Half-Life 2

"...but it all started with Half-Life 2, which, aside from being Source's guinea pig, was an incredible game in its own right. I remember just playing with the Gravity Gun for hours, throwing stuff around the environment just to see how it would react. Seriously, though, where the hell is Half-Life 3?!"

- Sohinki

Half-Life 2 is a game featured on Why We're Single and Top 5.

Game Information
Half-Life 2 (stylized as HλLF-LIFE2) is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to 1998's Half-Life and was developed alongside Valve's Steam software and the Source engine. Taking place some years after the events of the first game, protagonist Gordon Freeman is awakened by the enigmatic G-Man to find the world has been taken over by the alien Combine. 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.

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. It won 39 Game of the Year awards and the title of "Game of the Decade" at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. It was followed by two episodic sequels: Episode One in 2006 and Episode Two in 2007.