• Gordon Freeman, PhD, is the silent protagonist of the Half-Life series and the playable character in Half-Life and all games in the Half-Life 2 series. (wikipedia.org)
  • The G-Man's constant appearances in the Half-Life games, as well as his revealing monologues with series protagonist Gordon Freeman, imply that he is of great importance and somewhat anchors the efforts of the player. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Half-Life: Blue Shift, the playable Barney progresses through Black Mesa to escape the events of the Resonance Cascade and is able to do so, in contrast to Gordon Freeman and Adrian Shephard, who are held in stasis. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the original Half-Life, you are Gordon Freeman, a physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility. (gamesfirst.com)
  • On the way you pass you're former self in Half-life, Gordon Freeman, which is the only time I was really amused in the entire game. (gameindustry.com)
  • As the Boston-based studio got to grips with Elizabeth, the 20-year-old woman Booker travels to the flying city of Columbia to rescue, staff repeatedly recommended she be cut from the game - but Levine resisted, setting up the "Liz Squad", a team of staff from multiple disciplines charged with meeting the challenge of creating the best AI companion character since Alyx Vance from Valve's Half-Life 2. (eurogamer.net)
  • Adrian Shephard is the protagonist of Half-Life: Opposing Force. (wikipedia.org)
  • David Baldacci talks about the inspiration for FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine, the lead character in his new crime series, and the challenges of writing a female protagonist. (panmacmillan.com)
  • The star of my next series, Atlee Pine, is an FBI Special Agent who grew up in rural Georgia, and the first female protagonist I've had as a lead series character in all of my books. (panmacmillan.com)
  • I've written about a lot of female characters in my novels, and I'm very comfortable writing about women, but I wanted to explore an avenue where the female was the lead character and the lead protagonist. (panmacmillan.com)
  • Writing a female as the lead protagonist was something different for me, and it was a challenge for me as a male to write a female character. (panmacmillan.com)
  • In this video, David introduces the character of Atlee Pine, his first solo female protagonist. (panmacmillan.com)
  • While the atmospheric shooter won plaudits for the underwater city of Rapture, its main character was a silent protagonist - a cypher, as Levine describes him. (eurogamer.net)
  • This section deals with characters that appear in Half-Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and Decay. (wikipedia.org)
  • The game also comes with Half-Life: Opposing Force, so if you have not picked up that title, then you are basically getting two new games in one. (gameindustry.com)
  • Michael Shapiro provided Barney's voice in the games of the Half-Life series. (wikipedia.org)
  • Barney's name stemmed from the earlier alpha versions of Half-Life in which the model for the security guards held a resemblance to actor Don Knotts, inspiring comparisons with Knotts's character Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show, which in the United States has long been a disparaging term for an inept policeman or security guard. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shephard was planned to be the player character of Arkane Studios' Ravenholm spinoff game, developed around 2007 to 2008, a project which Valve later cancelled. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some guy, who some other guy said works at Valve, wore a Half-Life 3 t-shirt to a "local game development event. (pcgamer.com)
  • There have been two expansions to Half-Life 2, but Valve software can't count to 3 so don't hold your breath on a third one. (bluesnews.com)
  • The story is told from multiple perspectives, and Maarleveld does a great job creating believable character distinctions and capturing the tension as the story builds to a final twist. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • After deciding that BioShock Infinite would feature an AI companion, Irrational set to work creating what it hoped would be a believable, likeable character that reacted to the world around her and to the player's actions. (eurogamer.net)
  • Barney Calhoun is the player character in Half-Life: Blue Shift and a major character in Half-Life 2 as well as Half-Life 2: Episode One. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's been over twelve years since the shocking conclusion to Half-Life 2: Episode 2 left us eagerly awaiting the next chapter. (pcgamer.com)
  • The years since have not resulted in Episode 3 or a proper Half-Life 3, but miraculously, a new Half-Life game is out right now. (pcgamer.com)
  • Half-Life 2: Episode 3, in time for Christmas 2007! (pcgamer.com)
