Hello and welcome to to the level 2

level 2 game club. This is the third episode of our Half-Life 2 series which

covers all of episode 1 of Half-Life 2. Well half-Life 2 part 3 covering

episode 1 of Half-Life 2. Yeah so you should have played all of episode 1 if you are

following along correctly and if not what the fuck is wrong with you. Oh god so

I'm Anthony Geiger of GameSpot and EatSleepGame.com with me is Arthur Gees and Tyler

Barber also EatSleepGame.com and joining us as always is Matt Schandronay of

Area 5 TV as well as Ryan Adonnell from the same thing. It's a me. Ryan Adonnell.

Our special guest alcohol. We're drinking a little wine. It's a little bit high

quality. More high quality and two-buck check. I wish I was actually feeling the

experience. The parts of this wine that make you feel weird and funny because

right now just tastes good. I'm actually just incoherent because I'm actually

incoherent. That's fair. So this one starts off with I guess it picks up immediately

where the game ends. So Gordon has been taken to the the nowhere zone. I mean the

ending of Half-Life 2 is already really confusing. I mean if you're playing it it

just kind of stops really suddenly and you're like wow I get no closure. And then

the intro is really psychedelic and you know obviously if you've played it

enough. You're seeing a psychedelic because the

vortagons are purple. Well they like kind of they do this thing where they'll

show the vortagons in the alpha space and then in the beta space in

transparency you see like you know whatever the G-man or something like that

I'm getting trapped or or or anyway I love the chanting too. I just think it's

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