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				*Half-Life 2*
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Half-Life 2 FAQ/Walkthrough
For Xbox 360, PC, PS3
Version 1.0 (4/3/08)
Written by Brad Russell "TheGum"
Email: lunatic_252000@yahoo.com
Website: www.thechaosuniverse.com
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Version 1.0 - finished the guide, just for the love of the game.
(4/3/08)


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Table Of Contents
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Use Ctrl + F to quick find in this guide.

	Section:		Code:

1. A Brief Foreword
2. Controls			CON2222
3. Starter Tips			TIPS333
4. Walkthrough			FAQ4444
(type in either the name or the chapter and number)

	Chapter 1: Point Insertion
	Chapter 2: "Red Letter Day"
	Chapter 3: Route Kanal
	Chapter 4: Water Hazard
	Chapter 5: Black Mesa East
	Chapter 6: "We Don't Go To Ravenholm..."
	Chapter 7: Highway 17
	Chapter 8: Sandtraps
	Chapter 9: Nova Prospekt
	Chapter 9a: Entanglement
	Chapter 10: Anticitizen One
	Chapter 11: "Follow Freeman!"
	Chapter 12: Our Benefactors 
	Chapter 13: Dark Energy


5. Weapons			GUNS555
6. Enemies			BAD6666
7. Author Info / Copyright	



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* 1. A Brief Foreword                                                         *
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This game came out in late 2004, and now in early 2008 I am making my guide
for this wonderful game. Yes, I started writing guides a long time after this
game came out, so it's a wonder I even made this guide. The release of The
Orange Box last year packaged this game and Episode One along with the new
stuff. Though I did cover the episodes after The Orange Box was released, I
still kept finishing this guide for a long time. It's a shame too, because
there was time.

So why did I make this guide? Simple, this my second favorite game of all 
time. With a recent re-release on a console, I just couldn't miss the chance
to pay tribute to what will go down as a classic. The short and simple, you
have not played a game until you've played this game.

TheGum.



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* 2. Controls ( CON2222 )                                                     *
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Here are the 360 controls:

A - jump
B - reload
X - pickup/use/activate
Y - flashlight
RT - fire primary
LT - fire alternate
RB - Gravity Gun/last gun
LB - sprint
RS - look/aim; click to zoom
LS - move; click to crouch
START - pause; save game
BACK - move squad (not used in Episode Two)

The PC has standard FPS controls, and the same since the last game. For all
three of you with PCs and without knowledge of the controls, you can choose
what buttons do what in the options menu.

The PS3 controls mimic the Xbox 360, I assume.



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* 3. Starter Tips ( TIPS333 )                                                 *
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#1. Explore to success - always search areas for health and ammo. The areas are
not too expansive, so a little searching won't kill you. Don't confure this
with over-exploring, if there is such a thing, but if you are just wanting
to get through the game ASAP, you don't need to explore the place to death.

#2. Use the Gravity Gun when you can - if you see a saw blade, that's an 
obvious clue to use the GG. See a lot of gas tanks and red barrels? Same story.
Even a rock or normal barrel will be enough to inflict damage.

#3. A loaded gun is a not happy gun - sitting on a full clip of ammo in any
weapon does you no good, and you get plenty of ammo throughout.

#4. Conversely, an empty clip can be holstered to reload - if a gun is empty
and you don't have time to reload, just switch to another gun and after a time
that old gun will reload.

#5. Chuck a grenade into big groups - simple as that. Tossing a grenade will
send it pretty far, so always know your range.

#6. Don't forget to run - not just the normal stride, you also have a sprint 
button. It's your only way to avoid charging enemies, but don't forget to use
it during normal encounters.

#7. Play for achievements later - some can be attained during a normal run, but
don't go after the more elaborate ones until after you get through one game at
least. Don't forget you can check your achievement progress from the pause 
menu. Achievement whores are the lowest of the low, so don't expect my 
sympathy, even though it's my job to help you. And duh, this is for the 360 
owners.



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* 4. Walkthrough ( FAQ4444 )                                                  *
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Half-Life 2 Walkthrough


Done on The Orange Box on the Xbox 360. I believe there are only a few spots
that are different than on the PC, but I could be very wrong.


==========
Chapter 1: Point Insertion		
==========

*NOTE: It may be a good idea to turn on the subtitles from the pause menu, and
it doesn't hurt.*

Submission
-----

You start this crazy journey on a train. Move to the other passengers and 
interact if you like. Step off and follow them and watch the various happenings
that will occur. Step through the revolving gate and speak with a woman by the
fence, then keep moving. In the table area you can interact with more 
people. Then go through the fence-path and just follow the directions given
by the guards. Step through a doorway only to get trapped. Look right and 
wait for the door to open; go through as instructed (you can stop by one door
and peek inside for a bit of a scene). Enter the room when told and if you 
haven't figured out this is all a "scene", you will be pleasantly surprised.

*NOTE: When I say "a bit of a scene", that means you just watch something 
happen; when I say "cutscene" or "scene", that means you just flow with the 
movement around you. There are no traditional cutscenes in the Half-Life 
universe, so you will always have to be in motion or you will miss out on 
stuff. Just turn or move or look in a direction during these scenes, but don't
get too relaxed as these scenes tend to end abruptly.*

The scene is over when Barney tells you to get inside a room. Do so and climb
up the ladder. Pick up a crate and place it under the open window, then jump on
and jump down. Open the door and go through for a loading.

Up the steps, through the door, and then you run into a guard. He instructs 
you to pick up the can on the ground. Just pick it up and drop it into the 
trash can to move along (or pick it up and toss it in his face and then run
backward if you want).

*NOTE: Two achievements for the Orange Box users here. One is "Defiant" and
the other is "Submissive". Just save before you pick up the can, then pick up
the can and toss it into the guards face. Then load that save and do it the 
right way by placing the can in the trash.*

You can visit the poor saps in line for food, and then go outside. Talk and 
take in the sights if you wish, then head down the road on the right. Peek in 
through a guarded door for a bit, then keep going. Look toward a roadblock to
see some very nice foreshadowing of things to come, but no time soon. Turn 
around, jump on a dumpster, take the ladder, and then drop down on the other
side of the fence. Take a left in the alley to see a bit of a scene and then 
go the other way before you get taken into custody. 

Speak with two concerned citizens, and then go play on the playground of 
course. You can actually test out the physics here, but then go toward the 
cops and then into the doorway on the left for a load screen.

Go through the door and then up the stairs to the level where you see some cops
down a hallway. Take this hallway and enter the room of the other citizens. 
You can speak with them if you like, but then go back out into the hall. Go
past the room that the cops broke into and enter another room with some 
citizens. Stop and chat for a little bit and then back into the hallway. Go to
the stairwell and go up one level. Enter the hall and into a room where a guy
tells you to enter. Run through the rooms to get to the other side of the hall
and head for the stairwell on the other side. Don't go down, go up to avoid 
the approaching cops and run into yet another safe room. Run to the doorway
nearby for a load screen.

Keep running up and into an attic. Go left and jump out the hole. Follow the 
ramp up and then go left to get to the ledge. Follow the narrow path connected
to quite a few buildings as cops shoot at you, and then jump through the first
open windows you see. Go down the steps and into the tiny room to enter a 
scene. You awake to see the friendly face of Alyx. Follow her to a loading.


==========
Chapter 2: "A Red Letter Day"
==========

Calm Before the Flight
-----

Keep following and this long scene will end up and continue in a lab. You run
into Dr. Kleiner and Lamarr. Barney comes in and turns on a computer screen; 
you can switch the screen to see a very familiar character. Then go grab the 
HEV suit and then follow the doc to a power station by the door. 

*NOTE: Near the front door of this lab, you'll find a strange machine on a 
table with a cactus in it. All you have to do, I think, is just keep pushing
the button on either side of the mini teleporter and you'll eventually break
it. I used a can around Kleiner's workstation and that worked too. It may
take a while, but it will break. And aside from being really cool, you 360
owners get an achievement.*

Then it's into the teleporter room. Sit back and watch by the door. A plug will
fall during the first run, so pick it up and place it into the slot with the
red light. Flip the switch and Alyx will be off. Step into the machine when
told and just watch the rest.

When on the flip side, get off the walkway, go through the fence, and then take
a right to go up some steps. Go through the door for a load screen.

Stop at the corner and look up for Barney. He gives you a crowbar, but that's
about all he's good for. Zoom into the citadel if you wish. Then use your old
friend to whach at the planks in the doorway and go through. Break a crate in
the way and then hop down. Turn around (go left), and jump up into an open
train car. Smash the stuff in the way to get on the other side. Quickly hug the
same train car and get into a spot that doesn't touch the rail line that a 
train is coming from the left. Wait for the train to go by and then run behind
it. When you see an opening on the left, take it and go around the train car to
find an opening in another car. Go up the steps, then up the ladder, then
carefully hop from this train to the other train, and then hop over the fence
and down to the other side. Grab a health pach on the right wall if you need 
it and then break the planks on the doorway. Go through with the flashlight 
on to hit a load screen at the bottom of the stairs. 


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Chapter 3: Route Kanal
==========

Pullin' Teeth
-----

You can turn off the flashlight, that was just to let you know how to use it. 
Proceed down the hall and into another when you hear some commotion. Run to the
cops and kill the one with the gun first, then use it on the other cop. Break
the planks to get to the stairs and then have you gun ready as you head up. 
Kill the one cop and keep moving. 

When you get to the stairs leading up, be ready for a cop at the top. Go up and
go left to find the stairs to the ground, but stop at the mid-way point. Wait
for the train to come by and stop. Now hop on the train and use it to get to
the platform on the other side. Go up the ladder and turn around to the place 
you came from. Cops will come up the stairs, but if you shoot the red barrels,
you can take them out in one shot. Get to the doorway and bust it open. Go into
the room on the right and crouch so that the other cops can't shoot at you. Get
in the far corner and shoot the red barrels to open the doorway, or just move
the stuff out of the way. Go through with your gun ready and wait for a cop to 
pop up on the upper left behind the fence, so just shoot the barrels to kill
him. Bust the crate for ammo and bust the planks to go through.

When you hit the fence, look once again to the stairway you came from and shoot
one last barrel that you should barely see to kill more cops, or just hop over
the bent fence and run to the crawlspace. Either way, you will hop over the 
fence and follow the path to a crawlspace where you find some crates of 
supplies. 

Bust the vent cover on the other side and then crawl behind one of the pieces
of wood for cover. Get out your gun, get ready, stand up, and then run to the 
end of this walkway and fall down to the ground. Shoot the second red barrel
you see by a corner to get a cop, and if you go around the corner be ready
to shoot a rolling barrel, or jump out of the way. Kill the cop here and use 
the other barrels. Go up the steps before more cops join the mix. Get your 
crowbar out as you cross over a bridgeway to break the top crate in your way,
and then just hop over the bottom one to get moving. 

When you hit another railway, don't jump down. Follow the walkway left and jump
down when you see some supply crates down below. Jump down, break those crates
quickly, and then keep going left. When you hit the fence, immediately turn
right and find the opening. Jump down to the walkway and then down to the 
waters below. Just move down the waterway to a red container. Find the ladder
on the back, go up, and drop down the hole. Quickly run to the TV by the Vort
to see that one dude again. Get juiced by the vort and jump out. Bust the 
wooden piece in your way to hit a loading.

At the big construct of wooden boards holding up the train, just crouch and 
clear out enough on the bottom to get through. Go around to see a crow get 
eaten by a Barnacle, so just run past while the thing is busy. Get across the 
mud and over the hump to see some people being killed. Go right to the opening
of a pipe to see a dude get killed. Run around the corner and enter the pipe to
kill the two cops. At the other end will be a room with some supplies and a 
radio. Go stand by the radio if you want to hear the chatter. Climb up the 
ladder and shoot a red barrel to kill the cops by the turret. Get on the turret
and shoot the lone cop down the way.

Now will be your standard turret gunning. Shoot the approaching security bots
in the sky, but then get off the gun and look up to the right. Quickly shoot 
the middle red barrel before they can be used against you. Get back on the 
turret and some cops should be on their way. Shoot them, any bots, and any red
barrels you see; shoot the one on the right to create a walkway for later.
Kill all the cops from above and below until an armored car pulls up on the
right side. Get off the turret and hug the right wall to be out of sight. 
Follow the walkway (shoot the red barrel if you haven't to make the path) and 
you end up in a dirty tunnel.

You can avoid the first two Barnacle tongues by hugging the left side and going
through a pipe-piece. The third one probably needs to be shot down, then 
proceed into the open. It looks blocked off, but turn left and look for an 
ally in a pipe. Take the tunnel nearby and you end up in an area with nothing,
but look up. Through the hole you can shoot and kill at least one cop, the 
other will probably get away. Hop up and take the other tunnel to a water pit,
but immediately swim to the bottom and look up as red barrels are dropped. 
You should be able to swim into the far-right corner and stay at the bottom as
the explosions happen, then swim up and onto the ledge nearby to go down the
other tunnel; ignore the cops if you can, and ignore the items unless you can
get them easily.