  • By my calculations, that means we're just about due for Half-Life 2 Episode 16. (pcgamer.com)
  • Advisors had previously appeared in Half-Life 2, primarily in Episode Two, but that particular slice of code was not in the Episode Two SDK. (pcgamer.com)
  • Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw released the "unofficial" outline of 'Half-Life 2: Episode 3. (vice.com)
  • After all the pain and suffering Eliot went through on The Magicians Season 5 Episode 5 and The Magicians Season 5 Episode 6 , this guy deserves to have something go right for once in his life. (tvfanatic.com)
  • At the time of Half-Life, he works at Black Mesa Research Facility, a facility in New Mexico, conducting nuclear and subatomic research. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shephard is briefly mentioned in Half-Life: Blue Shift, where a HECU marine grumbles about taking over some of Shephard's squad's duties. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's not a special edition or add-on: Blue Shift is the official sequel to Half-Life, the awesome first-person shooter series from Sierra. (gameindustry.com)
  • If you love Half-Life, then you probably will like Blue Shift. (gameindustry.com)
  • In total I give Blue Shift 2 and 1/2 Gin Gems for peaking my interest, yet like the game's main character, it ultimately delivers a slightly sub par performance. (gameindustry.com)
  • However, half-life calculations were based on the limited data available at the time, including 2 time points representing inoculation dose and titers at the conclusion of the study and insufficient replicates from which to calculate SEs or 95% CIs around the half-life estimates. (cdc.gov)
  • We used 144 titrations for the half-life calculations in feed (4 time points × 4 replicates = 16 titers/feed ingredient) and duplicate titers over 4 time points to calculate half-life in RPMI medium. (cdc.gov)
  • This is a list of characters in the Half-Life video game series, which comprises Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Half-Life: Alyx, and their respective expansion packs and episodes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Silver Sable is a disaster of a character in this game. (shamusyoung.com)
  • A set of Source 2 tools for building new levels is included with the game, enabling any player to build and contribute new environments for the community to enjoy through Half-Life: Alyx's Steam Workshop . (steampowered.com)
  • Half-Life 2 is out, and while it seems unbelievable that a game we waited five years for has actually launched, it is just as unbelievable that it lives up to the hype in nearly every way - nearly. (gamesfirst.com)
  • In more than a few ways Half-Life 2 has been pegged as the greatest-something-something game ever - PC game, shooter, action game, storytelling endeavor - but the hype has been a double-edged sword, causing stricter criticisms than most any other game recently released. (gamesfirst.com)
  • Half-Life 2 is a worthy, if slightly disappointing, successor to Half-Life, and a fantastic game even with some glaring issues. (gamesfirst.com)
  • It still surprises me how much depth of character, situation, and world can be revealed through in-game storytelling. (gamesfirst.com)
  • For those of our readers who never played through Half-Life, but are thinking about picking up the sequel, I must briefly return to the first game to explain Gordon Freeman's fate. (gamesfirst.com)
  • The decision to create an AI companion character was sparked by the fact that it hadn't been done well since Alyx in Half-Life 2, a game released eight years ago. (eurogamer.net)
  • Actually, the first game I owned was an abysmal FMV adventure called Danger Island , but Half-Life was the first good game. (vice.com)
  • There is no game-over screen if one of or all of the main characters die, there will just be a different ending given. (mobygames.com)
  • Those who pre-purchased their copy via Steam may access the game by restarting Steam, then double-clicking on the Half-Life 2 icon in their Steam Games directory. (bluesnews.com)
  • This is a list of characters from the Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game . (wikipedia.org)
  • The new game is a refinement on the established formula and includes a variety of new additions to the character roster to keep things fresh. (gamingnexus.com)
  • It is an action game at heart and the goal is to explore and level your characters by defeating tons of enemies and completing levels. (gamingnexus.com)
  • One of the biggest selling points for the new game is the fact that all of your existing characters will be completely compatible with Skylanders: Giants. (gamingnexus.com)
  • The new game will introduce 20 new characters to the franchise. (gamingnexus.com)
  • This includes 8 Giant characters, which is where the game gets its subtitle. (gamingnexus.com)
