In half life 2 the Soviet style buildings were built before the alien invasion and is contradicted by the giant alien tech in the middle, city 17 tells a story of a place where people used to live but got collapsed and destroyed by a foreign invasion and the betrayel of one of their kind, I don’t really think it’s a communism = bad game story but if you have an entire review you can do of the lore do it, from my memory I guess city 17 is eastern bloc countries, combine is the introfuction of capitalism by the west and nato and that one guy in white hair and a green suit is Gorbachev. Idk I’d like to hear someone’s analysis of the game’s lore.
It’s not really an analysis of lore as such, but rather the conscious usage of Eastern European style to create the feeling of “depressing dystopia”. Iirc the lead visual designer was from Croatia and chose it specifically. I think we can guess what kind of “foreign occupation” they’d have in mind.
In half life 2 the Soviet style buildings were built before the alien invasion and is contradicted by the giant alien tech in the middle, city 17 tells a story of a place where people used to live but got collapsed and destroyed by a foreign invasion and the betrayel of one of their kind, I don’t really think it’s a communism = bad game story but if you have an entire review you can do of the lore do it, from my memory I guess city 17 is eastern bloc countries, combine is the introfuction of capitalism by the west and nato and that one guy in white hair and a green suit is Gorbachev. Idk I’d like to hear someone’s analysis of the game’s lore.
It’s not really an analysis of lore as such, but rather the conscious usage of Eastern European style to create the feeling of “depressing dystopia”. Iirc the lead visual designer was from Croatia and chose it specifically. I think we can guess what kind of “foreign occupation” they’d have in mind.