Half-Life 2
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Half-Life 2 is a shooter developed by Valve, released 16 November 2004 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox and Android. This page lists 78 cheat codes for it.
What Half-Life 2 is
Half-Life 2 is a shooter game developed by Valve and released in 2004. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox, Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Source.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gordon Freeman is brought out of stasis by the G-Man, who inserts him into a train arriving at City 17. After arriving at the station and eluding Combine forces, Gordon joins Lambda resistance members including Barney Calhoun, a former Black Mesa security guard now working undercover as a Combine CP officer, and Alyx Vance, the daughter of one of Gordon's former colleagues, Dr. Eli Vance. After a failed attempt to teleport Gordon to Black Mesa East from Dr. Kleiner's makeshift laboratory, Gordon, re-equipped with the HEV suit and a crowbar, is forced to embark on foot through the city's old canal system. After obtaining an airboat, he battles his way to Black Mesa East, several miles from…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 69 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Half-Life series
Half-Life 2 is the 11th of 24 entries we hold in the Half-Life series. The next entry was Half-Life 2: Collector's Edition in 2004. Its critic score of 79 is 2 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Half-Life: Alyx at 93.
How it was received
Half-Life 2 holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 67% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Players rate it 85, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 20.4 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.7 Ghz, 512 MB RAM and DirectX 8.1 level Graphics Card (requires support for SSE). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB.
What it launched against
Half-Life 2 launched on 16 November 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords and World of Warcraft. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 78 cheat entries for Half-Life 2 — 78 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Characters
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Half-Life 2 cheat codes
Enable Cheats
Activates cheat commands for the session.
Enable the developer console (Options → Keyboard → Advanced), press ~, type this first.
Cheats disable Steam achievements while active.
No Clip
Fly through walls and objects.
Open the console (~) and type the command; type again to disable.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first. You can fly outside the map.
Enemies Ignore You
Enemies do not notice or attack you.
Open the console (~) and type the command.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first. May break scripted events.
Never Die
Your health cannot drop below 1.
Open the console (~) and type the command.
Requires sv_cheats 1 first.
Dlc
Quick answers
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