  • Variables such as age, main complaint, real need of treatment and association of TMD with contributing factors, such as stress, anxiety, depression and quality of life, continue to be questioned 5-9 . (bvsalud.org)
  • This review, as well as the sequel to the 1998 critically acclaimed masterpiece Half-Life, have been a long time coming, and while 2004 has netted some excellent titles for both the PC and home consoles, it just wouldn't be the same without a breakout PC first-person-shooter, now would it? (gamesfirst.com)
  • How can a character be boring and infuriating at the same time? (shamusyoung.com)
  • For this study, our objective was to improve the accuracy of ASFV half-life estimates by increasing the number of time points and replicates in the same trans-Atlantic model. (cdc.gov)
  • The production crew has to do some pretty fancy footwork every time two characters get close together, whether it's to embrace each other or to beat each other up," Chollet said. (cmf-fmc.ca)
  • Do you think there is like a shelf life almost for the amount of time you can continue to do this kind of material? (pastemagazine.com)
  • I began rebuilding my life, this time a leaner and meaner version of the previous one. (beliefnet.com)
  • During this time, I realized my hair was teaching me so much about myself, so much about life. (beliefnet.com)
  • He plays the role of an overseer and employer, both observing the player as the games progress and pulling strings to control the outcome of specific events throughout the Half-Life saga. (wikipedia.org)
  • I am not a misanthrope, far from it, scenes of everyday life. (cdc.gov)
  • Instead, he opted for the role of Anton's cousin Vincent, a character he's described as the film's "dumber hustler. (salon.com)
  • Though he had made money all kinds of ways and had many connections Juan Carlos had left the Hustler life alone and had gone completely legitimate. (stuckonsalsa.com)
  • VR was built to enable the gameplay that sits at the heart of Half-Life. (steampowered.com)
  • Both games sport problems here and there, but - for comparison sake- Half-Life 2's problems end up affecting gameplay in a way that Halo 2 's never did. (gamesfirst.com)
  • The gameplay is exactly what fans have come to know and love: action and exploration with the ability to swap out your characters at will. (gamingnexus.com)
  • But now that she's a reporter, she can be involved, meet villains, discover new information, deliver exposition, and generally be a proactive character within the story. (shamusyoung.com)
  • At times a bit convoluted, the story centers on half-siblings Will and Maggie Scripps. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • It's the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. (steampowered.com)
  • The story of George Michael's rise to fame and his incredible but turbulent life is currently being told in a new biography, George Michael: A Life, as well as a re-released documentary Freedom Uncut - which turned out to be the singer's final work before his death. (sky.com)
  • The story revolves around the lives of four characters as they try to stop the Origami Killer from taking the life of another victim. (mobygames.com)
  • Ths story is about Juan Carlos ' addictions and other people's addictions and how it affect their lives in Washington. (stuckonsalsa.com)
  • Well, as original as stories get when you have the same hero fighting the same bad guys for over half a century. (shamusyoung.com)
  • In awe of catching them in person, we mustered enough courage to approach them for an autograph or to just shake their hand, only to be confronted by the realization that our hero is, in fact, a total dick in real life. (digitaltrends.com)
  • The Half-Life connection at that point was pretty thin but that's the conclusion everyone jumped to because we were all so desperate for some crumb of hope, and it did have the distinct look of an ARG in its early stages . (pcgamer.com)
  • As noted on Steam News Half-Life 2 is now officially available at retail stores throughout North America. (bluesnews.com)
  • But through their drab many media, among them pastels, which he softened over lives, fluffy costumes, or trappings of gaiety in busy ven- steam into a paste and used over gouache and monotype ues, the artist's penetrating eye captured for all to see not prints. (cdc.gov)
  • Half-Life 2, one of the most anticipated PC games ever, is worth owning, playing, and loving like a significant other. (gamesfirst.com)
  • The good news is that, after the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, prospects are bright for more Half-Life games in the future (in whatever forms they'll take). (pcgamer.com)
  • For example, if the 13-year-old in the Tessa Major case is found guilty of murder in the second degree, though he wasn't the one who stabbed the victim, he faces a minimum sentence in the range of five to nine years, and a maximum of life. (city-journal.org)
