Denouement
Alex walks over to the nearby computer terminal and pushes the
“Start Train” button and jumps aboard. Then, like Harry S. Truman on a
whistle-stop tour through City-17’s countryside, you and Alyx (train)
ride off into the sunset. The Citadel, now in full view, starts
shooting these little energy balls into that cyclone that is forming
above it. Alyx says that this is the message being transmitted to
Combine central. At the same time, a bunch of escape pods rush
overhead. These are the same pods that gave us that retinal check back
in the Citadel. The screen goes white and Alex whispers Oh god.
What
is with Half-life games always starting or ending with a train ride? At
least Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest ended the with a train
entering a tunnel to imply the characters were going to have sex . If anything the Citadel’s explosion implies a cock-block by the Combine.
Time: 3hr18min *****
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