Ravenholm is a bit different. While Alyx, Gordon’s partner in Half-Life 2, speaks the infamous line “We don’t go to Ravenholm anymore” prior to you ever stepping foot in the town ...

This is where Half-Life 2 excels. We have a simple, sci-fi horror story – creepy building, everyone’s been killed by monsters – but it’s all told without words. If the point of Gordon ...

Find out more about our reviews policy. If Half-Life 2's nerdy protagonist Gordon Freeman is going to save the world, he's gonna need more than the crowbar he began the last game wielding.

Alyx and Half-Life 2: Episode Two ahead. But that’s no longer canon. Alyx mostly takes place five years before Eli’s death, while Alyx and Eli are fighting the Combine, and Gordon is in stasis.

So perhaps the fact that Half-Life 2: Episode 2 left us all in the lurch is appropriate; it seems the franchise's lead writer never planned to wholly resolve things for Gordon, instead putting him ...

We're going to talk about general processes and the elements of style and design that make Half-Life 2 such an energising experience. Key to this is the way in which Gordon's tale is told.