  • The minimum for his 14-year-old codefendant, assuming he was the killer, is seven and a half to 15 years, with a maximum of life. (city-journal.org)
  • This will brighten the students' student lives for many years to come, and contribute to the true Lund-spirit living on for many more semesters! (lu.se)
  • The only things left from the original character are the name and the hair color. (shamusyoung.com)
  • That's a fine character design, but it REALLY diverges from the original. (shamusyoung.com)
  • Hear equipment rattle, players breath, screaming players plummeting to their death, footsteps for every occasion- four times the original capacity of the half-life engine, and more! (fileplanet.com)
  • I have run through the original Half-Life twice, once on normal and once on hard. (gamesfirst.com)
  • If you have been living on Mars and don't know what Half-Life is, then start from the beginning because the original is way more fun to play. (gameindustry.com)
  • Just sos you know, if we follow my original plot for it, some characters will likely be thrown way out off character, there will be a TON of Magus, and it will be likely to offend many sensibilities. (chronocompendium.com)
  • Toys for Bob is also going to release new versions of all of the original characters in the form of a version 2 line of figures. (gamingnexus.com)
  • All of the original characters will be included in this new line and feature new poses, new color schemes, and even a new top-level ability that you will have to work towards unlocking. (gamingnexus.com)
  • The point is that the writers were free to create their own version of the character and his world, and that version wasn't chained to the convoluted lore of any of the comics, movies, cartoons, or breakfast cereals that came before it. (shamusyoung.com)
  • Anthem has been around for a little while now, and aside from all of the flying around and shooting things while sporting a set a power armor, there's also plenty of characters and a deep lore backing up the action. (gamesradar.com)
  • After the Gibraltar campaign, when her husband is on half-pay in an inactive status, Amelia's life becomes a constant struggle against genteel poverty. (enotes.com)
  • His mysterious nature has made him an icon of the Half-Life series. (wikipedia.org)
  • David Baldacci talks about the inspiration for his newest series character FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine. (panmacmillan.com)
  • Atlee is unlike my previous series characters in another way as her background is very different. (panmacmillan.com)
  • Inhuman characters have been featured on Marvel's ABC drama Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , but the Inhumans series won't be a spinoff. (slashfilm.com)
  • In the second half of the season, life returns to normal on L'Échappée . (cmf-fmc.ca)
  • As Bellow writes: "You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. (thedailybeast.com)
  • He says he set out to encompass everything, positive and negative, after talking to almost 250 people who knew or encountered the singer through different periods of his life. (sky.com)
  • But most Half-Life fans will recognize it instantly, and realize what it means. (vice.com)
  • Major effects (i.e., life-threatening or resulting in significant disability or disfigurement) occurred in one in eight (12.6%) reported exposures, and three deaths were reported. (cdc.gov)
  • life expectancy, also called disability- free life expectancy and active life expectancy. (cdc.gov)
  • The best way for her to have the most normal life possible would be for her to be raised in a nice, safe environment like Kentucky. (blogspot.com)
  • Penny has hinted throughout the first half of the season he wants a normal life, as normal of a life as a magician can have, with Julia. (tvfanatic.com)
  • But the siblings' quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • I'm confident now, more than ever, that Britney has it within in her to get her life back on track and to get some semblance of her former popstar glory. (blogspot.com)
  • and then came back to life. (mamamia.com.au)
  • At the start of the next season he is brought back to life by the Red Witch. (mamamia.com.au)
  • But then in the season six premiere, Buffy's mate Willow brought her back to life with magic… because TV pls. (mamamia.com.au)
  • The film is at its most fun when alliances shift and accusations fly, but it takes a while before things have relaxed sufficiently for the characters to reveal their true selves. (reelviews.net)
  • The Essays discuss things that my hair taught me and how I was able to apply these spiritual principles to my everyday life. (beliefnet.com)
  • but for this very reason an eminently recep- who were afraid of him, and was popular with art critics tive creature and sensitive to the character of things," wrote and buyers. (cdc.gov)
  • As part of his desire to challenge himself and the team, Levine decided he wanted a main character who spoke, hence Booker DeWitt. (eurogamer.net)
