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Half-Life 2

2004 first-person shooter video game

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Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter video game where players control a character navigating through a fictional world filled with combat and puzzles. The game is widely regarded as influential in video game design and helped establish standards for storytelling and gameplay mechanics in the shooter genre.

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Metacritic 96

Released: 2004-11-16
User rating: 4.48 / 5
Genres: Shooter, Action
Platforms: PC, Android, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360, Xbox
ESRB: Mature

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Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It was published for Windows on Valve's digital distribution service, Steam. Like the original Half-Life (1998), Half-Life 2 is played from a first-person perspective, combining combat, puzzles, and storytelling. It adds features such as vehicles and physics-based gameplay. The player controls Gordon Freeman, who joins a resistance effort to liberate Earth from the alien Combine empire.

Half-Life 2 was created using Valve's Source game engine, which was developed simultaneously. Development lasted five years and cost US $40 million. Valve's president, Gabe Newell, set his team the goal of redefining the FPS genre. They integrated the Havok physics engine, which simulates real-world physics, to reinforce the sense of presence and create new gameplay. They also developed the characterization, with more detailed character models and animations.