About a week ago, I started playing through Half-Life 2 again, and I had a lot more fun this time around. I guess this was due to messing around with the large amount of weapons I had instead of relying on the machine gun like in my first playthrough. Anyway, as I was playing through HL2 again, I once again realized one aspect that made it so fun to play: deaths. More specifically, the various ways people die in this game. So, with that in mind, I give you my top five favorite deaths in Half-Life 2.
It's nice that the developers gave you twisted ways to use the gravity gun the moment you got it. Minutes into "We don't go to Ravenholm...", you'll enter a building with saws littered around. Fortunately, seconds later, a bunch of zombies start attacking you, giving you good reason to start shooting off those killer saws:
When you get your very own squad towards the beginning of Anticitizen One for the first time, you thought it was a pretty awesome moment. Later on, you think differently. They get in your way almost all the damn time, especially in narrow spaces, and whenever you need them the most, they die a quick death. Most of which are pretty fucking stupid. But the most retarded of these deaths comes at the start of "Follow Freeman!": you've just gathered a fresh batch of squad members, and head off into the streets where snipers await your presence. You, being the intelligent being that you are (hopefully), make quick dashes from wall to wall, taking cover before the sniper fires a shot. You think your squad members would do the same, right? Nope. Instead, they stand around in the open, waiting to be killed:
Yeah.... I think it's a little too late to be saying "Uh-oh.".
Red barrels, grenades, rocket launchers, you name it. Anything that make combine soldiers fly to their deaths is always a fun thing to witness:
I never get tired of running over combine soldiers in Water Hazard. I mean, come on, look how scared those two in the middle look before getting hit:
And I shit you not, I actually ran over a bird when I was gathering pics. I wasn't even trying, I was just about to jump a ramp when this black object appeared out of nowhere. It was only till I heard the bird scream in pain that I realized what just happened:
It's a damn shame you never have that much ammo for this thing. Piercing combine soldiers to the walls is like the coolest thing, ever:
I love that second to last picture, it looks like I blew his head off.
A pretty cool upgrade you get in Our Benefactors. You'll be able to pick up combine soldiers and throw them into others or off of platforms. It's awesome and funny at the same time.
So, there you have it, my top five favorite Half-Life 2 deaths. I'm sure it'll change when I play through this game again, but, I'll be too lazy to do an update.
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