http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=58579

Wrar!

Looks cool but i dont really like the idea of Alyx being such a big charactar. I don't think she was really used enough to have much of an impact on the game. I actually found her rather annoying. I'll still buy the expansion anyway just because its Half Life but I dont like that idea. Oh well.

So is she going to speak during the expansion? It would be a bit weird if she didn't.

I think it would be better if at least there were pauses where Gordon "responds" so you can imagine what he's saying, which keeps the aim of "you being Gordon" but doesn't make him seem like a mute.

[edit: Just read the article and you don't play as Alyx, so disregard the bit about Alyx, but the rest still stands - Matt]

Gah, that article is such a tease.

would like to know how Alyx and everyone else in city 17 survives the explosion caused by gordon....

still sounds fun...maybe we could possibly be playing as barney again?

Maybe it'll pick up as Shepard from teh Opposing force pack for HL1. We never knew what happened to him...

He got left on xen.

Intervention via G-Man?

I like how they advertise the d3 expansion in the middle of the article...

HL2 expansion? Yay!!

/me dances

I want to see Shepard back soon.
There was a disturbing lack of him in HL2.

I just want a decent sniper rifle.. the crossbow sucked.

If he could save City 17 from an explosion that huge, couldn't he just kill Breen himself?

If he can teleport anywhere and manipulate time, why couldn't he have just killed Breen himself?

He's probably a sissy!

Just because he can, doesn't mean it'd work - having Gordon there, having him go after Breen, probably set in motion things that needed to be.

That, and he's probably a sissy.

What if the G-man cant kill anyone? So far we've never seen him kill anyone...

'Cause he's a SISSY!

Wow, glad I finished the game last night since this thread is sadly lacking in spoiler tags.

Whoever you play in this expansion, I hope it's not similar in length to the "last-ditch-cash-cow-milking" minigame that was Blue Shift. I did, however, like Opposing Force (maybe it'll get Source-ized like HL1 did? :))

If you shoot at the G-Man, nothing happens. Maybe he isn't really there so he couldn't kill Breen (Yes, I'm sure you can find plenty of instances where he directly influenced objects in the world around him).

I like the idea of more content, but I don't want to buy anything else.

I'd like to know that too... If I remember correctly, it was something to do with destabilizing the teleporter, which was string-based. I'm not too sure on the physics here, but string energy is orders of magnitude more powerful than nuclear energy.

Strings notwithstanding, to teleport a person would probably require converting them to energy, and a 60 kg person would contain rougly 5.0 * 10 ^ 18 joules of energy. A one-megaton nuclear weapon can produce about 4.1 * 10 ^ 15 joules of energy. So the explosion should have been equivalent to about 1000 megatons.

That's huge. And considering the height of the citadel, it would be like an air-burst nuclear detonation, which causes even more destruction.

But without the radiation. Now that's good for the enviornment.

Maybe G-man's like a ghost and can't interact with the physical universe?

True, very true... although you'd probably get an initial burst of EXTREMELY powerful gamma rays; that would be bad enough. But no lasting radiation.