You emerge on the other side of the blocked path. You can kill the cop up high
by shooting a small sliver of red barrel, then handle the other as you wish. 
When you move toward the wreckage, another drops from up high. When you move
toward the bridge, two cops appear on the bridge, so shoot the red barrels on
the bottom to bust the support beams and take them out. Collect some stuff and
go beyond the bridge to run into two more cops that drop in from both sides. 

Now go up the trash heaps and find the opening on the right that is covered by
three barrels, grab one or all three and take them with you as you slide down.
Use these or the other other barrels to bait the tongues and slip to the spot 
with the red barrels, but stop here. Look down the slope to see a mass of 
tongues. You want to toss down a red barrel, wait for it to get caught, and 
then shoot it as it rides up to take out a bunch of the beasts. Use the other
barrel if needed.

Get to the bottom and collect any supplies from the muck. Go up to the opening
on the right and wait as some barrels are tossed into the water. Then hop out
and start swimming to the left. Stay low to avoid the blasts and swim to the
right corner to find a ladder. Get up and hop into the water on the other 
side. Stay in between the wooden platforms for cover and stay under as you 
swim down the way. Get up on the platform on the left and have your gun ready.
Shoot all the red barrels down on and around the bridge, and then kill any
survivors. Watch out as you move across these platforms as barrels will be
dropped, so just jump backward or forward, whichever. Then jump to the 
other platforms and follow them to a broken opening in a pipe. Drop down at the
end for a load screen.

You land in a simple physics puzzle. The idea is to place all the concrete 
blocks at one end of the see-saw so that you can jump from the other and onto
the path up above. You find some in every corner, but don't miss the two in
the pipe under the saw. When you've carried and placed all onto the end by
the wall, get on the saw and jump from the end sticking up and get to the
path above. 


The Running Man
-----

At the end of the tunnel you run into the dreaded Hunter-Chopper. Just use the
sprint bottom to run past it, slide down the slope, weave through the debris,
go left to a walkway by the wall, kill or distract the Barnacle in the way, 
run to the door, move the barrel out of the way, and then jump through the 
door. 

If you look under the floor you see a lambda symbol; that means there are good
things nearby. Drop off the side on the right to find the stash of items below.
Go back up and up into a sewer area. Ignore the stuff to the left, which there
is another crate and some health in a crawlspace. Grab the red barrel in the 
dark corner and look down the slope to see more tongues. Send it down and 
shoot it enough so that it slowly burns. Quickly grab another item and toss it
down the middle; the result should be that the row of tongues behind the first
set will pick up debris as the final tongue down the middle gets distracted. 
Now slide down and get to the corner on the left to avoid any fire. Up the 
path and around the corner to run into essentially the same setup down this 
slope too. Pick up the barrel and after it blows you can just slide down the
left side and jump over.

Get to the door and wait for the fire to stop, then open and sprint down the 
path to the left and into a safe area. Pick up the supplies and proceed to a
load screen.

You will reach a blockage in the road. Just pick up the red barrel and set it
up against the wooden support beam, then stand back and fire to open the path.
Go through and bust some boards to reach a safe house with a friend. Watch as 
he goes to open the door. Get ready for three Manhacks to charge in. Use the
handgun to pump bullets into them, and then fall back to the crowbar if they 
get too close; save the other guy if you want the dialogue, but that's not
that important. Climb up the ladder on the wall to reach two crates by his
bed, then go across a plank to find some items in the upper corner. Fall down
and go through the doorway. 

Follow the path and when you turn the corner you will see more hacks on the 
other side of a fence. You have time to shoot them, but give them time and they
will find the opening at the top. Kill all three and go through, but when you 
round this corner you see more coming from behind some debris. Quickly put 
two bullets into one of the red barrels and then retreat into the previous 
hallway as the explosions take out the bots; clean up the survivors and move 
on. 

When you hit the doorway that leads to the outside, go a bit beyond it to find
a room with some supplies. Get back to the doorway with crowbar in hand. Open
the door, run across, move the objects out of your way, go through the door,
and then bust the thing in your way to get into a safe area. Stay on the 
ledge and get to the red pipe that leads to a vent cover by a red light. Bust
it off and go through with your light on. Have your gun out as a single 
Manhack will attack as you crawl toward the corner. You end up in a room with
a lot of crates. Bust them and grab what you can and go back, but upon exit the
vent you will see a cop run from the way you came, so just shoot the red 
barrel beside him. Hop down to the ground below. 

Move forward and a cop will rappel down, so just shoot the barrel behind him. 
Grab the SMG and use it on the other two down the way. Grab their ammo, but 
come back to the first dead guy. Look to the left to see a barrel covering a 
crawlspace. Grab that barrel and place it directly under the hole the first 
guy came from. Now get out your handgun and crawl down this space with your
light on. When you near the box a zombie torso will break it and come for you,
so just shoot its head. Behind it is a grenade. On your way back you will see 
a cop drop down, so have your sights on the barrel you placed for the easy 
kill. 

*NOTE: Not only was that crawlspace your first run-in with the undead, but
it's also an early grenade.*

At the water, time the fan-thing's spinning and jump in to swim through an 
opening down on the left. In this tunnel you can go up an opening for a quick
breather, then dive under and keep swimming. Go up when the path ends and get
back on solid ground. 

Follow the path to a pipe and follow the pipe to an area you've passed by
earlier. Have your handgun/SMG ready (whichever is more accurate for you), and
get the two cops that will try to surprise you. Carefully move toward the fence
to run into two more cops, one of which may release a Manhack, so kill all 
three. Go back into the pipe area and find the stairs on the side. Jump on 
the stairs so that you avoid the tongue and grab the stuff at the top. Jump
to or walk on the big pipe and follow it down. 

Wait for the steam to fall and then slip around the Barnacle tongue to an 
area on the right. Look down the adjacent tunnel and shoot the incoming hack.
Then grab the red barrel and send it into the nearest tongue, shoot the barrel
twice, then crouch as the explosion takes out all three beasts. Jump over the 
corner with the items and use any objects to bait any surviving tongues. Get
back on the pipe, wait for the steam to fall, and then keep moving. You will
see another lambda sign by some wooden boards. Crack the boards, fall down, 
and then find a crawlspace under the pipe to find the hidden stash. Crawl
back and take the other space to get on the path. 

Fall into the water and swim under to find a ladder to get back on level solid
ground. Have your handgun ready as you move forward and keep your sights on the
truck above. As soon as it starts dropping barrels you need to frantically fire
and get at least one to blow up, otherwise you should drop back into the water
and wait the explosions out. Come up and kill any cops and then go around the 
corner. Kill two cops that drop down by retreating a bit, then go kill the one
up high (all which can be done with your handgun).


Into the Murk
-----

Now take the tunnel on the side and keep your aim down toward the end for 
three Manhacks. There are two collections of supplies on the right side as you
move down the tunnel, but there will also be two waves of hacks. Destroy them
and move through the door and to a dark room where you can stock up on 
supplies. Go through the vent and fall into a lower spot. Bust the cover below
your feet, then whip out your handgun as you fall. Turn, spot the red barrels,
back up into a corner, and then wait for the Manhacks to get near the barrels
before you fire into the mass. Pretty much all you can do to avoid the many
explosions will be to crouch. Then use the handgun to kill any surviving hacks,
as well as the one or two that show up late. 

Now find a normal barrel in the room that is still standing right-side up, or
get a fallen one and drop it on another one to get it upright. Take this 
over to the wall where the blue pipe goes down; basically where the walkway
has no railing. Set the barrel by the wall and jump on it to get up to the 
walkway. Follow the path to the other room. 

In here you find a bunch of pipes going in all directions. Walk over to the 
corner, crouch, and look left. Drop down to the second-lowest brownish pipe. 
Get to the curve and then drop down to another brownish pipe. From here, drop
down to a small blue pipe. Now drop down to a brown pipe below that leads to
a valve and a crate. This crate and the other only have health packs. Just 
turn the valve to get the water level up and then swim to the ladder to get
back up. When you near the red light, you have two options: stand and kill the 
Manhacks, or jump over the rail and swim through the hole in the floor. Either
way, get back to the original room and find the hole in the floor. Swim through
it (FYI, press jump to unlatch from the ladder), and then swim through the 
pipe to reach the other area. 

Climb up the ladder for air and then dive back under. Swim to the bottom with
crowbar in hand and start breaking the boards that keep the boxes and spool
wheels under. You can break one or all, just make sure you don't drown during
the process (you can survive a while after your power goes red). Then get 
back up the ladder, jump onto the object you freed, and then jump up to the 
other side. Follow the path to a load screen.

Climb up the ladder here and jump onto some boards. Go off the sides of these 
to get over the fence. From the direction you entered this area, go left to 
run into a Manhack and some cops, going right will be another hack that might
come at you anyway. Kill all of them and find the broken ladder. Either jump
from this ladder to the area above, or use the barrel nearby. Collect the 
items and take the tunnel. Two more hacks to greet you. At the end of this
dark tunnel will be two Barnacles guarding some supplies, so handle them with
care. 

Come out into the open and take the ladder up. Follow the makeshift path up 
here to find another lambda stash. Fall down and proceed to reach a nasty 
looking area. Avoid the bubbling puddles of ooze which is radioactive. Fall
down and go up the ramp to get on some pipes that will lead to yet another 
stash. Get back on track and you will run into a safe zone with one guy 
fighting some headcrabs, but you don't have to help. Stock up on ammo and 
listen to the chatter before you head out. 

Walk over the board and then crawl under some debris to run into some shelling.
The guys will die, but you need to focus your crosshair on the tip of the 
pod to shoot the headcrabs as they come out. Kill those three, then watch your
feet for three more on the ground. Collect stuff and then move toward the 
fence to see a friend that cannot be helped, but you can shoot the crab to make
it shut up. Go around the corner and kill two more crabs coming from the pod.
Watch your step and go around the next corner.

You should see some zombies just laying around in the sewer pit nearby. Shoot
them first and quickly kill both. Cross the planks and be ready for one crab
in the dirt. Cross over the next planks to avoid the sparking wire. Near the
wall be ready for a zombie to bust through the metal sidings on the left, so
just rapid-fire kill him. To get through the crate you must avoid touching 
the sides. Quickly get past the door if you think you'll touch it. Stay low
and smash the crates, but be ready for a shell to fall at the end. On the 
other side, look to the metal beam over the ooze. When you cross it a zombie
will pop up, so run and jump to avoid. Then go grab that red barrel and toss it
to his side and blow it up, or kill him any way you can. Or just avoid it all
by running to the left and taking the wooden walkway to get out of this 
shelling zone. 

Follow the walkway to a safe house. The girl here will have the airboat ready
for action. Hop in and you're off.

Follow the radiation sludge all the way to a closed gate. Drive to the right
side of the gate, get out, and go toward the many boxes. Hop on the one by the
wall and look under the topmost box. You should see a headcrab that was meant
to surprise you; kill it. Smash the crate and then go to the valve and hold
down the bottom to turn it and lift the gate. Back to the airboat and go 
through. Maneuver around some debris in the tunnel until you hit a loading.


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Chapter 4: Water Hazard
==========

Go Green!
-----

Get to the end of the tunnel, but stop before you bust the boards in your way.
Zoom toward the red barn (station 7) and look to the walkway; do you see a 
familiar face? Ram through the boards and keep looking at him until he walks
away (it's the G Man if you haven't been paying attention, and no, he will not
be inside the barn).

Drive up to the dock and get out. Find the ladder and make your way up to the
shed with you gun ready. There will be two zombies inside, so stay near the 
wall and use cover to avoid the barrels they flinge at you. Kill them and jump
onto the broken stairs to get up. Crawl over the boards up here, smash a box, 
and when you get to the spot with two boards and a ladder, watch out for the
headcrab that might drop down, or will stay in the room above. Climb the ladder
to reach this room and whack the barrel holding the gear in place to drop the 
supplies. Just dive into the water to collect the goods, and then hop in your
boat to continue onward.

Start heading down the path and use the small ramp if you like as pratice for
when you reach the bigger ramp (all of this early riding is just to get you
familiar with this stuff for later when you're under fire). Then you will 
see a bridge with a man on it who will drop you some supplies when you get 
close, so take them and park the boat on the dry land ahead. Get out and go
left into a dark pipe. Follow the tunnel to the upper area and toss both blue
barrels into the water. Dive in and place both under the ramp and into a 
cage with another blue barrel. Now find the other barrel at the base of the
ramp and get it in the cage. Jump in the boat, back up a little bit, and then 
push it forward as hard as you can to nail the jump. 

Drive down and over the sludge to get on the path and you will see that your
presence is noticed. Follow the flying dropship until you see a landed dropship
that has slipped out some cops in your path. Run them over and jump out to 
finish the others off. Look down the path and up to see a flickering moniter
screen; another sighting if you look closely between the Dr. Breen images. Now
look up to the wall to find an opened pipe. Jump up to the ledge and find a 
red barrel nearby. Place the barrel under the opening and jump in. Follow the 
pipe, swim through some water, and then jump into a pool near some crates. Be
ready for a zombie when you near the crates, then grab the stuff and get back
out. Jump in the ride and keep moving.

