I honestly don't know. We don't see that much of earth in Half Life 2. One city could have 6 million while another has 500,000. We just dont have enough information to know for sure. No clue, the western world is probably gone eluded to by the red x on the globe in hla and that the resonance cascade made America the probable epicenter. ModDB Rating: 9.4. Created by: Team Psykskallar. Cry of Fear at ModDB & Cry of Fear at Steam. Although Half-Life itself is full of jumpscares with its headcrabs in shafts and aliens appearing out A fun, inclusive, and active community to talk about Half-Life, Valve, and over 20 years of community content! | 15814 members I think I can assume we all know the standard open world gameplay: you wander around a large map, do missions, collect collectibles, fight bad guys and take down enemy fortresses. Half-Life is not open world. Half-Life 2 and its episodes are slightly more open, and its maps are a lot bigger and allow a lot more exploration, but they're still The decision to double back to a time before Half-Life 2 and cast you not as the crowbar-wielding Gordon Freeman but instead the pistol-slinging Alyx Vance is a wise one, freeing Valve up from at Hello everyone, I Present you a new project half-life 2. The title says it all: the map will be the storyline hl2, ep1 and ep2, but it is not limited. At any time, you can go beyond the story locations and wander through the open world, filled with the atmosphere of Half-Life 2. Also on the map will be 2 more cities: City-14 (City-17 beta 2003 Genre (s) Sandbox. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Garry's Mod is a 2006 sandbox game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. The base game mode of Garry's Mod has no set objectives and provides the player with a world in which to freely manipulate objects. Other game modes, notably Trouble in Terrorist Town and Prop Hunt So it was before the events of Half-Life 2 but after the events of Half-Life. This explains why no one can figure out when it happened. It also was while Alyx was a kid, so it was not too long after Half-Life, because she says that her dad used to work with you in Black Mesa. So, it happened a while after Half-Life. Wow, that was a long answer. Episode 2 is a big improvement over one and actually feels more fleshed out and varied. It plays like some of the better segments of Half Life 2 and has a pretty good story. Most of this DLC is about fighting the alien species and traveling between different locations and it is semi open World. Rights to the World War II mod Day of Defeat were bought by Valve and it too became standalone, while the modders who made the original Team Fortress for Quake were hired to develop Team Fortress yWRz.