  • The main centre of Niedernhausen (which alone is home to more than half the community's inhabitants) and the outlying centre of Königshofen stretch along the slopes of a dale. (wikipedia.org)
  • Munroe's main characters? (bostonmagazine.com)
  • A character in the movie describes it by saying, "Oh, so you're like the scalpers who jump ahead of the queue on Ticketmaster. (salon.com)
  • In Half-Life 2, Barney works as a mole for the Lambda Resistance in the Combine Civil Protection Forces. (wikipedia.org)
  • With whispers of spies in dark corners and the world's first atomic bomb in the works, the visitor's sudden presence in Maggie's and Will's lives raises questions about who she is and what she wants. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Their characters are works-in-progress. (city-journal.org)
  • This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. (lu.se)
  • The VR exclusive Half-Life: Alyx is a standalone prequel to HL2 starring a lone Alyx going up against the Combine with a pair of gravity gloves. (pcgamer.com)
  • Movement of your character is done by holding the R2 button and choosing a direction with the left analog stick. (mobygames.com)
  • Pressing left or right makes your character turn in that direction. (ign.com)
  • The change makes a lot of sense and I understand why the writers did it, but I'm also an old guy who grew up with the Steve Ditko and John Romita versions of the characters. (shamusyoung.com)
  • In the ensuing melee, the characters frequently change allegiances and fractures in both marriages are exposed. (reelviews.net)
  • Cirrhosis of the liver is associated with a ron-specific enolase (NSE) and it has been decreased health-related quality of life, shown to be located in neurons and neur- whether physically (especially at advanced oectodermal cells [10,11]. (who.int)
  • The significant pain associated with TMD and the chronic nature of its symptoms have a negative impact on quality of life 2-4 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Some studies have suggested that the intensity of the signs and symptoms should also be studied to determine how much TMD affects quality of life and the real need of treatment. (bvsalud.org)
  • With masks on, it's hard for characters to express their feelings as events unfold. (cmf-fmc.ca)
  • You grow bonds to the characters whether it be good or not, and you start to actually feel for them. (mobygames.com)
  • When it involves violently taking a human life, the redemption of the transgressor diminishes in significance and the demand for justice takes precedence. (city-journal.org)
  • But, understand this, if you try and look at your most challenging times as an accomplishment, (whether you achieve your goals or not), and see it as a way to improve yourself, than you can accomplish most of your dreams, plus face whatever life deals you. (iwanttoquitsmoking.com)
  • She is a human-demon hybrid and is a part of the Teen Titans , a group that includes characters such as Robin , Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire. (britannica.com)
  • It is quite possible that he is responsible for saving more lives than any other single human being in history (with the possible exception of Stanislav Petrov who may have saved the entire human race through inaction). (adactio.com)
  • : 5 The adventure described him as "a human magic-user/cleric of surpassing evil" who took the steps necessary to preserve his life force as the lich, Acererak. (wikipedia.org)
  • [ 2 ] Their study reported that although human survival in every demographic-age, minority, ethnic group, racial group-was improving over the last half century, they had detected a decline in the longevity of white men and women in the middle-aged group. (medscape.com)
  • Oh, before we get into this I need to explain something about MJ for people who are more familiar with the classic supermodel / actress version of the character. (shamusyoung.com)
  • Desputin's drooping com- painting people and abhorred painting en plein air . (cdc.gov)
  • He also expressed worry about over-committing to Half-Life 3, saying that if the studio got too deep into it, "We have to sell two million copies or else we're fucked. (pcgamer.com)
  • Half-Life 3 references are found in the Alien Swarm SDK , in object properties like "Ep3 Blob Shake Position," "Ep 3 Fire Cover Position," and "Ep 3 Blob Brain Cover Position. (pcgamer.com)
  • Half-Life 2 will scale down to fit most any computer, even those not running quite so fast a video card - they have to at least support Direct X 9.0, which most cards do. (gamesfirst.com)
  • A brief, very strange video clip containing a hex string led to the discovery of a small Half-Life 2 map on Megaupload. (pcgamer.com)
  • This week: Rupert Murdoch passes on Eidos, Half-Life 2 expands, the Nintendo Revolution is revealed, and the video edition of RC debuts. (gamespot.com)