*NOTE: To really see the G Man well in the screen, hold down the zoom button,
face the screen, and then repeatedly press pause until you get a good view
of the man in green.*

When you round the corner and see some cops drop down from a ledge, wait for 
them to drop and run them over, or quickly get around the next corner. Go to
the left wall to run up and over the high ramp, then just blaze down the trail.
Near a bridge with and APC, hug the right wall and ram through a couple of 
wooden platforms to kill some cops, then jump over the edge. Watch your path
as you drive under these next bridges because you don't want to hit a tongue;
go far right, then left under the second one. You will hit a load screen.

Go right around the corner and you will see some platforms down the way, but
then you will notice some bullets flying from a guy on a broken bridge. Simply
drive through the bottom support beams under him to take him out. Right around
the corner you will see a ladder against a wall, so get out and get up it. Get
to the door and go through. Stop and listen to the video message if you like.
Have your SMG in hand as you go through the door. You can safely visit the 
two rooms nearby for some items, but when you go around the corner you will
run into two cops. Try to avoid killing them with the red barrel. Then go to
where they were waiting and look through the window to see a guard and three
Manhacks. Kill all four. Now you should grab that red barrel and go 
back around the corner and place it behind the force-field barricade, just for
later. 

Go to the room where the hacks came from and grab some grenades. Open the door
and run to some cover, preferably on the right. Either toss up and away toward
the turret gunner, or poke out and toss, or just use your guns to kill him, 
any way that works. Then go to the door behind the turret, open it, and toss in
as many grenades as you can in all directions of the room before you go inside.
There should be three cops in here, so kill them all. Go in and collect any 
ammo and be sure to not miss the health station on the wall. Go up the stairs 
on the left and through the door. Out here you see a non-working valve. Go as
far to the left as you can, then look right and then use the handgun to pop
the red barrels farthest away. The resulting explosion will send a ram into
the gate and bust it open.

Now backtrack a bit to the turret and get on it ASAP and start killing the 
cops that have appeared. Mow down the easy ones, and then destroy all the boxes
the others hide behind. Take the ladder on the blue container nearby for a 
box inside (nothing in the other one) and then go back to the way you came. Get
some grenades from the crate and then get to the garage area. You can try to 
toss grenades all around to get the three guys near the APC's, or just shoot
them. When you go around the corner shoot at the red barrel you placed earlier
to kill the turret gunner, or kill him with a grenade. In the very first room
you started from, toss in a grenade to get three cops and mop up the survivors.
Collect any items and ammo before heading back to the boat.


Sewer Surfin'
-----

Go through the smash gate and run over the two boxes in the water for some 
armor. Follow the water and jump over a ledge behind a bridge and keep moving
to avoid the rockets and bullets. Under one bridge, then hug the right to avoid
some Barnacles and run over some cops under another bridge. Move jump, cops,
bridges, and rockets until you hit a stretch with some platforms and a bunch
of stuff in front of two tunnel openings. You will probably be hit a few times
by rockets, but when you near the wreckage it will all go in flames, so hug the
right wall and quickly get into the safety of the waterway. You will hit a 
load screen soon after.

Drive until you hit a ruined area with another lambda logo on a column. It is
possible to drive on the pipes in the ground and somehow pick up the items in
the basket. The conventional approach is to get out, go to the basket on the 
ground, pull off both blocks, and that will cause the other basket to drop. 
Grab the items and continue in the boat.

At the end of the tunnel you see an open gate, but head right because the gate
will close anyway. Avoid the fire of the one dude on land and find a dark 
dock in a corner. Hop out, bust the lock, and go through the door.

Go to the table and grab the Magnum. Quickly now you have to choose either to
use this gun or the handgun on the two enemies coming through the door; the 
magnum is slow to fire, but you can fire off enough pistol rounds into the 
cop's heads to kill both as well as the third that shows up. Collect the items
and proceed with the magnum in hand.

At the stairs kill the cop at the top. Go left and around through the crates
with the sprint on, and kill the dude around the corner who tosses up a 
Manhack. Hide in the overturned container and then run out and around the 
corner, under a wooden platform, kill a dude in a container, and then run into
that container to hide. Grab the items and get to the other end. Kill the two
dudes that appear outside, then take the path by the fence and go left to get
into the warehouse.

Kill the Manhacks near you, then get to the right corner and kill any cops by
the stairs. There are three hacks in total, two men by the stairs, and about
three more cops in the upper level. You can also use the containers for cover,
just stay away from the front door you came through to avoid the chopper fire.
Just a few items on the ground level. When you go up the stairs you will 
trigger more enemies to appear from the front door and the opposite walkway, 
so use the magnum for quick kills. Hop over the three containers to reach the 
other side.

Sprint by the windows, and when you reach the bend in the path, sprint to the 
wall and duck to avoid the chopper fire from the windows. Move to the doorway
with crowbar in hand and smash the crates in your way. Have a gun out when you
go through because there will be one guy behind the stairs, and two guys down
on the stairs. Get to the bottom for some boxes and both kinds of stations on
the wall. Have the magnum ready again.

Run out and go to the top right corner to find the opening. Kill the guy in
your way, go down some steps, kill a guy behind a fence, and then jump on the
ladder. Kill the two guys in the tower and then quickly jump on the turret
that is facing the chopper. Just keep the crosshair on the chopper and hold 
down the fire button for as long as the chopper stays in place. Then switch
to another turret when the chopper moves. Soon the thing will retreat. Collect
any items and then press the button on the console up here. Climb down the 
ladder and go right to find a walkway. Get to the end, hop over, and then swim
back to your airboat to go through the newly opened gate. 

Down the path a new chopper will appear, so make a right turn when you can. 
This fresh chopper will try to outrun you and drop mines in your path, so you
should keep the gas down and try to outrun it. Avoid the mines and when you
turn to face what looks like a dead-end, run up the slope and go right to get
across the divider. Swing back under the bridge and follow the path. Run into
a pipe to be safe and hit a loading.

At the end of the tunnel, go left and keep avoiding the chopper's attacks. The
best thing you can do is just try to not be directly below it or directly
behind it as the mines drop, so just stay a bit to one side. When you see some
debris in the path, go left to get around it. Then you will see some pipe
pieces down the way. You need to ramp straight through the first one to get 
up to the rest of the pipe-way, so just let the mines explode and set up a 
straight line onto the ramp or you will fail the jump and have to retry.

Follow the path of pipes and when you hit a long stretch you will see a ramp 
at the end. You need to hit this ramp straight on as well, and if you do you 
will land on the smooth tops of more pipes. You have to stay on these tops to
make it into another tunnel, so just keep her steady and straight; good luck
recovering if you fail. Consider saving or using the autosaves if you do fail.
Follow the tunnel to a load screen.

Soon after you will be at the end, and don't miss the two boxes in the ground.
Drive to the fork in the road and go right, then hug the left wall to follow 
the ramp up and over, but then watch out for all the mines. When you get
back to the water, go right again and under a bridge. When you near the next
tunnel, go up the left side and wait for the mines to go off before going
through.

At the end of the short tunnel, stay on the far right as you go under both
bridges to avoid the tongues and men. Then turn right to get on the path. After
the bridge, hug the right wall to follow a ramp and dash over the end to land 
near a warehouse and quickly get inside. Park the boat on a lift and then get
out to collect loot in some crates and refill your health with the stations on
the wall. Then go turn the wheel to lower the lift and the boat. You can drop
down, but you lose health. Instead, just walk out the open door, find a ladder
below you on the right, press the activate button or fall on the ladder, and 
then go down to jump on the lift. Continue the ride.

Go through the open gate and turn left to see some shells start to land about.
One will hit a smokestack, so kinda slow down and let it fall, then ramp over
the smooth part in the middle. Then make a charge for a tunnel under an APC,
so zigzag a bit to dodge the rockets in case you don't see them. At the turn is
safety and a loading.

Go a bit further to reach the clear water. Face the boat to the right and get
out. Turn around and enter the pipes. Going to a puddle in the second one will
be a crate and a zombie, so watch out. Find the ladder on the wall to the left
and get up. Jump down to the top of the first pipe and follow the walkway to a
metal roofing. Get to the other edge and look down to see a platform. Just
run over the side and push forward to land there. You need to literally push
this stove over the side and into the basket device below. After it falls, you
jump back to the ground and then throw the lever next to it. The ramp nearby
will be up, so go up and over to get out.

Go left and into the friendly tunnel. Go through the gate when it opens and 
park on the dock. Get out and meet with the allies. Crack the boxes to get some
items and then follow the dude into the room for a bit of a scene. Come back 
out to see your shinny new boat, except for the shiny and new part. Get in 
when the gun is ready and move along when the gate opens.

*NOTE: The Vortigaunt here has a lot, and I mean a lot, to say. You can stay
here for a few minutes and go through it all if you like, but at a point he
will begin to repeat. There's no need to however.*


Payback
-----

Test the gun out on the debris and then the Barnacles on the ceiling soon out
of the gate. Break some of the debris down the tunnel, but have some ammo 
ready at the end when you face the Hunter-Chopper. Just spray a few bullets 
into it and the thing will retreat. 

Proceed and shoot down a platform on the right to get a single crate, then 
move on and over the ramp. Enter the gate and when you get to another gate it
will close and you will be trapped. Turn around in the boat and kill the first
three guys to appear, then move toward the first gate and get the guys that 
appear high to the right. Get on the walkway on the left and then ramp over the
fence at the end. Around the corner is an APC firing upon you, so either 
squeeze out enough ammo to blow it up and the missiles, or just go past it.
Either way you will run into more guys on platforms, which you can ramp over
a ramp on the left for a crate and ignore them. Around the bend, shoot some 
guys above a tunnel entrance, then more along the inside of the tunnel, and 
then a load screen.

*NOTE: This is a big note, because for some reason the auto-aiming on the 
Xbox 360 version is so terrible about those missiles. You really have to 
disregard the missiles, which the auto-aim doesn't let you, or you unload a 
whole stock of ammo at one time, which doesn't last long. Because once you're
out you won't have much hope to blow up the vehicle since it launches so many
missiles, and when you hit them they don't seem to blow up. So 360 owners 
should definately consider just blazing past these first couple of APC's.*

Soon after and after out of the tunnel you run into another APC on a bridge.
Again, either blow it up or zoom right by. There is also a guy on the left. 
Go under the bridge and keep going until you hit a stretch where a dropship
will fly overhead. Shoot the APC before it lands, but either way just zoom into
the tunnel at the end. Barnacles under the next two bridges.

At the fork, go right and to the enemies. Hop out and go forward. When you get
close to the structure on the left, a zombie will rise from behind a barrel
and some headcrabs will drop in. Dodge the barrel toss and just use the pistol
or a well-placed grenade to clear them away. Now climb the ladder and claim
the supplies in the lambda stash. 

Get back on the boat and now take the left path where you ramp up into a 
tunnel. Kill the Barnacle and zombies inside and then ramp out the end. Just
peek around the corner and shoot a red barrel. Look from under the bridge down
the way to see a cop sending barrels into the water, so kill him and let the 
flames begin. If you look to the slope at the end you should see even more 
barrels rolling into the water, so blow up what you can. Kill the Barnacle to
the left under the bridge. Now to get around the flames you must use the solid
ground on the right, but you may get a bit burned. When you get on the slope
there will be more barrel rolling, so just camp at the bottom and shoot all 
the barrels. When they stop, go around and the divider and kill the three cops
that appear as you proceed. One Barnacle in the tunnel ahead.

On the other side, when you reach some red containers in a corner, get out and
you will find some items in the first one only. Keep riding to a boat area 
where two APC's will be up high. Your best bet is to ride around the crashed 
boat that's kinda in the middle (that turn near the wall is tricky), hit the
first one and ride under it, then swing back toward the boat as you drive 
under the other APC and get some shots from below it, and then back around 
the boat. Basically, just stay relatively under the APC's to get in good shots
and stay in motion so that the other doesn't slay you. And watch out for their
turrets up close. 

*NOTE: Even on the 360, if you stay under the APC's the auto-aim won't be able
to target the missiles, so the same rules apply.*

After they are gone, go to the back of the boat to find a red container. Park
near it and get out. Either go to the side of it to find a crack, or go to the
back, either way just blow up the red barrels (just get them burning of course,
they blow up just the same). Now go through the open container and follow the
path and stick the jump to reach the pipe that spills out in a canal. Go left
and take the first right to hit a loading.

Move along until you hit a big expansive field. Go right first and around a 
boat to find a single box. Near the boat (going left now) you will see a pipe
half-way stuck in the ground. Get the box on top and crawl inside for more
items. That should be enough, but do know that there will be more crates in
every area of this field; but 100 health and 100 armor will be more than 
enough to get through this fight.

