out this summer.
As for where Aftermath is set, and the timeline, it's very much a logical continuation from where Half-Life 2 left off, as Laidlaw goes on to explain in the PC Gamer feature: "[Aftermath] deals with the events and issues set in motion during Half-Life 2. You've done critical damage to the Citadel. The whole place is going to go up, taking out City 17 and what's in its immediate radius. You and Alyx are leading the flight from the city getting up close and personal with some of the creatures and sights from the end of the game." Interestingly, the assumption that you continue to play as Gordon isn't justified anywhere in the text; it's possible - and perhaps more likely given the game's ending - that you play as someone else instead.
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)
on the Lost Coast:
"We knew we hadn't reached the limits of graphics with Half Life 2. We had the idea to create one level that would extend the Half-Life 2 universe, and test our strategies for next generation art. We called it The Lost Coast. We picked the most ambitious, most difficult area to create. It's a coastline with a lot of rocks, a village, and a church. We have a lot of wet surfaces, nature, architecture and exteriors. We wanted strong themes; very defined rocks, a lot of water, really detailed, almost organic looking architecture down to a brick and a shingle," notes Antonov in PC Gamer.
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)
Good.
― David Svensson (deangulberry), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)
― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Sunday, 10 April 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)
― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Sunday, 10 April 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 10 April 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)