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About Half Life 2

Earth has been defeated and is now ruled by aliens, with resources gone and people scattered. Gordon Freeman returns to a world changed by his past actions. He fights back and finds hope among those who resist.

• Play as Gordon Freeman and help a resistance group fight alien forces using weapons and advanced tools.
• Fight through action, movement challenges, and physics puzzles, including sections with an airboat and dune buggy.
• Meet realistic characters with detailed faces, set in believable environments with strong physics effects.
• Continue the story with Episodes One and Two, full‑featured expansions that follow the aftermath of the main campaign.
• Enter fast multiplayer battles in Deathmatch, where physics adds creative ways to defeat opponents.

Half Life 2 Reviews

Half-Life 2 has astonished us from start to finish. Valve has done to the FPS genre what restaurants in Chinatown do to ducks; shredded it, smothered it in a delicious sauce of their own devising, and served it up in a way which you simply couldn’t have imagined when looking at them in the pond.

Eurogamer

No other game does as many things as well as Half-Life 2; I had so much fun that I can forgive the game its abysmal ending. I was continually enthralled and amazed.

The New York Times

From its opening moments to its spectacular closing sequences, Half-Life 2 assaults you with a variety of gameplay styles and memorable moments, all executed with amazing precision.

GameSpy

Half Life 2 Editions

HALF LIFE 2 COMPLETE

Play the full Half-Life 2 saga with all episodes in one collection, a landmark sci‑fi FPS.

• Half-Life 2: Base Game
• Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
• Half-Life 2: Episode One
• Half-Life 2: Episode Two
• Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
• Half-Life Deathmatch: Source

HALF LIFE 2 COLLECTION

Discover the iconic sci‑fi FPS saga with Half-Life 2 Collection, including Episodes 1 and 2.

• Half-Life 2: Base Game
• Half-Life 2: Episode One
• Half-Life 2: Episode Two

HALF LIFE 2 GOTY

Half-Life 2 Game of the Year Edition includes these 4 must-have items:

• Half-Life 2
• Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
• Half-Life – Source
• Counter-Strike – Source

Minimum System Requirements:

• OS: Windows 7 / Vista / XP
• CPU: 1.7 Ghz
• RAM: 512 MB
• HDD: 6500 MB
• DirectX: 8.1

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  Slay the Spire 2 "may not be perfectly balanced yet," Half-Life writer and Valve veteran Erik Wolpaw says, but with 1,500 hours in the first game he has no doubt Mega Crit will pull it off

  
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  Hideo Kojima said Half-Life had a "kind of soul" which Japanese games lacked, and Metal Gear Solid 2 was directly inspired by Valve's classic FPS

  
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  Former Half-Life 2 writer calls out Epic CEO Tim Sweeney over layoffs, says Valve boss Gabe Newell is "better" than him at making "as much money as possible," anyway

  
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  Valve Is Experimenting With GenAI To Help With Situational Dialogue, Half-Life 2 Writer Says

  
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  Half-Life 2 writer Erik Wolpaw says some people at Valve are looking at AI tools, but he's not "worried about AI taking over creative writing" anytime soon

  
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  Half-Life 2 writer says Valve devs have "been looking" at gen AI for help with video game writing: "It's the one place where I feel like AI is worth investigating"

  
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  Beloved Half-Life zombie mod finally comes to Steam 22 years after it debuted

  
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  No Man's Sky adds Half-Life 2's gravity gun to your arsenal, and I can't believe it's taken almost ten years to get it

  
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  The Differences Between All The Versions Of Half-Life 2 Will Surprise You

  
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  Ex Valve designer reveals the door and big toe that retroactively broke Half-Life 2: "This isn't a normal bug - it appears to have traveled backwards in time and infected the original!"

  
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  With Half-Life ties and funding from Valve, this 2000 FPS never made it to Steam

  
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  Ambitious, unofficial Half-Life expansion wraps up a 24-year-old cliffhanger

  
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  With "gracious permission from Valve," Garry's Mod update adds "most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content" to remove "majority" of infamous pink and black missing textures

  
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  After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

  
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  Forgotten Half-Life 2 zombie mod from 2007 suddenly explodes on Steam

  
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  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dev Wants to Follow in Half-Life 2 and Ocarina of Time’s Footsteps

  
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  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer wants to follow Valve and Nintendo's example with Half-Life 2 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time by keeping teams lean despite success

  
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  Half-Life 2 will never be the same as legendary mod officially comes to Steam

  
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  Steam now lets you check out each month's top 50 best-selling games, and scroll all the way back to Half-Life 2's release if you want to feel mega old

  
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  Ten years later, Half-Life remake Black Mesa gets surprise update, drops to $2