The city is under control of the alien transhuman forces called the Combine, who have mysterious plans for planet earth.
Half Life 2 continues with the G-Man releasing Freeman out of stasis and taking him to City 17 via rail route. The ending scene of Half Life shows Gordon Freeman being extracted by a mysterious G-Man who then puts him into a stasis. This Sci-Fi first person shooter revolves around Gordon Freeman’s struggle for survival against alien creatures and the armed “Combine” in the fictional City 17. Half Life 2 proved to be one of the best sequels and grabbed over 35 Game of the Year awards for 2004. The unprecedented success of Half Life demanded an equally awe-inspiring follow up. But, Freeman has the awe-inspiring gravity gun and some of his friends to stop the evil plans of the extra-terrestrial forces.
The destructive abilities of the Combine Forces and the spine-tingling aliens leave little doubt for survival. The protagonist, Gordon Freeman, fights for his survival yet again, and this time the enemies are more brutal. Half Life 2 is a first person shooter game set in a fictional City 17.
