The player also starts without items, slowly building up their arsenal over the course of the game. The sequel has similar mechanics to Half-Life, including health-and-weapon systems and periodic physics puzzles, except with the newer Source engine and improved graphics. Like its predecessor, Half-Life 2 is a single-player first-person shooter broken into several chapters, permanently casting the player as protagonist Gordon Freeman.

It was followed by two episodic sequels: Episode One (2006) and Episode Two (2007). 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. Half-Life 2 (stylized as HλLF-LIFE2) is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation.

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