Although it sticks pretty closely to the formula laid down by its predecessor, the sheer weight of technical advancements made in the last six years have opened up new vistas of storytelling (e.g. Now, six years later, Half-Life 2 is upon us, and it's unbelievably and almost unbearably good.
No one can seriously counter the claim that Half-Life was a watershed moment in gaming history, and indeed, its popularity is part of that legacy, as it spawned the most fertile mod community in the modern FPS community. Many of us probably recall sleepless nights shortly before our Thanksgiving break of that year, as we struggled to get through just one more encounter with ruthless government troops or horrific alien entities before finally getting to bed. Objective: Find all lambda caches in Half-Life 2.Anyone who played FPS games in 1998 will have fond memories of their first play-through of Half-Life.
Objective: Cross the antlion beach in chapter Sandtraps without touching the sand. Objective: Play through Ravenholm using only the Gravity Gun. Objective: Kill five enemies with a Manhack. Objective: Use DOG's ball to make a basket in Eli's scrapyard. Objective: Discover the hidden singing vortigaunt cave in chapter Water Hazard. Objective: Kill all of the snipers in City 17. Objective: Disintegrate 15 soldiers by throwing them into a Combine ball field. Objective: Break the mini-teleporter in Kleiner's lab. Objective: Pin a soldier to the billboard in chapter Highway 17. Objective: Destroy the Citadel's reactor core. Objective: Survive the rooftop strider battle in the ruins of City 17.
Objective: Kill 3 enemies using the crane. Objective: Shut down the supression device by disabling its generators. Objective: Destroy six gunships in Half-Life 2.
Objective: Survive the generator plaza standoff in chapter Anticitizen One. Objective: Get through the toxic tunnel under City 17 in Half-Life 2. Objective: Survive the second turret standoff in Nova Prospekt. Objective: Gain command of a squad of rebels in the uprising. Objective: Use the antlions to kill 50 enemies. Objective: Defend Little Odessa from the gunship attack. Objective: Escort Gregori safely through the church cemetery. Objective: Kill five barnacles with one barrel. Objective: Find the HEV Suit Charger faceplate in Eli's scrapyard. Objective: Get the Gravity Gun in Black Mesa East. Objective: Destroy the hunter-chopper in Half-Life 2. Objective: Get the airboat's mounted gun. Objective: Escape the apartment block raid. Use these additional parameters on your hl2.exe shortcut to activate the corresponding function. Proper usage is "npc_create npc_" plus any of the following names: Spawn NPCs: (use with the npc_create command) Give Weapons: (use with the GIVE command)
NOTE: It may be necessary to use the code "sv_cheats 1" before entering other cheat codes into the system. While playing, press (tilde) to bring up the console and enter any of the following cheat codes:Įxample: "C:\Program Files\Half-Life 2\hl2.exe" -console Start the game with the command-line parameter "-console" to enable the console.