Now when you're going left toward the gate you will hear a siren go off and 
soon another chopper will be after ya. In front of the gate is a large body
of water with lots of red barrels. The idea is for you to blow those up now
so that they don't blow up on you later, so get a few before the chopper gets
close and do so at any pause in the firing. Last time I remind you, crates with
health all around.

You can fire upon the chopper from far away, or when it's right above you. 
Try for the longshots, but never miss a chance to spray it when it's flying 
over your head. Simple as that, just shoot the thing. 

Early on this is easy as the thing will only fire back at you as it flys by.
You should also be in motion and it's probably best if you drive toward it. 
But the extra shots you get if you sit and unload a full stock will help, but
your health and the stock won't last long that way. Better to just drive in 
the opposite direction and settle for the quick but accurate shots. 

After about three passes and some good shooting on your part, the chopper will
be damaged and make a sound. Now what it will start doing is flying over as it
did before, but this time it will drop tons of mines, three rows no less. Your 
best option is to sit in one spot (preferably directly under and in front of 
the chopper) and shoot for at its belly. This will not only get in the shots 
you need, but you should also get some of the mines from the middle row that 
would otherwise fall on you. Either way, after the chopper flies overhead you 
should drive sorta down the middle line, but a bit to the side as you try to
clear out the center mines; you're not driving directly down the middle row,
you should drive down between two rows and against the flow. If done correctly
you may very well never get hit by a mine.

This goes one for about three more times, so long as you are still shooting 
the chopper, and then it will blow up. Now all you have to do is restock your 
health and then drive to the gate. Go to the left and up the ladder to turn
the wheel that opens the gate. Drive through.

*NOTE: If you want, go straight ahead of the gate toward the wall with two
pipe openings. You will see that one is cracked open. Go to it and turn around
to find a barrel across the water and by some rocks. Get this barrel and 
turn it over by either dropping it on the airboat (hard), or dropping it 
against an edge like the pipe opening (just be sure to catch it as it falls).
Place the standing barrel on the ground (hold it as you drag it along the 
ground and into place or you will most likely tip it over) and jump on it to
reach the pipe. Inside you will see that the path is covered in sludge. 
Hopefully you have full health and suit armor. You need to sprint as fast as 
you can and at some point turn into a path on the left (either use the light
after running for a while, or just spot it with your eyes). Run inside and to
the Vortigaunt camp. It's just one lonely guy here surviving off very little.
Restock your supplies here and talk with him if you like (the Vort at the gun
station says/said the same stuff). When ready, simply repeat the same tactic
to get back. The only reason to do this is to say you did and to get the 
achievement on the Orange Box.*

Go to the ramp near the gate and go up. Drive toward the building and spray
down the two guards that come out. Get out of the ride and go inside for two
more bad guys. Lots of ammo and items, so stock up and get full health from
the stations on the wall. Come back out and go around the right. Zoom across
the wooden bridge and you should see the dude on the corner of the walkway. 

Hop down and cross the bridge to get over there, no one home. Climb down the 
ladder that is already down (no point to the other one that drops by the lever
pull). Follow the path to a computer. One switch is broken so flip the one on
the right. Now make your way back to your boat and go back through the gate.
Now go toward the dam and on your approach you should see a ramp-like 
structure sticking out of the water that points toward the open hole on the
left. Go full speed and hit this ramp right up the middle and you should go
through and land with no problems. Load screen.


==========
Chapter 5: Black Mesa East
==========

The Halftime Show
-----

Go to the docks and stop as soon as you reach them. Get out and find the ladder
in the water to climb up. Go around the right side and to the back to find the
decontamination room. The rest is one big scene. Just follow her. After a 
while you end up in Eli's lab and it's just work as usual, that's Half-Life
for you. Then follow Alyx outside for some fun, but not that.

You finally get the Gravity Gun. Use it to pick up three crates and position
them next to the wooden shed to get to the next area of the scrapyard. Also,
when you get on top of the shed. Turn around to find a crate in the corner by
a door. You can pull that crate to you. Then jump into the next area.

*NOTE: Orange Box users only. Before you leave the first area, right next to
that crate near the door will be a yellow piece of metal. Pull that to you to
get an achievement.*

Go meet Dog in the next area. Dog will play catch with you using crates at 
first, so catch a few. Then he gets a ball. Use this time to toss the ball into
a basket on the wall on the right. Then just toss the ball back and forth with
Dog until he goes for the dumpster. That's when reality sets in and it's time
to retreat.

*NOTE: The basket is an achievement, but only worth two points.*

Run back to the base and follow Alyx, that is until you two get separated. Then
follow Dog down to the dark tunnel. Say goodbye to him too and carry onward.
Use the GG to move the debris along the way to an elevator shaft. Bust a lock
on the ladder and get up. Follow the dark path to a load screen. Welcome to 
Ravenholm.


==========
Chapter 6: "We Don't Go To Ravenholm..."
==========

*NOTE: The Orange Box states that a 25G achievement is earned by playing 
through this chapter with only the Gravity Gun. That seems mighty steep, but
you should save now and try to get this one later if you don't think you're 
up to the task. Early on this one will be easy, but when the more difficult
zombie types show up, specifically toward the end, I don't see how a normal
player would earn this. So new players ignore, but save in case you think you
will be up for it later. And I won't address this achievement during this 
guide, but I'm pretty sure you will have to carry a sawblade with you the 
whole way. Both episodes also have a similar achievement, so this would be 
good practice if you want those as well.*


Zombie Town
-----

Be sure to use your flashlight whenever it is dark, duh. Move forward and 
pick up a red barrel by the fence with your GG. Turn on the flashlight and 
look left for a zombie by a porch, and toss the barrel at him from a safe 
distance. Go into the grim looking shed thing that has tons of sawblades and
explodable containers. You can use those containers to help clear out the next
room, but no reason. Just grab a blade and jump on or over the table in the 
doorway. You can toss this thing at the zombies lying still, but watch the 
hallway for some more to come out. And remember, after every "kill" of an 
undead, you need to be sure a headcrab didn't survive. 

*NOTE: I may say it, or I may not, but I'll let you know now that you should
always keep a sawblade with you at all times, or for as long as you can. It
just makes things easier. And if you need to stash a blade away as you do 
something else, just toss it into a wall or a doorway.*

Go down this hallway with a blade and turn the corner. Either, slice the two
zombies that come around the next corner, or toss a barrel, or shoot them, 
the choice is yours. Then go outside and listen to a strange voice. You'll
see and hear a fanblade spinning at a motor. Just crouch under this until you
see two zombies coming for you, so back up to just under or behind the fan 
and the brainless ones will kill themselves. You could turn off the fan, and
even take the blade with you, but no reason to do either.

Break into the next building to see just one headcrab wandering around. Kill
him and notice all the fanblades and other things in here. Turn on the fan (I
hope you know to crouch) and then move into the upper left corner of this room
to bring out the zombies, and of course you will hide under the fan, or do 
whatever. Break outside and go right to see some enemies coming for you. Drop
your blade and grab a barrel, back up, and toss the barrel into the other two
to cause a big explosion. Pick up the blade to handle any survivors. Go into 
the next building and either slice up the undead in here quickly, or turn on
and hide under the fan in this room. 

Then jump down and go around the corner to see fire, burning zombies, and 
Father Grigori. He will snipe a few of the undead for you, but you will have 
to kill some, and once he goes away maybe more. After the initial attack, go
around the corner and look right and keep looking right for a zombie to burst
from a door. Kill him and go in this room. There is a zombie in a cage among 
other things, and you really don't have to kill the poor thing. However, if
you turn on the gas and then to turn the dial on the cage, you'll burn him to
a crisp. Then go go back out and go left to see a "sleeping" zombie in the 
corner behind a water tank. Kill him before he wakes up and then go to the left
side of the huge fire. Turn off the gas by the dial and the fire will go out.

Go inside with a blade and be ready for some enemies on the upper level. Best
to just toss the red barrel up there, and then go kill a torso zombie that 
is probably still alive. The stairs need to be cleared, but then be ready for 
a headcrab at the top. Go up the stairs and then look for a zombie to wake by a
red barrel, and then even more headcrab vermin will appear; it's pretty tough
to get through all this without guns, but you can do it! One zombie in the dark
hall, then push the dresser out of the way and kill another zombie. Go into
the next room and be ready to quickly smash a poison headcrab. Grab some 
supplies and then touch the switch to turn off the power to the fence down 
below.

Make your way back downstairs, but be ready for three poison crabs along the
way: one in the big room and two as you get near the exit door; so you could 
essentially run past them all if you want. Get past them and get on the 
streets. Go to the fire blocking the way and turn it off. Bring a blade and 
try to slice up the zombies by the fence, or if you really want to overdo it
you could run back to the gas tank down the alley and burn them dead. With the
power off to the fence, climb over and up; and if you want a sawblade to go 
with you, you'll have to stick it into walls as you climb up the ladders. At
the top, jump across a gap and you will again see Grigori through a hole in a 
roof. After he is done, look down to the alley below to see a wooden walkway
and jump down to take it. Move your blade as it's in the GG through the 
window and then jump through.

The next room has you above a pit of crabs and a zombie. There are four gas
tanks up here, so use them to burn the filth below. Jump down, break the planks
and go into the next area. You'll see a lever that is attached to a motor that
is connected to a car. Pull the lever when a zombie is under the car to 
smash him. Keep doing this, but be careful for the one or two that slip 
through, so try to keep that blade close, or just use your guns, no one cares.
Kill all the ones you see and then there are two more protected by the next
car, so pull it up and feel free to drop the hammer again. 

Once this area is clear of undead, it seems like there is nowhere to go. 
That is when you realize that the car traps pull themselves up after you 
activate them. But before you go on, notice the lambda logo on the wooden 
fence. Go to the second car, pull the lever, and hop on. At the top, look 
behind the fence, press sprint, and then run and jump over to a dark little
area. Go to the back for a cache and come back to the fence. Look to the right
to see a beam at an angle and take it to get back across. Go back up the car,
follow the wooden boards through a window, and then go through the door for a
loading.

You'll meet a fast headcrab through the next door, so kill him fastly. In the
next room you meet Grigori again and he will help you a bit. You have two 
options: jump out the window and jump over to the raised area down below, or 
try to take things slow and set stuff up. You certainly need to kill the zombie
in this attic, and then use the two gas tanks to kill the poison crabs on the 
raised area. After that, you can jump out and jump over to that area. If not,
you'll face three zombies up here from the right, and then you got many more 
down below. 

The standard approach is to drop down, start shooting barrels, start killing
all of the enemies, and then go to the ladder down the way to get up top to
a walkway. That's fine, especially if you got the guns, but if you don't want
to use guns or you just want to get out of here ASAP, take your sawblade and
slice through the enemies down the road going right (right from where you 
jumped out of the window). Make sure you either bring the blade up the ladder
or drop it somewhere under the beams above. Go up the ladder and then use the
blade on the torso to the right. If you want a lambda stash, that will be on
the left in a dark attic and there is a fast crab inside. If you lose the 
blade after killing both enemies, that's fine as there are more in the next 
room. Take the door that the torso was protecting to reach the next room.

Some zombies that are actually "dead" on the tables, but you should grab a 
blade and quickly go down the steps to meet a band of undead coming for you. 
If you are fast enough and if you don't lose the blade, you can dice up all 
of them easily. Proceed to another loading. 


Gauntlet of the Undead
-----

The next area will first introduce you to the Fast Headcrab Zombie. Best to
use a sawblade for a quick kill, or use your guns, no one cares. Move on
but don't go straight ahead down to toward the fire, just go left and into
a building, and watch out for the many headcrabs. Up the stairs is a zombie,
headcrabs in the empty room on the left, two zombies in the room on the right,
health and other things in the room on the right, and then two more crabs in
the top room before you reach the roof.

Another meeting with Grigori and this will most likely be the time anyone
trying to go full GG will end that streak. He will toss you a shotgun and
you need to pick it up. You could stay and fight if you want, or just run
and jump into the water tank over the side; don't sprint though as that
will overshoot you. Climb up and quickly go through the door and be sure to
close it. Go around the corner and press the button to call the lift, but it
will take a while to reach you. There are just two gas tanks in here and
one crate. The closed door only buys you a few extra seconds as the fast
zombies will enter from the skylight. Shoot the tanks when there are too
many zombies, and the rest is just pure evasive maneuvers. When the lift gets
up, take it.

*NOTE: If you were trying to do the Gravity Gun only thing, I think I have an
idea that will work. When you get to the roof, assuming you have a blade, 
launch it across the gap toward the door, wait for the shotgun, and then jump
across and go through the door, but be sure to bring the blade with you. Press
the lift button ASAP and then the rest will be pure hell. The hardest part will
be trying to recover your blade through all the clutter. But if you make it
through this, good job, and remember to save.*

At the bottom will be a poison zombie, who will toss a bunch of poison headcrab
guys your way, so be ready to blast them out of the air or step out of the way.
Or an even better idea, grab the health packs behind the lift, and then run
up the wooden board in front of the lift to get across the fence. Go around the
next fence and straight into a room with one headcrab and a bunch of other 
goodies. Move along to a loading screen.

