I am truly in love with City 17's atmosphere: the movement, the ambience sounds, the people walking and talking. All of these things make City 17 alive and I really love it.
4 years ago | 20
I enjoyed that we were able to get a better glimpse into what life on a Combine controlled Earth looks like. Being able to see more Xen wildlife and fuana causing havoc to our ecosystems definitely made the wold seem much more alive as well.
4 years ago | 40
I really liked the xen stuff, cause it reminded me a lot about HL and also the snark in a jar.
4 years ago | 21
A shame that we didn't get to explore more of C17 in the start of the game- like in HL2. Would have loved to interact more with friendly npc's and such.
4 years ago | 14
It’s interesting to note that people on Earth weren’t wearing the denim uniforms like in HL2.
4 years ago | 28
Holy shit it would most DEFINITELY have to be expanding on the Universal Union, I love the new units so much, especially the Grunts.
4 years ago | 11
I really liked the expansion of the Combine lore and seeing City at a much larger scale. I found it interesting to see that the Combine had the Infestation Control and that Engineer Labor force which we didn’t see in HL2 or its episodes. I hope we get to see more of these HL:A Units and the labor forces in future games. (If they ever happen lol)
4 years ago | 4
I really liked the Xen fauna storytelling because I've always been interested in what happened to residential and urban areas during the Resonance Cascade and following portal storms. The apartments we saw had been long abandoned, probably before the Seven Hour War, and Alyx had her unique adventure well after the Combine established dominion over Earth. I also love getting a peek at what regular people- take Larry, for instance- did to ensure their survival in an apocalyptic world.
4 years ago | 1
It's a bit of both returning to City 17 and the expanded lore, since there's both to be seen within the world by observing it and through character dialogue, and of course speculating on all the new combine tech and weapons.
4 years ago | 1
I like the xen wildlife that we get to explore since HL1. It gives us a glimpse on what that place was made out of and how it works through infestation.
4 years ago | 2
All the Zen fauna definitely A close second but ive definitely been waiting to see the combine on some next gen on baby
4 years ago (edited) | 2
The models and audio files were amazing! If you look at mods for Half-Life 2 that have come after Alyx's release, you'll see they've incorporated a lot of sound files!
4 years ago | 0
I liked all the combine stuff and city 17 though I wish we would have spent more time in city 17
4 years ago | 7
They really dropped the ball with writing and characters
4 years ago | 3
I'm really tied on the combine's expanded lore and xen's effects on earth. Ultimately I voted for the latter because of jeff
4 years ago | 2
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Those of you who have played or watched playthorughs of Half-Life: Alyx, what did you like the most out of the below?
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