What Happened During Half-Life's 20-Year Gap?

Half Life 1 and Half Life 2 are both games that have alot of story, but something that is less talked about, is the time between games, where the combine took notice of earth and its portal storms, and decided to pay us a visit, taking over earth in a mere 7 hours, then enslaving and exploiting the entirety of earth for 20 years, in this video, i go through all the games, all the outside sources and all the details that people may have missed to create the perfect timeline and explanation of what happened in those fateful 20 years.

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TimeStamps:
00:00 The Beginning (HL1)
04:14 The Portal Storms & Ecological Collapse
07:30 The Seven Hour War & Wallace Breen
13:07 The Combines 20 Year occupation
20:53 Half-Life Cut Content
24:03 Gordon Freemans Return

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Дата на публикация: 16 август, 2026
Категория: Игри
Ключови думи: What gap during Happened Half-Life's 20-Year