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#39: Half-Life 2 -- We Don't Go to Ravenholm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz71F34UyIM

Half-life 3 is a wonderful meme, but by reliving this entry, I remembered how much I wish we had it. Ravenholm is another level that is among the greatest in gaming. Maybe that should be a ranking topic...

Anyway, I didn't know I was a fan of horror until Ravenholm. It's still not my favorite genre, but before HL2 I never expected to like it at all. Everything about the place puts me on exhilarating edge; the ambient noise, the music, Grigori's lines, goddamn poison headcrabs... It's very clear, very soon that the resistance really does have a good reason not to go to Ravenholm.

HL2 zombies are much scarier than normal zombies to me because they're still alive, so to speak. Their groans are begs for help against their hijackers. They feel everything I do to them and their hosts, which added yet another layer to my queasiness. I'm no Grigori, that's for sure.

Oh man, Father Grigori. I don't know who at Valve came up with a half-crazy preacher that likes boomsticks and slaughers hordes of zombies but he better have gotten a raise. I legit thought Grigori was going to try to kill me at some point, but the fact that he never delivers the malice I expected just made me more uncomfortable. His last stand is baller as hell, though. If he died, he did so with a smile on his face.

Okay, enough about the fluff. Ravenholm is wonderful mechanically too. This is where you get to take our lord and savior the Gravity Gun for a complete spin. Offense, defense, utility, it does everything I want and more, and you better learn how to use it quickly since Ravenholm zombies will come after you with everything, including tossing stuff at you. Ravenholm shows you that the world is your oyster with the Gravity Gun at your side. Pretty good work for a genre I didn't like.

Also, fuck poison headcrabs.
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