With its heavy 1984 allusions and authoritarian post-Soviet Eastern European dystopia setting, is Half-Life 2 devious anticommunist propaganda? Discuss
With its heavy 1984 allusions and authoritarian post-Soviet Eastern European dystopia setting, is Half-Life 2 devious anticommunist propaganda? Discuss
Not sure how the plot will develop if Half-Life 3 ever happens, but one of the things I like about the setting is that unlike in most other scifi stories, humanity isn't especially important to the broader universe, or Gordon Freeman some destined Chosen One.
(Compare this to something like Halo, where the Covenant is eradicating humanity specifically because they know that they are the actual true inheritors of the precursor "gods" their entire religion is based on or how the later games retconned Master Chief into just such a destined Chosen One whose coming was encoded into humanity's genes by said precursors)