In the Half-Life 2 finale, the G-Man pulls Gordon out of the action just as he accomplishes his mission, leaving Alyx to die and putting Gordon back in stasis until his services are needed again. At the end of the original game, for example, the G-Man - who is always dressed in a blue suit and carries a black briefcase - “hires” Gordon Freeman to work for him. When Alyx reaches the cell at the center of the Vault and opens it, she’s surprised to see the G-Man, the supernatural being first introduced in the original Half-Life as a recruiter for an unknown employer who often intervenes with the events of the story. This is the first clue that the prisoner in question might not be tied to the laws of reality as we know it. Rooms turn upside down, objects float in the air unperturbed by the laws of gravity, and doors lead into other places that don’t make any physical sense. Inside the Vault is what seems like a simulation of City 17 itself that’s unstuck from time and space. Alyx decides to reach the Vault and free Gordon, but what she finds inside the Vault is beyond what she could have expected. The Vances surmise it’s Gordon Freeman, the hero of the Black Mesa incident who’s not been seen in years (he will later return in Half-Life 2). It’s not a superweapon meant to crush the resistance fighting the alien occupation of Earth but a prison meant to keep someone very important trapped inside. What is the Vault and how did G-Man end up there?Īlyx and Eli Vance spend much of the game thinking the strange Vault hanging above City 17 is the location of some kind of Combine superweapon, but the story slowly reveals the Vault’s true purpose. Let’s break down the ending of the game and see where it leaves Alyx and the Half-Life universe as a whole. Fan-favorite Alyx Vance has already joined the fight against the Combine invaders in City 17, and when her father, the scientist Eli Vance, is captured by the enemy, the young hero springs into action and sets out on a mission to rescue him.īut as the story unfolds, all roads lead to a much bigger mystery that has huge implications for the future of the franchise as well as its past.
The VR game is set after the first Half-Life but five years before the events of Half-Life 2. Half-Life: Alyx isn’t exactly the sequel you were waiting for, but it’s nonetheless a fascinating look into what will likely be the future of the franchise. A new Half-Life game has been released by Valve, 13 years after the last installment, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, ended on a grim cliffhanger, with no sign that the story would ever be completed.
It seemed like this day would never come.
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