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| harlan, those, waker, altar, sacrifice, house, nasty fat girls, carthage, dangerous, family guy no fat chicks hat, captain, tribunal, parody, portal, strategy, appetizers, pop culture, jeanne moreau, chemicus, neverhood, cameraphones, | The Combine Wall is one of the most chilling representations of malevolent automation I've ever seen. It's the sort of thing that KY-fueled dystopian sci-fi nuts dream about: a faceless, inexorable horror that cannot be stopped, cannot be slowed, adventures cannot be reasoned with, and cannot be adventures escaped. But in the game, no one even mentions the Combine Wall. It's just there, slowly squishing the city, and no explanation of what it is or adventures what it means is ever offered. To throw away such a thrummingly powerful image of mechafascist horror is just ... wasteful. Writers dream of coming up with something as menacing as the Combine Wall, and Valve just tossed it aside like a piece of narrative flotsam. |
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| In this game, he's being talked to, and his failure to respond is very jarring. Then there is the issue of the Combine Wall, which for some reason touched a nerve with me. I was first introduced to the Combine Wall at a Half-Life 2 prerelease demonstration last spring, when they went on and on about it, but if I hadn't attended that event I would have had jeanne moreau no idea what jeanne moreau it was or why it was there. Here's the sitch: late in the game, the Combine jeanne moreau apparently decides that Gordon must be eliminated regardless of the cost and unleashes its most devastating weapon—a big metal wall that rings the city. Not very scary. Thing is, though, the wall moves—and it's encroaching, step by step, crushing everything in its path. Allowed to continue unchecked, it would eventually destroy City-17, along with everything and everyone in it. |
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