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Plus lots of things suggest that you wear a helmet in HL2, like as said before, the headcrabs unable to hump your head, having a HUD, or even the fact that you can see clearly under water.įor other games like Portal where you are able to zoom I just think that in usual Valve fashion they just didn't bother to remove it or they saw it was necessary for the game play close to the end and didn't bother explaining it.

In HL2 you don't even have a proper model in tps, you just have a place holder model of the Gordon Freeman in HL1 but looped in idle animation and with the wrong texture. Remember goldSource is a big plate of spaghetti at this point, you can't really tell if it wont break something else. You could still say that why wasn't the model, the one of the scientist with the full suit, the main model, I think it might be a problem consistency for the model's reference in code, it could mess things up if it was another model. Added to which, the music by Joel Nielsen is simply sublime, fusing melancholy, anticipation, and menace into a crescendo of colliding sounds that fit the battle scene perfectly.You have to not think of this like "the third person view has him not wearing a helmet" this is not how it works, as said before here the tps model isn't canon, he doesn't have a helmet only because it was likely added for the multiplayer after release. Without putting a spoiler in here, I’ve reached the first major boss fight in Xen - clue: arachnid-– and the build-up, the tension, and the entire arena is a masterpiece of game design that cannot be overstated. But Gordon will not go at it alone the Rambo w has the cool HEV suit. It makes you want to explore the strange alien planet and with plenty of puzzles to take care of –which help you proceed through the game– I haven’t felt any of the tedium of the original. 2 will take place 10 years after the almost catastrophic events of Black Mesa. Also, there are a number of impossibly difficult boss fights that took me days, if not weeks, to complete, often leaving me very frustrated.īut this new version of Xen has been thoughtfully designed by a small group of gamers, the monotony has been stripped away and the entire scenario of Xen has been given a magical feel that was so lacking in the original. Most of the time I ended up falling off and into deep space or some kind of space-time-continuum. It was confusing, often monotonous, felt like it was part of a different game entirely and it contained some crazily difficult moments, like the island hopping, which I could never get right. To be honest, I was never a big fan of Xen in the original game.