The G-Man awakens Freeman from stasis and informs him that the world is a very different place now. Half-Life 2 opens approximately ten years after the events of the first game. He placed Freeman in stasis for the time when he would be needed again. At the end of Half-Life Freeman was 'recruited' by the mysterious G-Man, who appeared to be a suit-wearing human with odd diction but was actually a being of tremendous power and unknown origin. Over the course of several days of non-stop combat, Freeman made his way across the Black Mesa installation, reversed the resonance cascade and briefly crossed to Xen to kill the Nihilanth, the alien entity who had noticed the catastrophe and sent its minions through to investigate. Dimensional rifts to another world, Xen, were opened and hostile creatures poured through. In the original Half-Life, junior physicist Gordon Freeman was present when an experiment with teleportation technology at the underground Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico went catastrophically wrong.
Since then, the game has sold more than 8.5 million copies, making it one of the biggest-selling games of recent years. A sequel was inevitable and after a protracted development cycle (including the partial theft of the game's source code) Half-Life 2 appeared to much fanfare in November 2004. Despite this, Half-Life and its expansions ( Opposing Force and Blue Shift) won a substantial number of awards and went on to sell millions of copies.
However, some players found the resulting lack of explanation for the confusing plot to be frustrating.
As well as featuring the best combat of any FPS to date, it hit on the idea of never having the player's character, Gordon Freeman, speak or stopping the action to have an expository cut-scene. The original Half-Life, released back in October 1998, was the title that redefined the first-person shooter genre.
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