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[IbizaPocholo]

A complete walkthrough of Valve's forgotten text-based adventure game based in the Half-Life 2 universe, Half-Life 2: PHP, easily both the most forgotten and hardest Half-Life game around!

• Half-Life 2: PHP is a forgotten Half-Life game that is text-based and set in the Half-Life 2 universe.
• The game is considered the most forgotten and hardest Half-Life game.
• The game can be played on the web in the browser.
• The video includes AI-generated speech, sound, and music for a full aural experience.
• The game was released along with Half-Life 2 and available at http://web.archive.org/web/20040924091108/http://www.half-life2.com:80/hl2.php.

 

[Kupfer]

Don't miss on Codename: Gordon as well

Codename: Gordon is a flash-animated side-scrolling game developed by Paul Kamma (X-Tender) and Sönke Seidel (Warbeast) of Nuclear Vision. It was offered through Valve's Steam platform. The game was released before the official release of Half-Life 2 as a kind of advertisement and was accessible for free to anyone with a valid Steam account.

Codename: Gordon is an alternative interpretation of the Half-Life 2 storyline, where the player controls Gordon Freeman in and around City 17, fighting so-called Combine units, alien-like headcrabs, and other enemies while meeting allies such as Alyx Vance and Eli Vance. Codename: Gordon differs from the well-known Half-Life 2 because it is only two-dimensional. The player uses the keyboard to move the character left and right and to make it jump. The mouse can be used to aim 270°, but the area directly under the character cannot be targeted.

Unlike the three-dimensional Half-Life, the player is able to communicate with allies. The allies speak in complete sentences (Codename: Gordon has no voice output), Gordon in contrast "answers" by using IM typical emoticons, such as ;-( and ^_^.

The game can still be downloaded for free from Steam, because it belongs to package 0 and thus is automatically owned by every account

steam://install/92

 

[GamesDontSuck]

What is the deal with that php game?

It gave me 3 options and all options it says were wrong :/

 

[Mephisto40]

Just tried the PHP game, it gives you three options, all of them result in death

So it's hard because it's literally impossible to finish?

 

[shaddam]

Don't miss on Codename: Gordon as well

Codename: Gordon is a flash-animated side-scrolling game developed by Paul Kamma (X-Tender) and Sönke Seidel (Warbeast) of Nuclear Vision. It was offered through Valve's Steam platform. The game was released before the official release of Half-Life 2 as a kind of advertisement and was accessible for free to anyone with a valid Steam account.

Codename: Gordon is an alternative interpretation of the Half-Life 2 storyline, where the player controls Gordon Freeman in and around City 17, fighting so-called Combine units, alien-like headcrabs, and other enemies while meeting allies such as Alyx Vance and Eli Vance. Codename: Gordon differs from the well-known Half-Life 2 because it is only two-dimensional. The player uses the keyboard to move the character left and right and to make it jump. The mouse can be used to aim 270°, but the area directly under the character cannot be targeted.

Unlike the three-dimensional Half-Life, the player is able to communicate with allies. The allies speak in complete sentences (Codename: Gordon has no voice output), Gordon in contrast "answers" by using IM typical emoticons, such as ;-( and ^_^.

The game can still be downloaded for free from Steam, because it belongs to package 0 and thus is automatically owned by every account

steam://install/92

I feel like I somehow unlocked a memory

 

[Kuranghi]

I remember Codename Gordon! That was memoryholed until now, Steam was so bizarre at first, just this big empty thing and then HL2 came out and was the biggest thing.

 

[Kupfer]

I know, right?
Back then I didn't have my own internet connection and had to go to a friend's house to create a Steam account and activate HL2. I downloaded everything that was available for the CE of HL2- and Cordename: Gordon, which was free. It's 2004, a free & legal game to download? Nice!
But at some point it just disappeared from my library, as it seems it did for everyone, and it was forgotten about. Only 1 or 2 years ago I remembered this weird 2d flashgame around HL universe and did some research - and felt exactly like you two Kuranghi shaddam