Alyx undercuts this arc pretty substantially, although it does assimilate some of the core themes. The G-Man then appears and pulls Alyx out of reality, leaving her fate unknown. “Epistle 3” features the player traveling alongside Alyx to find the Borealis, which turns out to be a teleportation system and a sort of time machine. Until now, the closest we’d gotten to Episode Three was a piece of unofficial fanfic called “Epistle 3” from former series writer Marc Laidlaw. This time, players are in the shoes of Gordon Freeman, who hefts his iconic crowbar as the game ends. After some credits, Alyx cuts back to the final scene.

He gives her the chance to save her father, and she takes it. The G-Man, following one of his typically portentous speeches, pulls Alyx into the future. But when Alyx infiltrates a Combine facility to find a “superweapon,” this changes dramatically - because Alyx runs into the G-Man. Then, a Combine “Advisor” bursts in and kills Eli.Īlyx mostly takes place five years before Eli’s death, while Alyx and Eli are fighting the Combine, and Gordon is in stasis. After winning a key military victory, Gordon and Alyx are preparing to hunt down a long-lost research ship called the Borealis, and Eli has hinted at some new information about the mysterious G-Man, who placed Gordon in stasis and saved Alyx’s life as a child. He’s met up with the anti-Combine Resistance, including an old colleague named Eli Vance and his daughter Alyx. Gordon Freeman (who accidentally opened an inter-dimensional portal in Half-Life) has reawakened from a 20-year stasis to find Earth conquered by the alien Combine. Half-Life 2: Episode Two ends with a cliffhanger.

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