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Half Life 2 - Our Benefactors

January 17th, 2005

I took out the next two generators to disable the barriers, but got trapped in one of the rooms in the house. Combine solders started throwing grenades through holes in the walls and busted through the doors in massive numbers. After my squad and I took them out when headed downstairs to exit the building and met more waves of soldiers. This was probably been the most gun fighting I’ve done yet in the game. After exiting the area, we went downstairs and met a resistance force soldier that told us they dropped a crate of rockets in the courtyard that could be used to take out the striders outside. Striders?!? Striders are these huge spider-like vehicles that have a powerful mounted gun and an even more powerful energy canon that has a cool animation that I can’t describe. They take about 6 rockets to take down, so that means that you can’t just get some rockets, hide behind a wall and take it down. I ran around like a freak taking down around 6 striders, so it took a while. Then, I got past a barrier in the street and headed down it.

I exited into a very large tunnel that had only one solder running towards me, I quickly brought him down and knew something bad was going to happen because of the largeness of the area. Once I ran down it and got to a certain point, a large explosion happened behind me and a strider was crawling after me! I ducked into a torn up building full of soldiers and flammable barrells which I used to extinguish the soldiers. I scaled the building being careful to not let the strider (who was pacing around the building) see me, but these flying scanners kept revealing my location. I think I blew up about 20 of those things before I found more rockets to bring down the strider. Once that was over, the building connected to another street with more striders that I had to just run past, because there were no rockets to be found.

This part was very hard because all of the buildings where blown to pieces and there were countless soldiers shooting at you, while you are trying to not be seen by the striders. I eventually got some resistance force help, but they didn’t last long. Finally, I got to the top of one of the buildings and found some rockets to bring down 3 of the last striders in the area. I balanced some I-beams across to the other street and found more help. We came to an intersection and I saw a car get thrown into a statue and thought, oh great. But, that was Barney and Alex’s “dog”, who rushed in to help me take out a squad of Combine soldiers. Barney said dog was looking for Alex and wouldn’t stop at anything. At this point were right next to the very tall Citadel, where the evil scientist was hiding out, but there was a very thick and tall wall blocking our way. Dog lifted up one of the posts that revealed a tunnel below. I climbed down and that’s where I stopped.

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