Test Chamber
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Introduction
"They're waiting for you, Gordon, in the test chamber." - Scientist, Half-Life
The giant chamber featured in the beginning of Half-Life, in which a resonance cascade erupted, turning events into the global catastrophe which Half-Life and Half-Life 2 is about.
Architecture
The architecture of the Test Chamber is in a style probably best described as "industrial scientific".
Environment
To do: Add content...See Black Mesa (Industrial), for example.
NPCs
There are no actual enemies in the chamber, but Xen creatures were seen being teleported in and out of there during the resonance cascade scenario.
References
Layout
The Test Chamber scene from the beginning of Half-Life 1, as seen in the introduction sequence of Half-Life 2, is part of the Source SDK at: ...\sourcesdk_content\hl2\mapsrc\sdk_d1_trainstation_01.vmf.
