Half-Life 2 isn't afraid to break novel boundaries. The game's continuity is game design, soundscape, themes, and unbroken naturalistic presentation. The game is contantly mixing it up, never once leaving the first-person perspective, from sewer sneaking, speeding down highways and rivers, facing existential horrors, and fighting tooth and nail not just for your own survival, but your liberation. With zero handholding, you're let loose in a cohesive world of wildly varied & engaging setpieces, pitting an unwitting physicist's experimentation, survival instinct, and human perseverance and improvisation against unknowable cosmicist co-optive nightmares.

Half-Life 2 isn't afraid to break novel boundaries. The game's continuity is game design, soundscape, themes, and unbroken naturalistic presentation. The game is contantly mixing it up, never once leaving the first-person perspective, from sewer sneaking, speeding down highways and rivers, facing existential horrors, and fighting tooth and nail not just for your own survival, but your liberation. With zero handholding, you're let loose in a cohesive world of wildly varied & engaging setpieces, pitting an unwitting physicist's experimentation, survival instinct, and human perseverance and improvisation against unknowable cosmicist co-optive nightmares.