The next area is just a load of laughs, and actually not so bad for GG only
players. First, take the barrels that are neaby and gently roll them down the 
road so they get to the bottom. Then, run down the road, turn right when you
hit the center area, go up some stairs to reach a room, and pull the lever
on the walkway. This will move a lift so you can make your escape. Now, while
still up in this room, grab the gas tanks and toss one or two as the poison
zombie, then do what you want with the rest. Also, pull down the red barrels 
on the walkway above. Go back down and before you enter the center area, feel
free to toss both barrels into the middle to get anything lurking around.

When you get to the center, just go right and find the little steps on the 
side and jump up them to get up. Go to the back and then jump across a gap to
reach a ladder. By now a fast zombie is on your tail, so take him out. Follow 
this path that swings around to a the top part of this big, thing, where you
will find some supplies. Grab them and then get back on the walkway to reach
the gap with the lift you moved. Jump across and this will cause a bunch of
fast zombies to swarm around. Blast a red barrel you see atop a little 
ladder, quickly go up this ladder, and then jump to the right; the walkway will
break but you should stay on. If you don't do this fast enough, pull out the 
shotgun and start blasting all the zombies as they swarm you, and Grigori does
help. 

After you jump across, grab a blade and go into the hallway, quickly, and take
out three or so zombies with one hit. Grab another to get the rest. Then move 
into this room, grab a gas tank, and look down the below for more zombies. 
Once they are gone, go down there and notice on the left there is a path that
leads to that little room where you found a headcrab and supplies. Come back
up, or don't go down at all, and go up the ladder for three headcrabs. Kill
them or just run through the door to be back outside. This part sucks as there
are a few fast zombies that will hunt you down. Follow the path along the 
rooftops until you see a poison zombie lurking below. You can stay up here and 
fight, or jump down, to up the stairs, through a door, and close the door 
behind you; if you do stop, you will have to fight, but either way, ignore the
poison guy. 

In this room you don't have to worry about zombies busting in, so you are safe 
for the moment. Grab the items and go up the stairs and up the ladder. Up here
is the hardest part of all of Ravenholm. You only face about four fast zombies,
but unless you are extremely accurate, you may be in for a hard fight. Look to
the right and wait for him to say he's sending the cart. Pull out your magnum
and look down the pipe on the right for a zombie to be climbing up, and one
good headshot will take him down. Use the shotgun on the one that comes up the
left pipe. Then there will be at least two more, but above all else, make sure
they don't attack you from behind or they may send you flying over the side,
which will really suck. Once the lift gets close, just jump over and the 
zombies will bug you no more. Throw the lever and you will finally meet the 
good man who has been helping you, but more importantly you also get more 
supplies.

Stock up and follow him to an ambush in the canyon. As he will say many times,
stay close to him. Don't think this is an escort mission, but do help him out
if he is surrounded. Make your way to the cemetery and use the three sawblades
to help him clear out the first gang of undead. Go around the corner and you
will face a second group that is a bit smaller, and shoot the red barrel too. 
Then you two will post up at a raised area, where if you shoot the red barrels
nearby, a fire will erupt. Watch as some zombies will spawn from where you
came, so be ready. Move on with him and you two will eventually reach the end.
He will open a gate and then you slip under it. Help him out until he says 
his farewells. You can stay and watch him go to his uncertain fate, but nothing
seems to happen. Go through the door and you'll hit another checkpoint.


Searching for Daylight
-----

Oh no, you're not technically out of Ravenholm just yet, although the worst 
part is behind you thankfully. You'll see this hole and think you need to just
drop down, but that is not smart thinking. Look to the sides of this hole and 
you'll see beams along parts of it. Just crouch and gently fall down to the 
beams below, and at parts you'll need to run at an angle to reach others, no
sprinting needed. Tip toe when near the bottom and land on a metal walkway 
with health packs, and if you fall to the floor by accident, consider reloading
a an earlier save because this will be no fun.

Assuming you made it to the walkway, grab the health you don't need and toss
it over toward a fire in the corner by another walkway, just to be overly safe
if you need health later. Then go around this path, jump a gap, and you'll be
in a little room with some crates. One crate should have an SMG grenade, so 
feel free to use one you already have to replace it with this, unless you 
wasted all of them in Ravenholm for no reason. Then start picking off all the 
critters below. Blow up all the red barrels you see, toss a frag or two if you
have five, and then use your pistol on the rest. 

That fire in the corner and the walkway is where you need to go. Either follow 
this walkway to the steps, or jump down to the ground. Sprint over to that 
walkway, up the steps, look right, and jump to the beams over a fence. Quickly
move down these beams as more headcrabs will swarm the room you just left, and
some will come after you if you don't start moving down these beams. While in
this tunnel, a few more crabs below and some barrels to blast, and then hop
down when it's clear. Go around the corner to see a dead guy. Pull the health 
and ammo box near him with your GG. You can then get on the beam on the right,
or just fall into the water below, take your pick. With your AUX power at 
full, dive under water and follow it to a Barnacle tongue and take it up. As
you go up, look to the right for a stash of items you should grab with your
GG, then blast the thing before he takes you in. Jump over the wooden barricade
in the water and swim to dry land.

Look up to see a cart with a fan blade on it. Pull the lever to send it up, and
then quickly move onto the rails, but then crouch and stick to a the sides of
the tunnel. You'll see zombies emerge nearby, but just let the blade slice them
up for you, either going up or coming back. It should also get the other group
down the ways, and once the thing passes you feel free to sprint up a bit and
then run for cover. There will be more toward the top, and even some in the
tunnel with the light, so either kill them yourselves or lure them to the 
tracks. Then, run to the light.


Sunshine
-----

Finally, daylight and fresh air at last, sorta. We'll just say you're out of
Ravenholm. Look right and smash some crates, but watch out for the headcrab
up near the lambda logo. Jump up there for a stash in the tight space. When you
get on the tracks and go right, you run into a fast zombie, so shoot fast. Go 
around the corner to hear gunfire and you'll seem a blue beam killing some 
zombies down the way. Look up to see the sniper's position. A crate nearby has
some frags inside. The idea is to toss one up there to flush him out. Try to
get it up there in one shot. Aim for the top of the window while standing a
bit below it, but not directly below, and it should blast him out. 

The next snipe is about two train cars down the tracks, but this one is looking
at you. You'll need to hug the first car near all the barrels and crates, but 
don't get too close to the barrels for he will target them. Then dash to the 
back of the back of the car with the logs, but he will break the bundle. So 
crouch and hug the left wall to stay safe. Move quickly down to the next car,
stand, and hug the left wall, but be careful when you hit the block as this 
will be where the door on the car is open and he can shoot you. Either jump
over or go into the car. Toss a frag into this sniper's perch and then grab
the extra grenades inside the car. 

Duck under the next car to find some items. Get out your shotgun and go inside
the open car, and you'll see a zombie and three Combine on the other side. 
Blast the one that pops up in the opening, then the one by the fire after he
kills the zombie, and then just blast the guy with the brand new gun. After
you kill the third guy, grab the new Pulse-Rifle and have it in hand. This is
basically like your assault rifle for this game, a step above the SMG. Go 
into the car with the ladder to grab some shield and more ammo, then take the
ladder to get on the other side. 

In the big open area, look to the left to wait for some soldiers to pop up, but
also be looking out for one guy on the tracks. Try to hit some red barrels 
behind the fences to get a chain reaction going, then shoot the guy on the 
tracks. You can use the train as cover and shoot through the openings between
the cars to kill any surviving bad guys. After that, go to the end to the 
tracks, which is not the path you need to go, and it would even seem like a 
dead end. But if you go to the left, crouch, and peek through the sliver of an
opening, you should see the G-Man walking away. Then make your way around and
into the fenced area, but watch the doorway on the left for two more enemies to
pop up. Kill them, collect any ammo around, and go inside for three more 
soldiers. Just blast them through the windows as they fight allies and then
go see your friends. 

*NOTE: For the G-Man sighting, you could have also climbed atop a train car and
zoomed down the tracks to see him, for whatever purpose that serves.*

Follow the leader to the next room where you hear from Alyx. After, grab the 
two stashes of items on the corners and then go through the door for a loading
screen. 


==========
Chapter 7: Highway 17
==========

Highwayman
-----

Outside will be some guys on turrets fighting some Antlions. You can watch
a little, or just jump in the buggy. You'll be dropped onto the beack, like,
they will really drop you, so get out and use the GG to push the car over. Jump
in and just ride to the right. Go up a ramp, ignoring all the bugs, and follow
the dirt road up. Get ready for a jump, so when you see a bridge, just know
that it is broken and hold down the turbo button if you want to make the 
jump. Once across, just go up the slope, onto another road, and stop by the
little shack for some health and an SMG grenade. When ready, jump back in and
go through the tunnel.

*NOTE: While you have the buggy, you basically have unlimited SMG ammo via the
ammo box in the back. It's not too important, but nice to know. And I hope 
you realize this thing has a gun too, which you can use whenever.*

On the flip side of this tunnel, you'll fall off a cliff, but that's what you
are supposed to do. Go toward the water and then swing left to see a thumper.
Go near it if you want protection from the bugs. You'll also see a house 
nearby. If you want to go in, read the following note, otherwise, proceed. The
house just has a few items inside, and a lambda cache, also a poison zombie.

*NOTE: To get in the house, go to the right side of it, but the door is 
locked. But on this side you will see a cellar door with some junk over it.
Use the GG to blast the debris away and then go inside before the Antlions 
catch up to you. Inside will be some poison headcrabs, but they are coming
from a poison zombie, so watch out for any at any time from anywhere. There is
an ammo box in the corner, but don't bust the crates, just move them to the 
side. Now grab a crate and place it on the side of the headcrab capsule that is
opposite the nearby wooden support. You'll jump on this capsule, and somehow
you can jump to the top of it and then get on the wooden beams. A box up here 
for the lambda cache, and then you can decide if you want the few items in the
tiny room. You should just toss a frag into this room and then finish him off.
If you want the right way to get out of this house, go toward the front door,
pull off the plank, and go out the door.*

Okay, back on the buggy, blast a hole in the makeshift fence and then take the 
slope down to the beach. Follow it all the way to another thumper by another
house. In the small barn you will find one crate, and in the house will be one
guy on binoculars by a window. The smart thing to do would be to toss a frag
into the doorway on the left corner, and then go blast the guy by the 
window. This is because after you kill the one guy, another soldier will come
out of that doorway with a shotgun, and a third enemy comes from around the 
side of the house. Kill all three, collect the items and then go use the 
binoculars. Just watch as it scans over a village of allies, but pay attention
to a chat going on up on a building to see the G-Man talking with someone you
will soon meet. After that, a hole in the floor leadds to a path under the
house where you may find an item or two, then get back on the buggy and ride.

Proceed down the beach until you hit another thumper by a dock, and you can
either run the Combine over or blast them. Kill all three and then decide 
whether or not you want the items in the dock. There is a crate on the boat, 
and once the boat drops you'll see another crate, but then you'll need to 
sprint back to the buggy. Continue and follow the beach all the way to the 
end where you will see a thumper and then grassland. Go up and to the village.
Park the car by the gates or wherever and then get out to meet the dude that 
is calling your name. Lots of items all around, but no need to grab them at 
the moment, unless you are like really close to death for no reason at all.

Go down to the cellar and meet with Colonel Odessa Cubbage. Listen to what 
he says; basically, these are laser guided missiles. After he hands you the 
missile launcher, the gunship will arrive. Either go to the roof of this 
building using the stairs, or go out to the open ground. What you want to do 
is launch a missile away from the front of the gunship, just enough so that 
it won't have a clear shot at the missile. Then you let it fly to the gunship's
side and once the missile is past the line of sight of gunfire, that is when
you focus the laser on the gunship. It may take a few tries and some getting 
used to the concept, but you better learn fast. It takes about four shots to
bring down the ship, and you'll find more rockets in every building of this
outpost once you run out. Remember, the rockets you shoot go wherever you 
point the laser.

After it crashes, go talk with Cubbage to hear his goodbyes and for him to 
open the gate. Also, keeping asking the Vort near him and the alien will juice
up your suit. Collect any more rockets and health and then set off down the 
road again.


On the Road Again
-----

You'll cross under a bridge and soon see some Combine fighting Antlions. Crush,
shoot, or ignore the soldiers and park near the thumper. Turn it on and then 
take out any soldiers up to the right. Get out your shotgun and get up to that 
wooden dock. Be ready for two more soldiers when you get near the two crates of
supplies. Blast them and then two more on the higher walkway. Climb up the 
ladder and then use your Pulse-Rifle to shoot the operator of the crane, who
is way up there. 

