The game won 39 'Game of the Year' awards and the title of 'Game of the Decade' at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards, in addition to sales of 12 million copies by 2011. Half-Life 2 received critical acclaim, with praise directed towards its advanced physics, animation, sound, AI, graphics, and narrative, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest games of all time. All retail copies of the game, as well as all initial digital versions, were bundled with Counter-Strike: Source, which some game journalists referred to as part of Half-Life 2's 'multiplayer component.' Joined by allies including resistance fighter Alyx Vance, Gordon searches for a way to free humanity using a variety of weapons, including the object-manipulating Gravity Gun. Taking place some years after the events of Half-Life, protagonist Gordon Freeman is awakened by the enigmatic G-Man to find the world has been taken over by the alien Combine. The game was developed alongside Valve's Steam software and the Source engine. During development, a substantial part of the project was leaked and distributed on the Internet. It is the sequel to 1998's Half-Life and was released in November 2004 following a five-year $40 million development. The game is set during May 200- in a remote area of New Mexico, USA at the Black Mesa Research Facility a fictional complex that bears many similarities to both the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Area 51.Half-Life 2 (stylized as HλLF-LIFE2) is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. After an experiment that goes horribly awry when an unexpected Resonance Cascade (an apparently completely fictitious occurrence) rips dimensional seams that devastate the facility, Gordon must fight to escape the now alien-infested facility as creatures from another world - known as Xen - subsequently enter in ever-increasing numbers through these dimensional seams.

Gordon Freeman, a recent MIT graduate in theoretical physics, and also a recent employee at Black Mesa. N Half-Life, players assume the role of the protagonist, Dr. Designed for Microsoft Windows, the game uses a heavily modified version of the Quake engine, called GoldSrc. The player takes the perspective of scientist Gordon Freeman. Half-Life, stylized as HλLF-LIFE, is a science fiction first-person shooter developed and published by Valve.

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