:::->Description of Game<-:::
English Version:
The original Half-Life takes place at a remote civilian and military laboratory called the Black Mesa Research Facility. During an experiment, researchers at Black Mesa accidentally cause a "resonance cascade" which rips open a portal to an alien world, Xen. Hostile creatures from Xen flood into Black Mesa via the portal and start killing everyone in sight. The player takes on the role of Gordon Freeman, one of the research scientists who had been involved in the accident and who now must escape the facility. Gordon manages to terminate the creature holding the portal open.
At the end of the game, a mysterious figure colloquially known as the G-Man extracts Gordon from Black Mesa and "offers" him employment. Gordon is subsequently put into stasis.[31]
In Half-Life 2, the story resumes an indeterminate number of years after the Black Mesa incident, with the G-Man taking Freeman out of stasis and inserting him into a train en route to City 17. Official sources differ on the actual length of the intermission; a story fragment written by author Marc Laidlaw for the development team puts the intermission at ten years,[32] while Half-Life 2: Episode One's website puts this intermission as "nearly two decades".[33] One of the characters Freeman encounters, Alyx Vance, is seen in a picture as a child at Black Mesa, but appears as a young adult by the time Gordon reappears. This information is not directly relayed to the player. The friendly characters that Freeman encounters appear unaware of the stasis he was put in and assumes that he has full knowledge of everything that has happened since the end of Half-Life. The game is set on Earth, which has been conquered by the extraterrestrial civilization known as the Combine.
The environments in Half-Life 2, in accordance with the game's story, all have a distinct post-apocalyptic theme, yet in design they are varied, and include the Eastern European-styled City 17, the zombie-infested Ravenholm; the coastal Nova Prospekt prison and the massive Combine Citadel. Viktor Antonov, the art director of Half-Life 2, who spent his childhood in Bulgaria, wrote that the developers consciously modeled Half-Life 2's setting on Eastern Europe because they were fascinated by the region's combination of both new and old architecture and desired to infuse City 17 and its environs with the same sense of history.
Italian Version:
Dopo il disastro di Black Mesa, Gordon Freeman è prelevato e messo in condizione di stasi da un individuo noto al pubblico come G-Man. Il governo bombarda l'area cancellando ogni prova della sua esistenza; nel frattempo, un consorzio di razze aliene denominato Combine, rilevato il picco provocato dalla breccia utilizzata dal Nihilanth (il "boss" finale di Half-Life) per invadere la Terra, decreta l'invasione in massa del pianeta.
L'invasione del Combine (la Guerra delle Sette Ore) è veloce e devastante. Il Combine prende misure drastiche per mantenere un controllo serrato: i sopravvissuti sono radunati in città-prigioni sparse in tutto il mondo, obbligate a servire l'oppressore mentre questo depreda la Terra di tutte le sue risorse sotto la minaccia di morte o di "conversione" forzata allo stato di servitori. La Resistenza, guidata dai pochi sopravvissuti di Black Mesa, aiuta i cittadini a fuggire dalle città-prigioni per accoglierli in basi sicure e consentire una lotta armata nel tentativo di cacciare l'oppressore.
Language: Italian
Genre: FPS
Software House: Valve Software
Official Site: http://halflife.multiplayer.it/
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Date: 16 November 2004
Minimal requirements:
Processor 1.2 GHz
RAM 256MB
Graphic Card with DirectX 7
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection
Requirements:
Processor 2.4 GHz
RAM 512MB
Graphic Card with DirectX 9
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection
