, seals Gordon in stasis far from Earth, thought, and time itself.NOW. Gordon's heroics catch the attention of a sinister interdimensional bureaucrat. Thanks to an experimental hazard suit, Gordon is able to navigate this violent confusion of creatures, staff, and homicidal soldiers, finally reaching then destroying what appears to be the monstrous source of the infestation. Unfortunately, their methodical killing spree targets every human witness as well. Government forces quickly arrive to eliminate the alien threat. Alien creatures from distant alien hellholes scramble through a shattered dimensional barrier and set about butchering the Black Mesa staff as a prelude to exterminating life on Earth. A simple research assistant at the Black Mesa Research Facility, Gordon is thrust into the center of a cosmic war by a teleportation experiment gone badly wrong. Half-Life introduced the world to bespectacled young physicist Gordon Freeman, Ph.D.
