Half-Life (series): Difference between revisions

 

=== The games composing the series are the following: ===

 

* ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life 1]]''

** ''Half-Life 2: Episode 1''

** ''Half-Life 2: Episode 2''

 

''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' is [[Gaiden Game|a side story]] to the series, whose plot has evolved almost completely separately given that it takes place entirely inside the Aperture Science complex, established in-game as a rival to the Black Mesa Research Facility. Because of its enormous popularity, it seems to have overtaken the ''[[Half Life]]'' series as the focus of Valve's attention for now, projects like ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' and ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' (obviously not set in the main ''[[Half Life]]'' universe) notwithstanding.

** Justified in that the suit has built in medical tech and movement assisting features. Even when the reactive armor is inactive, the suit can absorb damage that should otherwise cripple or even kill the wearer, while the suit's medical systems administer medicine (refilled from health containers or stations) to take care of whatever manages to leak through.

* [[Crowbar Combatant]]

* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Most bosses in the Half Life series are either a [[Puzzle Boss]] or can be defeated very quickly with a powerful weapon. The Gonarch, however, has no real other strategy to it than "circle strafe while firing all weapons at testicle, avoid white acid, run after it, repeat". It also has invincibility frames.

* [[Deadly Rotary Fan]]: Several times in the first game and at least once in ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', you have to pass through, or by, an active fan. Touching the blades means [[One-Hit Kill|instant death]].

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