Next comes the crane machine portion of the game. Take the ladder under the
crane to get up there and in the driver's seat. First, get the feel for the 
controls and figure out how to move the arm up and down. Next, move the magnet
over the buggy, line up the shadow, and drop the magnet, moving the arm to 
line it up as it descends. Once you have the buggy, swing it all the way around
and either gently drop it or fling it onto the dock across a gap; and by fling
I don't mean throw it as hard as you can, just dropping it from a high distance
and while maybe swinging, but the buggy will survive. At some point, the door
to the building will open and some soldiers will come out. You can get out of
the crane and shoot them, yes. But an idea 100 times better is to pick up a 
container with the crane and smash them to pieces. After that, push the bridge
over with the magnet. Again, make sure your buggy is across this bridge already
with crane, as driving over this bridge in the buggy can be hard.

Get out and cross this bridge and either get in the buggy to shoot, or just
starting blasting the guys inside, and there are lots of red barrels inside
too. Kill them, take the buggy inside, get out to collect items in the control
room, and then pull the lever to open the door. Get on the buggy to go through
and kill the enemies in your way. Then you'll ramp over a ramp through a window
in the next building. Some supplies you should get for ramping over, or get
out and grab them yourself. 

Go up the road and at the top you will see another gunship, and as you near the
next broken bridge, turn on the turbo to get across. On the other side, go down
the road a bit unti you hit some broken cars. Get out and pull out your 
rocket launcher. Use the cars as cover and start blasting the gunship, and you
should be able to get some good shots at the ship's underside. Once you use
up your ammo, go find the van with a rocket crate inside to keep firing and
keep going to it for more. 

After you clear the skies, get out your GG and start blasting the cars off 
the road; completely blasting them over the side and into the ocean is 
optional. Go through a short ways to another van with the lambda logo and 
break the crates. Keep going you'll hit another loading tunnel.

On the other side, go past the first car you see and then get out of the buggy.
Look down the road and the roller mine will either be coming after you or it is
still in the ground. Either way, grab it with the GG and throw it into the
ocean. Around the bend will be two more as well as two cars you need to scoot
into the water. Continue down the path and when in range of a house, there will
be three more mines to toss in the water. When near the house, an explosion 
will bring down some rocks, then Combine will appear.

Best to get out and start blasting with your guns. One crate in the little shed
and when you get near the house there will be three more soldiers. They will
come out to get you, or you can rush them inside, your choice. There are quite
a few health items in here and some crates up in the attic. If you go into the 
attic, and it's highly optional, you'll see that three more soldiers will 
appear on the road and come after you. Don't sit around and wait for them, just
run outside and greet them. After all that, get in your buggy and proceed.

When you hit some cars up the road, blast at the mound in the road to cause
some explosions, and use the buggy turret to kill any remaining soldiers. Get
out and clear away the two cars with the GG and then across the mound will be
two crates. Back in the buggy and keep going. Next you hit a bunch of clutter
in the road. Get out and go to the right and atop this tiny hill will be a 
Crossbow and some bolts. You can zoom in with this by pressing the alternate
fire button. There will be one guy to the right, one on the bridge, and then 
one dude you and pin to the billboard up top. Then clear the road of the junk,
just enough to make a path, and then make your way to the force field.

Get out and go around to the right, with the GG in hand to dispose of the mines
in the grass. Then use the red barrels and toss them toward the house, not 
really aiming at anyone just hoping for a lucky hit. Then pull out a shotgun or
SMG and start working on the six or so enemies in or around these houses. Watch
out for the shotgun dudes that will try to rush you. There are two crates in 
the open garage and that's about it. As far as opening the field, go around 
behind the house to find an APC with a wire that is powering the field. Use the
GG to blast it into the ocean. Go back to the buggy and go onward.

*NOTE: Before you leave this area there is a lambda cache behind the fence at
the back. It's a bit out of the way, so only those looking for these need to
take the time. Go to the blue barn and grab the two big tires and launch them
toward the fence. You can even bring a smaller tire, but that's optional. 
Stack the two big tires by the bended fence and use them to hop over. Go 
collect the two boxes from the recently-killed ally, and then hop back over.
To hop back over, you kinda need a running start, but it's tricky either way.
Just know that you aren't stuck behind this fence, so keep trying to jump and
you will get over.*


Trolling Under the Bridge
-----

Up the road and down the curving loading tunnel. You'll see a dropship fly 
away on the other side, and then a lone enemy in the road by an empty house, so
no reason to get out. Keep going to hit the little estate the dropship came 
from and be ready for an ambush you can't avoid. Get out of your buggy and go
to the center of this area to lure out all the bad guys. Use all your rockets 
since there is a crate full of them here, feel free to use the gas cans that
are all over, and then just shoot whoever is left. 

After the fight, go left first to the white house and look down the hole in the
floor. You should see and/or hear a poison zombie. It would be wise to try and
burn him with a gas can, or just toss some frags down there, but don't drop
down there if you don't want to. The tan house has some things in it. The two-
story house is completely optional, and almost wise to avoid, but if you want
to, go in. Not much on the ground floor. Use the little coffee table or 
whatever and set it by the half-stairs so you can get up there. Have your 
best gun ready for a poison zombie that is either already up here, or appears
after you get up here. Kill him and his friends, grab the items, and then fall
down the chimney because it's pretty cool. 

Back outside, go around this house and you'll find the path to the cliffside.
Follow it, killing anything in your way, and go through the door. Grab the
items on the table and then keep going to hit a loading. Keep going and then 
take the stairs all the way up. Step onto the walkway and look right to see a 
broken bridge. Look over the edge of this to see a walkway down below. You will
stand back, sprint, and jump over to land on the catwalk below. Follow it up
and you may notice a rumbling, that is just a train. There is a headcrab in the
shack; you'll notice all the rockets set up along this path, which should be
a clue for what is to come. 

The next walkway will also be broken, so crouch and follow the beam that goes
left. You should see another walkway around the support beam, so tip toe 
around it and get on the walkway. You'll come to a ladder that leads to 
another shack that will lead to a platform below, but only health down there.
You should start fighting with more soldiers at the next shack so get up to the
rocket box and start blasting them and the Barnacle up above. Restock and then
back up the ladder. 

The walkway soon ends, so get to the end and look right. Crouch and again do
the tight-rope act across the beams to reach the next piece of walkway. Two
headcrabs in the shack. Take the walkway connected to this shack, jump over the
gap, and you're finally to the other side. Stock up, go down to reach the path
onward, and move on; don't go all the way down, especially down the ladder to
the nowhere platform. 

Enemies will greet on you the right, so blast them. When you enter the next 
room, be ready to shoot a barrel up to the left to drops some beams on the
enemies, but don't shoot it too early. Keep looking up to the right for any
more enemies and then smash the crates. Move on to the walkway and when going
up the ladder, be ready for a soldier way up and behind you to start shooting,
so go up the ladder and shoot back. In the next room will be more bad guys, and
then in the field room will be two guys you need to shoot. Once they are dead,
use the GG to pull the power from the left. Collect the items and the go
around to the right corner and push da button.

Now it's time to make your escape. Just do down one level and then to right and
jump over the rail to cut out a lot of useless running. Kill two enemies down 
the way and then go up the stairs. At the top, take the walkway on the left
and be sure to jump over the gap. From this shack, you can try to hop your way
down to the lower platform and then climb up the ladders to the rocket box, or
just go across the beam to go to the walkway on the right, crouch and get on 
this piece of walkway by the very tip of it (hard to explain, but it's 
possible). From the rocket box, just maneuver your rockets around the many
beams and try to get the gunship while it is either going under the bridge, or 
on either side of the bridge. After if falls, follow the same path back to the 
walkway you first jumped to. You'll notice at the end of it there is yet one
more piece of walkway down below, a tiny piece that is at an angle bent 
downward. You'll jump, or hop down there and you should slide right to the foot
of a ladder; save before you jump anyway just to be safe. Climb up the ladder,
recover health at the table, and you'll hit a load screen.

Open the door to the cliff to see a zombie fighting some Antlions. Just drop
to the lower path and sprint up and around them to reach the estate. Use the 
rocket launcher to kill a new ambush up here, restock, and then get back in 
the buggy; grab SMG ammo from the back if you used any. Back up and then 
go into the left corner of the rockwall to find a lambda cache in the ruined
fence, also two headcrabs. Get back in the buggy and go up onto the tracks. 
Start heading down the tracks going at full speed. Toward the end you will hear
a train coming, and that is your cue to turn on the turbo. Beat the train to 
the opening, don't go to sharply left or you'll tumble over the cliff, and
you'll be safe. Go up the ramp and into the tunnel to end this chapter.



==========
Chapter 8: Sandtraps
==========

Down the Road for One Last Ride
-----

This is not the same loading tunnel as the rest, this one is full of zombies.
Just one when you go around a truck, and then you'll notice the road is blocked
with junk. On the right is a room with crabs and items, but it's optional. You
crawl in through a vent on the right, and feel free to toss in a frag or two
to clear it out. Inside you will see a zombie banging on the window. Collect
the stuff and then move the debris from behind the door to get out. Blast 
the zombie waiting for you, and then go around the corner to see more among 
the cars. Toss a few frags around to maybe get a few, and then blast whatever
else gets too close, including at least three fast zombies. When all seems
clear, use the GG to make a path on the left, just enough for the buggy to 
get through, and then cruise on out of here. 

Outside again, you'll hit what appears to be a three pronged-fork in the 
road. You can take the road, the grass to a house, or go right for the beach;
though, not sure why you would want to take the beach. Anyway, just go to the
house and blast the two guys outside with your turret. One box by their APC
and feel free to go in or avoid this house. Nothing on the first two levels,
and then some items at the top. It's when you reach those items that things 
to cooky. Two roller mines drop, so you'll have to quickly throw them out
the window and toward the ocean. Then another, another, and one more before you
get back out.

Continue onward taking the road. You'll hit a roadblock where there is a guard
shooting at you and two roller mines incoming. I suppose you could just run 
right through this place and ramp over the gate if you want, as that is what
you do when you clear it out anyway, but that's no fun. Kill the four guards
that will attack you when you break the perimeter, and then watch out for the
two more hiding in the house on the left. Grab the items around and then back
in the buggy to ramp over the gate via the popping up ramp thingies. 

Down the road you will notice a lot of flat land on the left, and eventually
there will be a hole in the road, so just stay on the grass to be safe. Then
you will hit a truck turned over and in your way. Get out and get ready for 
some fightin'. Make your way to the gate, and then you'll hear and then see
two dropships appear. One will drop soldiers off behind the gate, and the 
other drops roller mines on the road. Use the GG to grab and toss the mines 
into the ocean, then get out your magnum or any other big gun to dispatch
with the five or so Combine that appear. You can toss frags to the left and
right of the gate to test your luck, then get ready for them to rush toward
your position. You can just stay in the road and blast them with the revolver,
or take cover if you really want to. Shouldn't be hard at all.

After that, you'll find suit batteries on both sides of the building, and more
inside. There is a lambda cache above the bathroom in this building, and if 
you want to pull down all the items, go to the wall on the right, stand on the 
green box on the table, and pull down the four items. Next comes finding the 
two batteries for the power line on the left. You'll see two red lights on the
table by the bathroom, and only the slot with a battery has a green light. One
battery is in this room on the bed, so grab it and place it in one of the 
blank slots. Now go outside, to the right, and find a bathtub that is turned
over. Use the GG to blast it away and you'll have the second battery. Place it
in the slot and the gate will open. Now go get in the buggy, drive over the
mound on the right of the tanker, and head into the tunnel. 

On the other side will be a short little drive to a small village where you
meet some friends. Drive into the garage on the left and then go talk with the 
guy. Next will be a series of dropship droppings near the village that leave
about five Combine apiece. Before that though, you can quickly visit all the 
buildings and try to grab all the items. The big building has many rooms, a
frag box in a closet, and an ammo box on the outside. 

There will be four dropships worth of soldiers to drop in, all from different
spots. The first three are basically the same routine, and as the dropships are
landing, it's best for you to either find some items in a building or just
stay out of sight because the ships have turrets that will tear you apart. 
Once you see the ships go away, that is your time to pop out and start shooting
whoever is in sight; feel free to toss a frag at the dropship as it opens its
doors to let the guys out. After the first three, then go into the big building
and use the ladder on the wall to get into the upper loft (ha, loft, I don't 
say that enough). Use this window to shoot or snipe all the guys coming from
the lighthouse. FYI, for all of this, go magnum, crossbow, Pulse-Rifle, and
then SMG, with anything else if you run out of ammo for all of these; and
feel free to use your rockets as you'll get more soon.

After you kill the last group of guys, make your way for the lighthouse with
your rocket launcher in hand. Go to the right to find the door and start 
climbing the tall stairs, with some items along the way. Before you get to the
very top of the tower, there will be a rocket box, so stock up and then face
your enemy at the top. The gunship goes in one direction around the tower, so
when you shoot your missiles, shoot them in the direction the ship is going;
if you shoot them away, the ship may outfly the missile and shoot it down. Just
pop up, shoot, guide, hit, and when out of ammo, go down to get more. Should
be very easy.

