An Easter Egg is a hidden feature or novelty that the programmers have put in their
software. There are lots of hidden tidbits in Half-Life 2 that you may not have
seen.
Hidden Phrases
Listen to the Zombies cries when you set them on fire. It sounds like gibberish, but if you play it back in reverse you can hear them screaming stuff like "God help me".
Black Mesa Nostalgia
The G-Man Sightings
There are 13 known sightings of the G-Man in Half-Life 2.
Point Insertion
Hidden Phrases
Listen to the Zombies cries when you set them on fire. It sounds like gibberish, but if you play it back in reverse you can hear them screaming stuff like "God help me".
Black Mesa Nostalgia
| HEV Charging Unit - In Black Mesa East after Alyx has handed you the Gravity Gun, if you are facing her, look up to your right where there is a raised platform with a few boxes and oil drums. Stack a box or two to get up there, destroy the boxes in the way and you will find there is an old panel from an HEV charging unit used in Black Mesa. |
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| The Black Mesa Team Photo - In Klieners Lab there is a framed photo hanging on the wall of the Black Mesa research team. Included in the photo are Dr Kliener, Gordon Freeman, Dr Eli Vance and we suspect the administrator Dr Breen, who is scribbled out of the photo. |
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The G-Man Sightings
There are 13 known sightings of the G-Man in Half-Life 2.
Point Insertion
- Sighting 1 - (map: d1_trainstation_01) You first see the G-Man in a hallucination on the train introducing you to the game.
- Sighting 2 - (map: d1_trainstation_05): If Gordon flips through the main monitor in Kleiner's Lab a few times, eventually it will come across the G-Man staring at the other side of a fence. G-Man walks away shortly thereafter.
- Sighting 3 - (map: d1_canals_01): In a resistance member's boxcar, a TV temporarily shows the G-Man, with a Vortigaunt watching and supplying television power. The G-Man appears to be in the same "studio" where Dr. Breen delivers his televised messages to City 17, complete with the Combine's logo.
- Sighting 4 - (map: d1_canals_06): He is seen standing on a pier in front of the headcrab infested Station 7. As Gordon approaches, he disappears inside.
- Sighting 5 - (map: d1_canals_06): Vaguely seen in a large rectangular monitor that flickers his image along with other broadcasts.
- Sighting 6 - (map: d1_canals_12): After Gordon spots a Carrier Synth, the G-Man can be seen overlooking a ledge as Gordon's airboat passes under.
- Sighting 7 - (map: d1_canals_13): Before Black Mesa East, the G-Man can be spotted on a concrete ledge near the gate controls. However, once Gordon turns a wheel to raise a gate blocking his progress, the G-Man is no where to be found. Coincendently, there is a sign pointing to where G-Man stood which states "Observation".
- Sighting 8 - (map: d1_town_05): After leaving Ravenholm, he can barely be seen walking off into a tunnel behind a few train cars.
- Sighting 9 - (map: d2_coast_03): Looking through the Combine binoculars at the second house the player comes to on Highway 17, Gordon can spot the G-Man conversing with Colonel Odessa Cubbage at New Little Odessa.
- Sighting 10 - (map: d2_prison_02): Seen peering through a door window while nodding as Gordon flips through the monitors near the beginning of the prison.
- Sighting 11 - (map: d3_c17_02): In a ruined tenement building in City 17, an image of the G-Man standing in a wooden boat with a crow on his shoulder is seen briefly on a television along with some very discordant music. Strangely, the TV is unplugged, and if the player approaches the TV it will explode.
- Sighting 12 - (map: d3_c17_03): Similar to the giant rectangular monitor seen in the canals, the G-Man's image flickers on and off with Doctor Breen's, before the monitor is toppled by resistance members.
- Sighting 13 - (map: d3_citadel_05): After you stop Dr. Breen from going though the portal, the G-Man appears at the very end of the game.
