Set somewhere in Eastern Europe, the metropolis drew clearly from real post-Soviet spaces. City 17 may have been fictional, but the influences were plain to see. Half-Life 2 didn’t just give us an original setting it introduced many in the West to a whole new style of landscape, geography, and architecture. The setting of Half-Life’s sequel, on the other hand, felt markedly different: colder, darker, and altogether more otherworldly. It wasn’t your prototypical blockbuster locale, but it was still Hollywood-esque, reminiscent of Cold War-era sci-fi films like Them!, where US Army men battled against giant irradiated ants below a blistering American sun.
The underground labs of the original Half-Life were set somewhere among New Mexico’s towering desert canyons.
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