then when they made half-life 2, they decided to make combien thumpers to repel the antlions that could burrow, and decided that those hl1 thumpers would officially have this use too. Like some minerals extraction or something. Overall, level design in this chapter is the best in the whole Half-Life series: very various, beautiful and imaginative.Īctually, valve stated that they didn’t know themselves what those thumpers were for at first, but decided to put them here so people would think there was something intelligent going on in xen even before seeing the grunt factory. Big teleporter is obviously our goal, and for some reason we hear scientists” voices coming from it “Get him out of there, shut down the equipment and someone get him out!”. It’s the creepy place where some small islands float in black void. But if we go to the red hole in the wall, we find ourselves in a very imaginative area with spiral walkways.Īnd the last location is the smallest. It is so heavily guarded, howewer, that even infinite healing machines fail to prevent me from dying.įinally, we see the teleporter under the ceiling, and elevators which lead to it.
Working alien slaves don’t attack us, which is a great touch, it allows to see how they work, which aids the exploration spirit greatly. Third location is a stunning change of scenes – we’re inside the alien factory where apparently they create alien grunts. Long jump will come in handy when evading tentacles and gargantuas. Here we can see some alien equipment and alien slaves working with it. Second location brings more excitement: we are on the even bigger island and there’s cool sky with two suns. Then we will be challenged with finding least painful way down. Inside the caves, there are healing puddles, and strange alien equipment – “teeth” doors:Īnd in the end, one of the cones will lower itself, and we will resurface on top of it. We can use the Xen “airplanes” to get to the teleporter, or explore the caves. If we fall into one of them, it will spit us with great force, most likely we will then die from falling through great height. There are traps – “mouths” on the ground. In the first location we find ourselves in a big island with caves inside of it. And this chapter gives the most exploration. There’s nothing like exploring alien world which is different from ours. Xen is my favorite location in the whole Half-Life series.
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