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Depiction of the Combine's Civil Protection. Certain elements of the Combine's appearance, such as that of the Advisors, are inspired by the works of Frank Herbert. [1] The towering Striders seen throughout Half-Life 2 and its subsequent episodes are based directly on the Martian tripods of the H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds, where Martians invade Victorian England, using the tripods ...
In December 2008, Valve announced that the two main Half-Life games had sold 15.8 million units in retail (9.3m for the first, 6.5m for the second), while the Half-Life expansions [85] had sold 1.9 million (Opposing Force: 1.1 million, Blue Shift: 800,000) and Half-Life 2 expansions 1.4 million units (all for Episode One) by the end of November ...
In the Half-Life saga, Gordon Freeman is a silent protagonist who, despite lacking formal weapon training, survives a chaotic inter-dimensional incident at the Black Mesa Research Facility. In Half-Life 2, after being kept in stasis for nearly two decades, Freeman battles the Combine Empire to liberate Earth. He gains legendary status and ...
In Half-Life: Blue Shift, the playable Barney progresses through Black Mesa to escape the events of the Resonance Cascade and is able to do so, in contrast to Gordon Freeman and Adrian Shephard, who are held in stasis. In Half-Life 2, Barney works as a mole for the Lambda Resistance in the Combine Civil Protection Forces. He provides the player ...
Combine car, or combine, a type of railroad car which combines sections for passengers and freight; Combine painting, a type of artwork; COMBINE, a computational biology initiative; Combine (Half-Life), a fictional alien enemy force from the Half-Life video game series; The Combine (group), an organized crime group; The Combine (Australian film ...
The Combine in Half-Life 2 does literally what Cheif Bromden's imaginary Combine does; it demasculinates people and robs them of all love of life. Citizen Premier 08:01, 13 July 2006 (UTC) I really like the Ken Kesey idea: like you said, it meshes perfectly.
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Half-Life 2: Episode One was released in 2006, followed by Episode Two in 2007, ... The antagonist was a female Combine officer named Hahn; in one proposed ending, ...