After the game saves, a guy will come up to tell you the next more. Grab ammo 
and supplies, health kits along the way, and go down to the bottom. A few 
crates when you two stop and then wait for the door to open. Go outside, 
carefully look over the edge, and drop down; take it easy for this whole cliff-
side. Smash a crate and have a gun ready to shoot one bad guy on the ledge 
above; also keep an eye out for the dropship that flies by with your old dune
buggy. Then you have a long jump, which you need to get a sprinting start to 
make; you could fall to a lower ledge if you don't make it to the top one, so
not too bad if you miss. Then a small jump and more small jumps that should
be no problem. Get across and go through the dark tunnel for a loading.


The Sand Between Your Toes... Stings!
-----

*NOTE: 360 owners should know there is an achievement worth 20g if you manage
to get through the beaches without touching the sand. So pretty much, you'll
have to make sure your steps are on something solid, and you false step will
mess you up. So save now and revisit this save later if you really need the
achievement. Keep saving as you go on if you want to get it in one try, but 
if you just want to play the game, save now and leave the file alone.*

Follow the cliffside to a patch of sand and two allies, but don't you dare 
step on the sand. Watch the guys and soon some bugs come up, and you can try
to save the guy on the rocks, but you don't have to; you DO have to kill the 
bugs though. Again, don't step on the sand. If you do, it's not my fault and
you will have to save yourself.

The first thing you want to do is get out your GG and grab the items on a 
little rock island in the sand. Whatever you do, don't break the wooden pallet.
You want to jump your way to along the rock wall, staying off the sand, and 
if you want to you can bring that pallet with you; it's not needed but it 
makes the next area much easier. 

In the next area you have two, what we will call tiles, in the pallet and the
metal sheet. If you brought the other pallet with you, makes things a heck of
a lot easier. First, move a tile a little to the left so you can use the GG
to grab the suit battery, crate, and ammo way over in a crevice, though, you
probably only need the battery. After that, use the tiles to make a bridge as
far as you can to the light-colored rock. And just keep moving the tiles as you
go, pulling the one from the back to the front, until you are over. Once to 
the rock, you can keep making the bridge, all the way over to the next light-
colored rock. Or, jump up to the two higher rocks nearby, and when at the top
of the one, set the tiles below you and then jump down to cut some time off
the journey. You will probably still need to keep making a bridge the rest of
the way, however. 

When on the smooth rock at the top of this slope, make a short bridge over to
the next rock and then you can pretty much abandon the tiles you used. You can
bring one with you if you like, but you don't have to. Jump your way down to
the bottom of the slope to be in the next portion of the sand. If you look, you
can go either left or right. I'll tell you right now, unless you really need to
see every inch of this game, you don't need to go left. If you do go through 
the trouble of going left, there will be a lot of bridge building for just 
one suit battery, some ammo, and an Antlion eating some dead guys. If you 
really want to go over there, start making your bridge, and then make it all 
the way back. And no, it is not a lambda cache to the left.

So, still at the bottom, go right along the ledges on the rock wall. When you
get to the end, you can jump over the gap to a rock in the sand. Jump to the 
left to be at the foot of two boards slanted upward. Go up one board, and yes,
the boards can be moved, but don't move them. At the top, you'll see another
see-saw puzzle. Use the GG to pull the junk from the opposite side of it and 
place them on the side near you. Also jump down to the saw and look right on
the sand for bricks. Put as much junk as you can to weigh down this side, and 
then sprint up the saw and jump to the rock above.

*NOTE: You could have also used one of those movable, big boards, to make a 
direct bridge up there, but that would be tricky. And while extremely time-
consuming, you could have just made a sand bridge all the way to the end of 
this beach, but that's no fun.*

While atop this big rock, you will notice you can go left or right. Going right
takes you to a little shack by a dock. The shack has some items in it, there is
ammo at the end of the dock, and from there you can pull some items from the 
beach using the GG. You'll then use the door and another "tile" to make a 
bridge that leads to the sloping rock by the ruined, wooden bridge to get 
back to the start. When back, go left this time, and if you look right before
you jump over a gap, you'll see two crates and some health items by a big 
rock on the beach. If you are at or around full health and armor, you just
ignore those items. If you need them, feel free to try and pull them, but you
can't pull them all from way up here. You'll have to drop down to the beach, on
a tile, and then go all the way over to the sloping rock by the ruined bridge,
again. So I would advise skipping altogether.

Now, when you jump along to a high rock where there is a tree and a green 
cabinet, move the clutter off a big board and pick it up. The idea here is to
position this board so that you can get over this gap. You can either make an
end-to-end bridge from one side to the other, or just make sure the board
is slanted to the other side and walk up it. BUT don't leave this big board 
there. Pick it up once you get over and take it with you. You'll place it on
a ramp to the right of this shack, and you'll place it on the ramp so that you
have a path to the shack that is sitting above the beach. It's hard to explain,
but when you see a ramp tha leads in to the beach, place the big board on the
ramp so that you have a new ramp up to the little shack. 

But, you're not done with the shack by the rock wall. Go inside for a few items
and then look up to see another, tiny shack up even higher. Seems like it's
not something for you to reach, but you can, but it's hard. You don't have to 
go up there. Remember the ramp we talked about on the right? Go there and then
turn around and look up. Shoot the red barrel and you should blast the two 
crates off the platform; good enough to get the lambda cache. If you don't want
to blast the crates all over the place, just go inside the open shack, look up,
and try to pull down just one crate, and you'll still be good for the cache. 
If you want to do things the hard way, you can get up there yourself. There 
are two ways to get up there, either by stacking everything you can by the 
wall inside the shack so you can reach the roof, or by stacking stuff you can
in the crevice between the rock wall and shack. Bottom line, if you are looking
to get the achievement for all the lambda caches, and don't want to spend a 
ton of time, then just pull down one box and you're good.

Wow, that was pointless. Getting back on track, remember the ramp you made with
the big board? Use it to get up to the next shack. Inside will be a crate with
many suit batteries, and none of which you should need; any spares should be
flung toward the thumper down the ways, just to be really safe. Then if you
look at the ramp from this shack, it is awful close to the rock that has the 
house on it. You can be really smart and go use the big board once again to
make your bridge over.

*NOTE: I can't stress it enough, if you aren't use the big board from the gap,
then you are making things much harder on yourself.*

Once this rock, lots of items in the house, and toss whatever you don't need 
toward the thumper. Then go to the back of the house and press the button on 
the generator to turn the thumper on. Now, you are supposed to think "oh ah,
now I have the thumper going, I can just run over there and be safe." Well,
I'm afraid to say this, but that is sucker talk. Yes, you can run over there,
wake up a whole bunch of bugs, then run for the rocks, and then fight the bugs
off, that is a plan. The slower, safer, wiser plan is to look to the right and 
go toward that big rock. For the last time, use the big board to make your 
bridge and the game should save once you hop up to the rock.

To the right of this rock will be a beached ship with some crates around it, 
but you can ignore them completely. Look in the direction of the thumper and 
look down. You will see flat rock on the sand. Jump down there and now you
have a decision, with the option of running to the thumper and then to the 
big rocks as a constant option. For one, you can start using the two big blue
sheets of metal to go either toward the thumper for all the items around it,
or go to the round rock where you can jump to the rock wall. Either way, just
use the two sheets to make your bridge and you'll move pretty fast. Going to 
the thumper gives you a lot of items, but you probably don't need them; a
better idea would be to throw all the items to the solid ground up high, or 
over it (you'll know why in a bit, it's all about being super, extra safe).

*NOTE: There are also two crates by the towering rock on the beach, near the
ocean, but they just have ammo inside.*

No matter how you do it, get to the solid ground and you'll be done with moving
tiles around. Any items you may have tossed up here with the GG, toss them over
and into the next area. You'll hear a music cue and see all the debris and
stuff on the sands, so you know something big is about to go down. Just save 
and hop down.

No, this isn't a boss fight, as there is no such thing in Half-Life 2. This is
an Antlion Guard, one of the big enemies in this game. There is nothing fancy
you need to do to take it down, just shoot it, a lot. Just run around, avoid
its charge, avoid its close ram attack, and ignore the little guys. Howeva', 
if you have three rockets in the old launcher, using all three when he is 
completely out of the ground also seems to work just fine. If not, don't forget
to use the red barrels, the alternate fire on the Pulse-Rifle if you have an
energy ball, and use the SMG grenades. Oh yeah, and if you run to the other 
side of this "pit" you will have a friendly firing from a turret to help you 
a little. It's not that hard, just stay in motion and you should win no matter
what.

After the fight, collect all the items in the area and then meet up with the 
Vortigaunt who will extract Pheropods from the dead guard. Pick up the little
ball from the ground and then follow the Vort into the den of allies. Items in
many places, and some people to meet along the way to the training grounds. 
Just do what he says and you will realize that the Antlions are now and forever
you BFF's! Just know that the fire button commands them to go/attack where the
bait lands, and the alternate fire calls them back to you. Sweet. Let's do 
this!


The Tides of War
-----

*NOTE: 360 owners should note that a good way to quickly switch to the bug 
bait in the heat of battle is to keep moving, but take your right thumb and 
quickly tap Left on the d-pad three times. It odd, yes, but crucial that you
learn this, and I guarantee you can use this trick in other games.*

Go through the gate when he opens it and you are almost to the prison. Sprint 
to the end of the tunnel and on the outside you'll run into a thumper. Now,
in a crazy twist of fate, the thumpers are now your ENEMY! You must turn them
all off by going up the ladder, pressing the switch, and then jump down. Turn
off this first one, and the next one. Then you need to toss the bug bait over
toward the bunker and your friends should take care of the Combine. Feel free
to pull out the handgun and help, and I say handgun because there is no sense
wasting any other kind of ammo when you have an army of bugs at your side; you
may even get a headshot or two. 

After this, the next thumper will need to be deactivated under fire, so sprint
and turn it off, then send a pod toward the bunker; actually, send the pod 
before you turn off the thumper as your friends seem to get over to the bunker
anyway. Kill any survivors and then go claim the loot up around the bunker,
then be ready for a group of soldiers to attack from the beach. 

Next you will have to make a dash along the beach and avoid getting torn to 
pieces by the turrets. You'll also need to watch out for soldiers that will
be waiting for you. So just toss the bug bait as far as you can and then run
across the open with you SMG or something. Kill all the guys you can as you 
take the first left you see up a slope. Kill the guys and don't forget to call
your friends to help. Go around and up and send the bait into the bunker to
clear it out. Claim the crates inside and make sure you have all four of your
troops following.

Behind this bunker is a doorway into a dark area. Just keep the bait in hand 
and send in your bugs ahead of you. Around the first corner will be man hacks,
so use the GG to help destory them. Then keep using the bait to advance your
team and eventually Combine will toss flares and start attack from the three 
ends of these ruins. Just toss your bait as far down as you can and feel free
to just sit back behind cover and let your guys do their work. If you have to
fight, go ahead, just watch out for all the red barrels lying around. At the
other end, on the left side, there is a small crawlspace with a barrel. Move
the barrel and go inside for ammo. 

Outside you will be near the back of one bunker so send your guys to clear it
out. Then throw a pod in the direction of the other bunker and they will 
eventually clear that one too. Swing around the bunker to get on the other 
side. Toss another bait as far as you can across the open field and then go
with your army to meet the Combine. It seems like the soldiers will keep coming
unless you go toward the dropship. So clear this area out and once the dropship
is away you will have successfully stormed the beaches.

Go to the cliffside and follow the path, jump over a gap, and send a bug bait
near the fire. Let them kill the zombie or do it yourself, but it is funny
to move that board and see the ramp squish all of them. Either way, move the
board to make your ramp and keep along the cliff and around the corner you will
come under fire by guys up high. Just toss a bait up there and your friends 
should handle all the enemies. Climb the ladder, go around, and then jump over
to a ledge with some crates. Follow this path, sprint and jump over the gap, 
and then have the your pheropod in hand as you go up the little steps toward
the pipe, and send in the bait early as a fast zombie of all things in waiting
in the pipe. Then go in for a loading.

This next part will go from pure fun to harsh test in a snap. First, go to 
the end of the pipe and in the water look up and to the left and toss your
bait anywhere. Then swim to the ladder on the right and go up. There are three
towers you need to clear. Start with the one on the right, then the next and 
then the last, and you and can use the bugs to clear them. Some items around
and then toss the bait behind the fences around the corner so the Antlions can
get the jump on the soldiers. Get out your SMG or whatever and help them clear
this area of bad guys. 

You'll notice a red flare went up, which means gunships are incoming. But no 
matter what, you need to clear out the soldiers on the ground. You can send the
bugs way ahead of you, just keep moving and move fast. First there will be two 
guys in a room on the corner, then more guys in a room around the corner, 
then a post up on the left, and then a final station up to the right. You need
to quickly get to the end of this area so you can use the rocket box on the 
gunships. There will be two, so focus on one at a time, hard, I know, but try
to use the smoke coming off a damaged one to know which you need to take down
first. Health is scattered all around, so don't panic, and there is a health
pack in the dumpster by the rocket box. Also, feel free to save the suit armor
station inside the first guarded room on the corner, as you can always find 
health, but you'll probably be out of suit armor after the fight.

