The player guides Gordon Freeman through the City 17 and the wilderness that surrounds it. Half-Life 2 is a linear first-person shooter with light puzzle-solving elements and many setpieces, similar to its predecessor in concept. Gordon is soon brought into a resistance group, and makes a seemingly futile attempt to bring down the Combine and liberate the Earth. Meanwhile, Gordon Freeman, the man who was at the center of the events that took place shortly before the rise of the Combine, awakens from his stasis and is inserted into a train to City 17 by the mysterious G-man.
Earth is turning into a grim, oppressive police state.
An energy field prevents humans from procreating, and no new children are born. Wallace Breen, a human scientist, rules the city on behalf of his new masters. A Combine Citadel is erected in City 17, a town in Eastern Europe reminiscent of World War II ghettos.
Half-Life: Source - Digitally remastered version of the original acclaimed PC gameįollowing the period of instability caused by the events described in Half-Life, an interdimensional organization known as the Combine invades the Earth, defeating the human forces in the Seven Hour War.Counter-Strike: Source - The next generation of the #1 online action game.The player will be able to fight and dominate the world with 35 different civilizations, four of which are new to this edition: Bulgarians, Cumans, Lithuanians and Tartars.This edition of Half-Life 2 includes the game on a limited edition DVD-ROM and some exclusive extras.It includes all the expansions of the original edition (The Conquerors) and HD Edition (The Forgotten, The African Kingdoms and Rise of the Rajas).It has been improved the search of routes in the units and the AI is exponentially better.Continuous support in the Scenario Editor.New game modes are included such as cooperative mode, the Camp Battle mode or Quick Match.It includes a new campaign called The Last Kanes.More than 200 hours of campaign spanning more than a millennium of human history.In its essence, we are facing the same game, but with significantly better graphics, a remastered soundtrack and a few interesting new features such as an AI with a more efficient behavior or improvements in the use of commands.Ĭelebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the most acclaimed strategy games in history. It has been nearly a quarter of a century since the first version was released and more than two decades since Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.ĪoE II, considered as the great debut of the series, places us after the fall of the Roman Empire and leaves in our hands the destiny of Humanity during the period of time between the barbarian invasions and the end of the Medieval Age.Īge of Empires II: Definitive Edition is the definitive remastering of this great game, released to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. Age of Empires is one of the best real-time strategy videogame sagas in the history of videogames and one of the great favorites among lovers of the genre.