Half-Life 2 - Through the Citadel

[miracleofsound]

Such a masterpiece of interactive art, this level.

[Rattle189]

can anyone tell me what is the sound on 0:00 (not the music, the lift sound thingy... *tong* *tong* *tong*)

[deadfishy666]

This reminds me of black mesa tour. Only without voice.

[MrCcake]

colmbine all over the place >.>

[1SnapCapture]

Throughout the game you always kept seeing the citadel in the distance...this 2:52 ride made you realize what you were truly up against....such an amazing sequence.

[gilgamesh310]

Of all the Citadels in gaming this is by far the best.

[Stolemyusename]

Hum..It looks bigger from inside than outside..

[da9007]

THIS IS 2012!!!

[FrozenSparky]

@da9007 YAY!!! HL in real life :D

[salakast]

if many yall r wonderin, hl2:ep3 is the last installment of hl2, and its supposed to be where they try to destroy ed the borealis

[RobloxSodaTeam]

Is that banging a song?

If so,

Link pl0x?

[davedavedaveannoy1]

I wish the pentagon wasn't really a pentagon, It would be nice if all our countries operations were run out of a Citadel like this one. My gosh, our countries fear factor would go through the roof, extremists would think twice before assaulting our nation.

[Deadonstick]

Ahhh lol, when I played this I thought the constant footsteps were a bug. Either it's a really common bug or just part of the ambient sounds :P

[spartawar117]

It's like Monsters Inc.

[sezani]

i always wondered how such this building can fit so much stuff lol

[14lolful]

@sezani That building there is like higher than the clouds are?

[sezani]

@14lolful yes its large, but its thin, thats why i how can the citadel fit sooo much stuff

[davedavedaveannoy1]

@sezani It appears thing but its width is kilometer, and its length is several kilometers so that give the illusion of its small size, plus there are several kilometers of expansion underground in all directs and possibly 7-10 kilometers in depth, the tower is only the tip of the iceburg.

[GrandHighGamer]

@davedavedaveannoy1 I did a bit of measuring (I've done some mapping for the game so I got the size that way) and its about a mile high and a mile deep. Huge, but less so then it initially appears.

[davedavedaveannoy1]

@GrandHighGamer I guess I misjudged its appearance, I expected the Combine to construct something more impressive but it amazes me none the less. Thanks for responding.

[1poiuztrewq2]

Why don't they construct something cool like the Citadel in Dubai or anywhere else where the cash flows?

[Nezzytheawesome]

If you sped the pod up and added more turns this would make a really cool roller coaster.

[mees462]

The second one is the most awesome, where you go up with like 50 kph.

[DeviantDManes]

I want a Citadel :(

[h0troddude]

LoL i think i was kinda scary hanging from some metal wire in a pod

[stephenharperbest2]

I wonder what happends if Gordon Freeman actually surrenders to Dr.Breen while Gordon Freeman is in the citadel, probably Breen would turn him into a elite combine soldier or something stronger for the combine..

[GrandHighGamer]

@stephenharperbest2 or just kill him

[Tenchcnet]

the trains at 2:23 look just like FEMA death camp trains. hmmm

[galloway6204]

@Tenchcnet Thier called razor trains and they remind me of the deltic disel which is really tall but there are way taller and are by far my favorate train (there is even an addon for them on MS train simulator lol)

[Entersoftinc]

gee. combine must love pod tours! :D

[fjsclan]

witch programm did you use for this video? please tell me.

[imme789]

what are all of those pods for?

what is with all of the wepird brown piped and why are there stalkers evereywhere?

[lane297]

2:02 was wierd

[guysafari]

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[McPfoot]

oh the nostalgia

[LonelyWanderer317]

oh yeah... remember this feeling: WOW o.o

[OMGpigtails]

Home sweet home!

[GodOPoke]

im still stuck on Nova Prospekt lol

[levitan71]

part 1:30 allways gives me chills :)

[gir4evr]

im up to this part right now. i wonder what those things are at :34

[carsandcats34]

stalkers.

[deathbatdaly]

when its foggy in melbourne the eureka tower looks so much like the citidel its creepy

[Mooshique]

OMG. :o

[zenophas]

now let's see you do this part without the pod, oh yeah, and your going to need a supply crate first. i tried doing this entire chapter on foot with a supply crate i got the beginning if this video, but when i got through the white area i was stopped to load the next map and i ended up in a pod. It really made me feel let down.

[Anarchemitis]

The bitter and discordant sounds and looks of the Citadel only make it more meanacing than what your heart will tell you simply glancing at it.

[Lappalingur]

And this shows just a small fraction of the Combine's power and technology. I wonder how the Combine WORLD looks like *shivers*

[NewoldSandwich]

@Lappalingur We'll see in HL3.

[musicmakespeace]

@Lappalingur huh? sorry i think i missed some story behind all this. u mean those combine have their own world? is those combine actually human?

[LappalingurII]

@musicmakespeace They came from another dimension, and their empire spans hundreds of worlds (at least). The soldiers and stalkers you see in games are humans modified by Combine technology, except for the Civil Protection (they're just people who work to get decent food and stuff).

[DarkBabyIon]

@Lappalingur

Aren't the combine from Xen? well play Half-Life if that's the case.

[SPLCHRLCRNG]

@DarkBabyIon Nope. They're from their own home dimension.

[DarkBabyIon]

@SPLCHRLCRNG

That's exactly what I was trying to point out.

[SPLCHRLCRNG]

@DarkBabyIon I know.

[Brock2097]

HOLY SHIT.

Thank you SO much for posting this.

You made my day, much appreciated.

(Music is from HL1, plays during "Resonance Cascade" level.)

[FieryShaverdian]

There was only one thing I could say on this thing, "This ride sucks."

>.>

[kizugrey]

"anticitizen one" and "follow freeman" are the best chapters ever made in a videogame and the part following (this part of the video, inside the Citadel) is the best no gaming part in a videogame... ever.

[Tig3r1]

Man...the only thing I hate about Half Life 2 is that well...when I take the pod and the bright light blinds me (it loads at that part)my computer crashes just when it finishes loading...and i don't wanna watch movie to see the ending(lol makes me wanna go do something stupid to be able to play when i try to see the ending)

[brawlmaster7]

fuckin level is creepy man just listen to that music and the atmosphere...

[szricsi4]

COOL!I hate citadelXD

[anubis0100]

The best game ever, IMO. It was the game that made me buy a Xbox and then a 360. Can't wait to play it again!

[WickedInnocence]

To sound like a broken record, Half Life 2 was the greatest game I've played. the end was so intense, and just look at the environments. This part was one of the coolest of the game

[DisastoR]

this is also my favorite part of hl2 :)

hmm .. hl2 is the best game i've ever played !

[ZeeKat]

Finished the game yesterday. Utterly brilliant game and citadel ride is just jawdropping.

[Rottingham]

I wish my video card was better so I wouldn't freaking freeze everytime I got this far.

[Jordy04]

Yeah, the same happens with me. Freezing every 10 minutes or so. It gets really annoying :(

[AenillCPaj]

That's because your comp sucks balls. Mine used to do this untill I borrowed a stick of ram and installed Vista. Vista gave me onboard another 20 FPS, makes it run much smoother.

[solidnem]

This is just beautiful.

[lefliesoopreem]

yet eerie O.o

[cmdrchris971]

great video, this was my favorite part of half-life 2

[GLaDous]

Ya same here.