*NOTE: I don't recall there being two gunships at the same time on the PC 
version of the game, but it has been a while so I don't know. I'm pretty sure
the two gunships at the same time is a little tweak made The Orange Box, 
because I was surprised by it, and it was tough.*

After the fight, gather the items all over this area, the stations inside
the first room, and then go through the burning hole in the wall. Turn the 
valve by the fire and then another around the corner that is up above you. 
Go through the doors to a loading screen to end this chapter at long last.


==========
Chapter 9: Nova Prospekt
==========

Breaking Into Prison
-----

Break some crates and open the door. You will for a while by without your 
friends, but no worries. Go down the steps, look left, and crawl through the 
hole in the wall; after the headcrab scares you, kill it. On the other side,
get out your GG and use it to tip over the turret on the other side of the 
gate. Go up the stairs and crawl through the crack in the fence. Push over the
two turrets behind the bars and then go around the corner. Two stations to fill
up your health and armor, and then turn the video screens to see various
places in the prison; also, a G-Man sighting if you wait on the one that looks
at a door.

Around the corner and up the stairs will be a room with a door that you can
push out of the way with the GG for one crate inside. Then go topple the 
turrets. In the next room will be some water, and watch out for the 
Barnacles in your way, give them junk and walk under. In the hallway, when you
go to the double doors, four fast headcrabs fall from the skylight, so blast
them quickly.

Go through the doors and you'll be in the cell block with all the turrets you
knocked over. Drop down and then go through the opening into the next area
where there will be two turrets up high. Get below them, pick up barrels and
whatever, and try to knock them down with the GG while they can't fire at 
you. Then go up the steps to see a lambda sign on the doors. Just knock off 
the boards on the left and hop through for some supplies. Hop back through 
and follow the path to a load screen.

A headcrab in the next room and a crate. Bust all the boxes out of your way
and go down the long stretch of path, noticing the big open shower area on the
right - the same one you saw on a video screen earlier. When you get to the 
end, get out your rocket launcher, hopefully with three rockets, and hop 
down. Look right for the Antlion Guard to crash through, and just lay all three
rockets into him. And if that isn't enough, just run around, use grenades, 
shotgun shells, barrels, and whatever to take him down.


Assault
-----

After you slay the beast, go into the other half of the showers and start 
moving the junk from the doors. Go through and you will have your friends once
more! Go around the corner and toss a bug bait toward the enemies and let 
them have at it. But you need to go help knock over two turrets. Go for the one
on the left first, and use a barrel to both shield yourself a bit and then toss
it at the turret, then pick up the second turret and toss it at a Combine if 
you can. The bars on the forward gate won't open, so turn around and go to the 
side of this room and wait for the gate to open. Toss in a bug bait and then
assist your army in killing the many soldiers down this cell block. Once the
first group is gone, go to the end, look right and wait for guys to exit from
the force field to shoot them.

Pull the cord from the wall on the left inside the field and you'll get in. 
Go right of the dead Vort and flip a switch on the wall. Move the cabinet from
the door and go through to see the gate you just opened. Go up the stairs and
toss the bug bait toward the control room; yes, the bugs will trip the laser
mine, poor things. Then send them into the room to clear the soldiers. Inside
will be one crate and then a button to open the gate down below. You can then
make a quick escape by taking a door just in the hallway outside the control
room, but be ready for some guards to come up the stairs. Through this door 
will be some crates on this level, and across the gap is a lambda sign by a 
prison door. Use the GG to blast the door open and claim the goods inside.

Back in the first the gate is open, but the turret will be covering it. Send in
your bugs to act as decoys, get out your GG, grab a barrel, and run in with the
barrel as your shield, or just toss it at the turret; either way, knock down 
this turret. Hide behind a column near where the turret was, and look to the 
right wall to see a small vent. Get out your GG and run there and quickly 
knock it out of the way and go through. Crawl to the other side to see a fan
blade spinning. No, you can't run through it, but you can pick up the cement
block and use it to jam the blade until you see a spark that lets you know 
your broke it; careful as you crawl under as to not touch the blade at all.
Crawl through the next vent and you can just toss a frag out the other side,
then jump out and blast the two enemies. Pull the cord out of the wall nearby,
then topple the turrets. Through the bars on the left nearby will be some
enemies, but a second group of bugs should take them out. Proceed to hit a 
load screen.

Up the stairs will be a laser mine, so better them than you. After that is 
taken out, toss a bait as far into the next cell block as you can and then feel
free to hide behind the bullet-proof glass at the top of the stairs. You should
help out, at least killing the guy on the upper level. Then toss your bait to 
the very top behind the turret placement. Then go right to see a red barrel
by an open doorway. Around the corner will be two turrets, and they will tear
you up if you don't have a good plan. You need to either push the red barrel
away from you, when not under fire, or try to toss it toward the turrets. Then
you can run into the room, go right, blast the red barrel toward the turrets,
and then light it, or toss the other barrels over there. But the best plan,
just toss a frag to the turrets from the start, saves a ton of damage and work.

Up the stairs will be a new wave of enemies along the upper levels, and mainly
a gunner at the turret on the other end, so snipe him with the crossbow. Toss
a bait to the stairs behind this turret to flush out two hiding Combine. Go
up to the third level and toss a bait on the bridge nearby to handle the 
guards that appear. Go right for a quick crate, then go left and take out the
laser mine. Toss the bait into the next hall and let your army handle all the
enemies. Get to the end and go back to the upper area of the block, toss a bait
to the other side of the bridge and your team should handle all the guards 
in the control room.

Go in the room for health and armor, and if you really want to overdo things,
toss a bait to get your bugs out of the room, then block the doorway with 
crates, but again, this in not crucial, only if you are really terrible and a 
patsy. Flip the switch on the wall and make sure your bugs are waiting outside
this room so they can take on the many Combine that try to storm you, so just
wait in the room and be ready for anyone to sneak in. Then flip through the 
video monitor, then proceed down the open line of gates to hit a load screen.

Toss a bait around the corner to the left to have your guys take out some 
enemies while you go into the room nearby. Health and a video screen, then
go into the hallway that should be clear. Either use the empty bed frames or
something else to toss at the turrets covering the next hall, and a frag works
too. You could even have taken a series of rooms on the right of the turrets,
just watch out for the one laser mine. Then in the laundry room you need to 
toss a bait as far as you can, then just sit back behind the bullet-proof glass
and watch the bugs go to work. You should eventually make a dash down the left
side of this room and then pop the turret by the stairs, then hide again as 
the bugs clear out the rest. 

Just small rewards and one crate on the ground floor, but if you notice there 
are two little hallways on the right side of this room. If you go in there, 
you meet up with a poison zombie on in the shower, so kill him fast. Then 
you'll find a lambda cache in the closet. Rejoin the team and go up the stairs
to the next area.

Toss in a bait to let your army take care of the soldiers in the area, then 
toss a frag down the dark cell to take out the turrets, or you could ignore
them if you really want to. Some items in the room with shelves, then you run
into turrets in the kitchen. And any bullets in the kitchen cause a fire, so
smoke up and toss frags at each turret to bring them down (though, I could have
sworn there were no turrets in the PC version). Get through the kitchen, watch
out for the laser mine around corner, and then make a dash to the other side
and out of view of the turrets. You bug buddies may take out these turrets, or
use another frag or an object. 

Up the stairs and send in your friends for one last raid of Combine soldiers.
Go up, claim all the loot and use the two stations. This is really a sad 
moment because you will lose friends, and it's really, really sad because 
they are sitting right there, looking at you with their big round... uh, their
big sharp teeth! Save, and then jump through the window alone. Have your best
gun in hand too, which won't be the rocket launcher probably; if you got any
energy balls for the Pulse-Rifle, use those.

You'll see some soldiers backing out of a doorway, but they could care less 
about you, they are a little more worried about the Antlion Guard chasing 
them. While they are fighting, it is probably a wise idea to gather a few red
barrels together in either one spot, or scattered in the open. It is after 
the guard kills all these guys that he will focus on you. Use the red barrels,
SMG grenades, magnum rounds, and whatever else you got. Stagger him three times
and he's dead. It's a tight fit in here, so wait by a wall or pillar, let him
charge toward you, and then sprint to the side to lose him for a second. And
that should do it for ya. Move the junk from the ruined doorway in this room
to crawl through.

Smash some crates and get to a staircase, a ruined one. There is one zombie
at the bottom, for no reason, and then a long stretch down a junky path of
clutter. Go down the way until you see an opening up to the left. Grab a crate
as you hear metal screeching and use a crate to jump in the hole. You have
three crashes of metal along this path and then the one that falls where this 
hole is, so you have plenty of time to get up there before you die. Get in 
might be a headcrab, and then fall off the side for a loading.


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Chapter 9a: Entanglement
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Fearless
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Drop down and follow the path to see a glimpse of Alyx - be sure to thank her
for making you "find another way" out of the base. Drop down under the tracks 
and follow them, and look up when you see a soldier drop to talk with her, or
at least she talks to you. Keep going and wait for her to drop down. Listen
to her and follow to the elevator. At the top, get ready for a fight, and exit
the elevator because a frag will be tossed in. Kill the three or so guys, grab
any ammo, and then into the room on the left.

After the scene, follow Alyx down the hall and be ready for two guys around the
corner. Up the stairs will be a fight, so help her out before she gets torn
up. A crate in the room before the next scene. After that, go through the door
and you'll be alone again, kinda. Get out your shotgun and when you open the 
door on the left be ready for two fast headcrabs. Grab the ammo in here and 
go past the clutter to reach another door.

Look in the upper corner to see a video screen where Alyx will talk to you. 
Move toward the gate and she will open it for you. Go down this hallway to the
next gate where she will try to open it, but it won't work. Come back and look
above the vending machine to see a lambda sign on the ceiling. Just stand by 
the glass and pull down the items. Go in the office, push the shelves out of
the way, and go through the vent. 

There are three crabs in the vent, so be ready. At the end, you can peep 
through the vent cover to see a bunch of crabs on the floor. Stand back as far
as you can in the vent with the GG in hand and blast the cover off to blow up
the laser mine. Then look out the opening and pop the crabs left with your 
handgun. Jump down and look to the right. You will see two turrets behind 
bulletproof glass. You should also notice an opening in the glass on the right.
Get out a frag, toss it upward through the opening, and you should knock over 
both guns. A single crate behind the fence and Alyx will open the next gate.

Go into the office, grab the grenades from the box, and look up to the monitor
to see you have tangos incoming. Toss a frag through the glass, careful not
keep it in the room, toward the gate to get the guys as they come through. Kill
the four or so guys, then toss a frag down the next hallway to disable two gun
turrets. Stock up on frags and move on with the shotgun in hand. Two guys 
around a corner, waiting behind a guard field, then more guys in the next room
hiding behind a force field. After they are dead, toss a frag into the 
little room with the plug to blast off the wire that powers the field. If you 
somehow manage to miss five times, go all the way back to the box to get more
frags. Collect the ammo and there will be one more turret around the next 
corner, then you hit the hallway with the two turrets you cleared. Go break the
crate by the doors. In the next hall is a loading.

The next area is the first turret stand-off in the game. Kill the two soldiers
already here, then go to the right side of this control room to find a holder
for two turrets. Press the button and pull out both turrets and place them by
both windows up here that cover both the left and right hallways on the ground.
Yes, you could set them up in many places, but anywhere outside this room and
you will find heck trying to stand them back up if they fall. Also, you may 
notice a tall, green cabinet on the left wall in this room. Grab it with the 
GG and try to clog either the left or right staircase with it; just to help
you out. Then you need to go by one window and help on that side for the 
coming waves of enemies, then help on the other and go back and forth. You can
just use your pistol if you want, maybe even some pulse-rifle rounds. Correct
any turrets that tip over, quickly, and be ready to blast anyone that slips 
by the defenses. The last wave is signalled by man hacks, so quickly toss them
into a wall and then fend off the invaders. Don't forget to use the med station
on the wall.

Alyx will drop by and then go into a scene at the computer. Stock up and 
head down the left hallway. Move some clutter from a door and go through for a
long staircase that has no surprises in it. Three headcrabs in the room at the
bottom, and two crates. Go through the door and the next room you hit will be 
a puzzle room. The water is electric, so don't touch. Look left as soon as you
enter and jump over the rail to get on the pipes. Just shoot the Barnacle up
near you and get to the next lower pipe so you can jump over to the solid
ground. There are some blue barrels up here, and then more crap when you take
the steps. You'll need to mainly get 2-3 blue barrels at least, the two crates
from below, and the pallet. Drop all of these down the ladder and then go down
there. Place two or as many barrels as you want in the water leading to a solid
walkway, then put the pallet on them, then place the two crates along the rest
of the distance.