Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Developer(s)

Valve Corporation

Publisher(s)

Electronic Arts (retail)
Valve Corporation (Steam)

Series

Half-Life series

Release date(s)

October 10, 2007

Genre(s)

First-person shooter

Mode(s)

Single-player

Platform(s)

Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Shield

Engine

Source (Source 2013 SP)

Steam AppID

420

Written in

C++

Mod support

Yes (custom folder, Steam Workshop)

SDK

Source SDK

System requirements

• OS: Vista, Win 7 or later
• CPU: 1.7 GHz and/or Dual-core
• RAM: 1 GB RAM
• Storage: 6.5 GB disk space
• GPU: DirectX 9 compatible (FL 8.0 or higher)

For details, see below

Distribution

Retail, Steam

Links

Steam Store page (unlisted)
Community Mods for EP2 on Steam
Steam Workshop
ModDB page

Previous game

Half-Life 2: Episode One

Next game

Half-Life: Alyx

Half-Life 2: Episode Two is the second part of a trilogy of new games developed by Valve that expands the award-winning and best-selling Half-Life adventure with unique weapons, vehicles and newly created creatures.

As Dr. Gordon Freeman, you were last seen leaving City 17 with Alyx Vance when the Citadel exploded in a storm of unknown proportions. In Episode Two, you must hit and race the forces of the Combine, traversing the White Forest to only now a crucial packet of information stolen from the Citadel to an enclave of constant motion.

With the release of Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update in November 16, 2024, both Episode One and Episode Two are now accessible through Half-Life 2's main menu. As a result, both episodes are unlisted from the Steam Store and are only available as part of the Orange Box bundle.

Content

• Half-Life 2: Episode Two (ep2)
• Half-Life 2: Episode One + game DLLs (episodic)
• Half-Life 2 maps (hl2)
• Source shared (hl2)
• Source 2013 Singleplayer engine branch

Chapters

Toggle chapters Half-Life 2: Episode Two ChaptersToggle chapters
To The White Forest ep2_outland_01	This Vortal Coil ep2_outland_02	Freeman Pontifex ep2_outland_05	Riding Shotgun ep2_outland_06a
Under the Radar ep2_outland_09	Our Mutual Fiend ep2_outland_11	T-Minus One ep2_outland_12a

Limitations/Bugs

• For the list of Half-Life 2: Episode Two bugs, and to report issues with the game, see this GitHub page.

Gallery

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System Requirements

Windows:

• OS: Windows Vista, 7 or later
• CPU: 1.7 GHz and/or Dual-core
• RAM: 1 GB
• Disk space: 15 GB
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI Radeon X1600, Intel HD Graphics 3000 (with 128MB VRAM)
• Direct3D 9.0 compatible video card (with atleast DirectX 8 compatibility level or higher)

Note:Original disk requirements are 6.5 GB prior to 20th Anniversary Update, which installs Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life 2: Episode Two content alongside Half-Life 2: Episode One and thus increase disk space requirements.

Additionally with 20th anniversary update, the highest settings will be more demanding to run on older hardware due to changes to 3D skybox in some maps aswell as LOD being disabled.

Note:Due to Steam dropped support on Windows XP/Vista, users need run the game without Steam by running the hl2.exe executable with -game ep2. Running the game without Steam will disable Achievements.

Note:The latest version is no longer compatible with Windows XP since the 2022 Steam Deck update, and Windows 2000 (since 2010).
User using Windows XP can downgrade to previous version of the game here. But please note that this version does not include all the bug fixes and new features that were introduced with Steam Deck and 20th Anniverasry Update.

Any Steam copies of Half-Life 2: Episode Two since 2013 (SteamPipe), can be played without Steam.

macOS/OS X:

• OS: OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.3 (up to 10.14.6)
• CPU: 2.0 GHz and/or Dual-core
• RAM: 1 GB
• Storage: 15 GB
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx series, ATI Radeon X1600, Intel HD Graphics 3000
  OpenGL 2.1 compatible
• Audio: OpenAL compatible

Note:Mac version are no longer supported after macOS Catalina (10.15), due to this game only have 32-bit binaries.
User can manually build Intel 64-bit/Apple Silicon version of HL2 by following this guide.

Linux:

• OS: Ubuntu 12.04, SteamOS 1.0 or later
  Other Linux distros supported.
• CPU: 2.0 GHz and/or Dual-core
• RAM: 1 GB
• Storage: 15 GB
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx series, ATI Radeon X1600, Intel HD Graphics 3000
  OpenGL 2.1 compatible
• Audio: OpenAL compatible

Note:The system requirements for Half-Life 2: Episode Two on Linux are unofficial, based off Windows/Mac info, as well as other Source games that support Linux, such as Portal 2.

See also

• Category:Half-Life 2: Episode Two Entities
• Half-Life 2: Episode Two Particle Effect List
• List of EP2 Soundscapes

External links

• Half-Life 2: Episode Two on Combine OverWiki
•  Half-Life 2: Episode Two on Wikipedia