Join your host Garhdo as they play through Half-Life 2 and do a review-in-progress for this game’s 20th Anniversary. Watch as Garhdo struggles with physics puzzles, spends way too much time in a sewer, and misses easy headshots as they step into the HEV suit of Dr Gordon Freeman, an MIT graduate and theoretical physicist who is somehow one of the most proficient video game badasses ever. Get introduced to the dystopic City 17, ruled by the Combine, and meet the cast of colourful characters like grouchy scientist Issac Kleiner, rebel adventurer Alyx Vance, the alien Vortigaunts, and the elusive G-Man. Its the start of an incredible adventure, and combines the first two of Garhdo’s streams.

• 0:00 Half-Life 2
• 1:14 “Rise and Shine, Mr Freeman”
• 2:07 Point Insertion
• 6:58 “about that beer I owed ya.”
• 8:56 “Pick up that can.”
• 16:46 “Miscount Detected”
• 18:45 “Doctor Freeman I presume?”
• 23:30 HEV suit
• 24:54 Teleportation Interference
• 35:30 CP Violation
• 43:36 Underground Railroad
• 50:52 Route Kanal
• 1:04:47 Manhacks
• 1:40:13 Headcrabs
• 1:42:10 Water Hazard
• 2:02:15 Opening the Gate
• 2:23:21 Hunter-Killer
• 2:46:52 “Give ‘em hell, Doc.”
• 2:59:14 Chopper Showdown
• 3:04:15 Opening the Dam
• 3:11:38 Black Mesa East
• 3:19:03 The Gravity Gun
• 3:24:28 Combine Attack
• 3:31:58 Sign-Off

Recorded April 27th and May 12th 2024
Published April 7th 2025

This was my first time going back to Half-Life 2 in a very long time, with it being a game I wanted to discuss anyway due to its cliffhanger ending and its upcoming anniversary, as even from its first playthrough so much of this game just stuck with me, and its clearly very deserving of its masterpiece status. And this was me starting my own playthrough.

As it is while I have uploaded all of the parts of Half-Life 2, there are recordings for both of the Episodes that followed it that I have yet to upload, and I am hoping to get those up as soon as possible.