Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter computer game and the highly anticipated sequel to Half-Life, developed by Valve Software. It was released on November 16, 2004 to very positive reviews {{ref|reviews}}, following a protracted five-year development cycle during which the game's source code was leaked to the internet. The game utilizes the advanced Source game engine, coupled with a heavily modified version of the Havok physics engine, and was critically acclaimed for ground-breaking improvements in computer animation, computer graphics, artificial intelligence (AI) and physics. Since its release, the game has sold about 3 million copies so far {{ref|sales}}.

External links

Official

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• Official Half-Life 2 website
• Steam homepage
• Half-Life 2 demo (1CD)

Fansites/Communities

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• Half-Life Marine.com - Half-Life Museum
• Halflife2.Net - Largest Half-Life 2 Community
• HLFallout - A popular Half-Life 2 fansite.
• HL2 Central - One of the oldest Half-Life 2 fansites.
• HLForums.com - A popular Half-Life related community along with Half Life related news.
• Half-Life Portal - A Half-Life site

Development Communities

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• sourceWiki - For Half-Life 2 mod developers
• Half-Life 2 Wiki. A complete knowledge base and tutorial dump for Half-Life 2.
• Valve Developer Community - A wiki made by Valve to aid in the editing of Half-Life 2

Related Resources

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• interlopers.net A site that collects tutorials for Hammer mapping as well as Texturing and other Source SDK related content.
• 17's Buddies - More than 10000 maps to download for HL, HL² and mods.

Individual Articles

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• Half-Life Saga Story Guide - A speculative timeline of the Half-Life games' plot as a whole.
• Pidgeon's guide - A guide for fun console commands that can be used in Half-Life 2.
• MobyGames' entry on Half Life 2
• Half-Life 2: Under The Surface - NTSC-uk examines Half-Life 2.