Episode One teaser

By Tom Bramwell Published 1 June, 2006

Dog's back!

With Half-Life 2: Episode One set for release on Steam today at 6pm UK time, Valve's sent out a fourth in its series of teaser trailers, again featuring the lovely Alyx Vance - this time accompanied by her mechanical pal Dog.

Alyx, as you'll know if you've read our review of the game, published this morning, plays a key role in the first episode - and accompanies Gordon Freeman for quite a significant chunk of the game.

Who knows how much Dog's in it though eh? Well, Kristan probably does, but he's asleep or on a plane or something, so we shan't ask him just at the mo'.

Anyway. Half-Life 2: Episode One. 6pm today. You can watch the previous teaser trailers elsewhere on the site.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • AHiFi #1 6 years ago

    Hmm...all this time I thought you went Alyx. Oh well - would have preferred seeing through the eyes of another one of the characters. That's why I liked the original Half-Life series.

  • GregorV #2 6 years ago

    Xiphos, I though hitting her with the crowbar is what should get the message across?

  • sickpuppysoftware #3 6 years ago

    Maybe Gordon's gay? I don't recall a preference ever being made.

  • jack_klugman #4 6 years ago

    What with all the science and ultraviolence the man probably has little time for romancing.

  • dickspanner #5 6 years ago

    thats my excuse

  • Sko #6 6 years ago

    "if you can read it in a book you should be able to play it in a game"

    I always find tension-romances to be laughably weak story-telling whenever they crop up in TV, films and novels. It's become a lazy checkbox to tick whenever you find yourself with a leading lady, a leading man and only 30 minutes to save... the... world!

  • Kami #7 6 years ago

    Yay for Dog, easily my favourite character bar none in HL2.

    Sorry, there's just something so exceptionally appealing and lovable about a huge great powerful robot that is fiercely loyal and obediant... Alyx is fine but Dog was easily the highlight when it came to characters.

    ... almost a sad day when you realise the robots show more personality in a title than the human voice acting... (My opinion though, as good as HL2 was and the ways I could go on about how lovely the game is, the acting did get a little too camp at times.)

  • #8 6 years ago

    if you can read it in a book you should be able to play it in a game

    God that would turn HL2 into some terrible remake of Speed.
    The previous poster was right, tension romances really don't work - I think thay actually say that in speed actually.

    EDIT: Actually.

    Edited by at 01/06/06 @ 17:15