Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 defines a new benchmark in gaming with startling realism and responsiveness. Powered by then-new 
Source technology, Half-Life 2 features the most sophisticated in-game characters ever witnessed, advanced AI, stunning graphics and physical gameplay. This is the first game requiring installation of Steam when it came out back in 2004.
Half-Life 2 is the successor to 
Half-Life, and a sequel takes place after 
Half-Life: Alyx. A sequel to Half-Life 2 called 
Half-Life 2: Episode One, was released in 2006.
It is also available for the 
Original Xbox console, aswell as the 
Xbox 360 and 
PlayStation 3 as part of the console version of 
The Orange Box.
Content
- Half-Life 2 maps (
hl2) - Source shared (
hl2) - Source 2013 Singleplayer engine branch
Chapters
- Point Insertion
- "A Red Letter Day"
- Route Kanal
- Water Hazard
- Black Mesa East
- "We don't go to Ravenholm..."
- Highway 17
- Sandtraps
- Nova Prospekt
- Entanglement
- Anticitizen One
- "Follow Freeman!"
- Our Benefactors
- Dark Energy
Credits
These are the official credits for "Half-Life 2" as released in October 2004:
Voices:
Voice Casting:
Voice Recording:
Voice recording scheduling and logistics:
Translations:
Crack Legal Team:
Thanks to the following for the use of their faces:
Special thanks to everyone at:
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Technical notes
Note:Although Source mods are often described as being "for Half-Life 2", they actually use Source SDK Base. SDK Base is available to anyone who owns any Valve Source game and provides all of Half-Life 2's content (except maps and vcd scenes) on a static branch of the engine.Note:As of May 26 2010, the branch of Source under which Half-Life 2 originally ran (
/
) no longer exists on Steam. Very, very old mods which base themselves directly on the game (as opposed to Source SDK Base) are unlikely to work any more!Note:The 64-bit version of Half-Life 2 (for Windows only), which used to be existed around 2005-2006, are no longer available.