Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Half-Life 2: Episode Two - Immediately after the fall of the Citadel, Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance leave the destroyed city to deliver information about the Alliance to the Resistance. The road lies through forests, tunnels and abandoned mines, and along the way the heroes stumble upon traces of someone else's war, which took place here long before them. The car becomes a separate travel companion: it is driven along the highway, put in for repairs, repelled from patrols and used as a battering ram. Open spaces alternate with cramped corridors, where you again have to count cartridges, look back at the sound of footsteps and solve simple mechanical problems with pipes and generators. The gravity gun has received much more reasons for use: saws, barrels, beams and pieces of equipment fly at opponents. The lantern now runs on its own battery, so light and treatment for the suit have to be saved separately, and not from the total energy reserve. Companions change as the story progresses: Alix helps in shootouts and hacking devices, Vortigaunts cover the hero where their own forces are few. In seven chapters, Alliance hunters, antlions and their larvae come across - different tactics work against them than against soldiers. Cover and heavy weapons help out against Alliance hunters: their bolts pierce concrete, but the vehicles themselves are vulnerable to the gravitational gun. In the ant grove, local lions become allies for a while, and then they attack the soldiers along with the hero. Supply caches can be found in unexpected places: boxes of ammunition and first aid kits are often found in the back of an overturned truck or behind a tightly closed door. For those who want to follow this road to the end and see how the story with data for the Resistance ends.