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Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The player controls Gordon Freeman, who joins a resistance effort to liberate Earth from the alien Combine empire.

Credits

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Parents Guide

Partially reviewed
Version covered

ESRB record covering Windows PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox and Xbox 360. Episode One, Episode Two, updates and online interactions unassessed.

Violence

Strong

The official descriptors identify intense violence with blood and gore; no scene descriptions are supplied.

Unlisted categories are unassessed. Content can vary by cut or edition.

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Time, story & content

TIME FORGE

How long does it take?

13 hr

Base game

Base Game
13 hr
Dedicated Playthrough
15h 30m
Perfect Game
20 hr

Named base-game community timing record across reported platforms; separately listed expansions and DLC are excluded. Community reports vary by version, platform and player; the three planning modes are not fixed runtimes.

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ENTERTAINMENT DYNASTY

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The player controls Gordon Freeman, who joins a resistance effort to liberate Earth from the alien Combine empire.

Credits

Wikipedia contributors, Half-Life 2 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Modified for this entry.

Publishers
Electronic Arts
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SPOILER CENTRAL

The story

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