Gordon FreemanBiographical informationHomeworld, WA, USA,BornFunction(s) / BelongingsRank / Occupation. Level 3 Research Associate Scientist. leaderSponsorClassifiedWeapons. in Half-Life. in Half-Life 2Equipment. Glasses.Vehicles. (cut).
(cut). (cut)Physical descriptionSpeciesHumanGenderMaleHair colorAuburnEye colorGreen (with glasses)Chronological and political informationEra(s).Faction. ( formerly). TheGame informationVoiced byN/AModeled over. (HL2)Designer(s). (HL1 concept art).
(HL2 concept art). (background). (name)Entityplayer. Freeman's letter of acceptance to Black Mesa, written, as it appears in the instruction manual of the PlayStation 2 version of Half-Life.
Early life and MIT A native of, Washington, Freeman showed great interest and aptitude in the areas of quantum physics and relativity at a young age. His earliest heroes were,. At age 6, he even constructed a butane-powered tennis ball cannon.While visiting the in the late 1990s, Freeman observed a series of seminal teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute for Experimental Physics. Practical applications for teleportation became his obsession, and he eventually attended the (MIT), in which became his mentor.
In, he received his doctorate from MIT with a thesis paper entitled Observation of - Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array (essentially about the teleportation of matter through extremely dense elements). Working at Black Mesa Disappointed with the slow pace and poor funding of academic research (and with potential a distant dream), Freeman looked for a job in the private sector. Incidentally, Kleiner had taken charge of a research project being conducted at the, located somewhere in the New Mexico desert. He was looking for a few bright associates, and Gordon was his first choice, although also applied for the position. Considering the source and amount of funds available to the Black Mesa labs, Gordon suspected that he would be involved in some sort of weapons research, but in the hopes that practical civilian applications would arise in areas of quantum computing and astrophysics, he accepted Kleiner's offer.At the start of Half-Life on, the day of the, Gordon Freeman is 27 years old, has no dependents, and has never handled a weapon of any sort. He is working at the Black Mesa facility, where he owns a Level 3 Research Associate position. He is accommodated in the Level 3 Dormitories in the Black Mesa South Wing, alone in room 309.He is assigned to the Anomalous Materials department doing nuclear, subatomic, and quantum research.
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Despite having obtained a Ph.D. From the prestigious MIT, the laboratory work that the player actually does as Freeman (pressing a button and pushing a cart) does not require any intellectual expertise at all. Pokes fun at this in the beginning portion of, when Freeman performs similar 'technical' assistance (pushing a switch and attaching a fallen plug back into a socket). Barney then goes on to joke that Gordon's MIT education 'really pays for itself'.
The baby picture found in the locker.In Half-Life, the picture of a baby with beside an adult hand making a 'thumb's up' can be found in Freeman's locker. Although the baby in the picture is and 's daughter Isabel, and the picture was officially explained as being an Easter egg placed by the level designer, offered the idea that it could be an infant relative of Gordon's, such as a niece.
The locker also contains the books and by Marc Laidlaw, as well as what seems to be Gordon's diploma in a frame, a thermos and a cup, an, two sticky notes, and apparently a blue suit. After the, the thermos fell on the floor and the diploma fell on its face.As told by Alyx in, Freeman and Calhoun would compete with each other to be the first to retrieve Dr. Kleiner's keys whenever he locked them in his office in Black Mesa (apparently a fairly regular occurrence) without resorting to conventional means.
This is reputedly where Freeman learned to make use of ventilation shafts to infiltrate rooms and buildings. Indeed, Gordon and Barney crawled through numerous ventilation shafts in Half-Life and respectively.Appearances. Artwork of Freeman from the original. On at 7:30, Freeman is being instructed by ' counterpart for an HEV Suit Training. This is Half-Life's. At 8:47, he starts his tram ride from Level 3 Dormitories at Black Mesa. He is 30 minutes late.
Around 9:00, Gordon and his team perform an experiment on sample in 's. The experiment goes wrong (possibly intentionally, due to ) and triggers a. As a result, the space-time continuum is ruptured, allowing lifeforms to enter the Black Mesa facility.
They immediately start killing any humans they can find. Freeman finds himself hunted by two groups: the invading aliens and later the, a military cleanup team that has been sent to contain the situation, by silencing aliens and surviving personnel alike. Against all odds, the untrained theoretical physicist manages to survive the chaos (thanks in no small part to the he wears in his duties), impressing the few surviving and with his heroic acts while quickly becoming the HECU's top priority target.
Gordon Freeman leaving for Xen, as seen through the eyes of Adrian Shephard.After numerous challenges, and after eliminating countless aliens and soldiers, Freeman is eventually transported by a few surviving Lambda Team scientists to the alien homeworld of, where he manages to eliminate the alien 'leader', the. Upon recovering from his final encounter, Freeman is finally confronted by the mysterious, who has been observing Freeman from a distance throughout the entire game and perhaps even manipulating his fate. The G-Man shows Freeman several locations throughout Earth and Xen, before finally offering Freeman a choice: either agree to work for him and his mysterious 'employers,' or be left to die on Xen without any weapons and surrounded by hostile lifeforms. Half-Life 2 assumes that Gordon chooses to accept the G-Man's offer of employment.
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In Opposing Force, witnesses Gordon teleporting to Xen in the Lambda Complex, and any attempts to follow him through the same portal will result in a ' which sends Shephard falling through Xen's void and ends the game. An 'Employee of the Month' picture of Gordon can also be seen in an office. Freeman seen carried away by soldiers in Blue Shift.Gordon is seen three times by during the course of Blue Shift. Barney first sees Gordon waiting for the tram on a ledge which Barney passes. A few moments later, Gordon can be seen riding. He is also seen heading towards the HEV storage area through a surveillance camera (he passes by a scientist who greets him, and he obviously does not answer), and lastly being dragged to a trash compactor by a pair of marines, without his glasses. Although he is never actually seen in Decay, Gordon is mentioned several times throughout the course of the game.
First by the first to be met, who says: 'The big guy was pretty excited today when he came in earlier. He was talking about the new guy, Dr. Also mentions 'Dr. Freeman is running late today, again' (Gordon is actually around half an hour late; that also suggests it is not the first time).
He also questions Freeman's skills, stating he does not understand what sees 'in that boy'. Furthermore, Freeman's bedroom in the Area 3 Dormitories can be visited; on his nightstand can be seen a copy of the book 'The Truth About Aliens' (by 'RH', a nod to Gearbox's ), also owned by. Gordon being choked by a in the canals.Half-Life 2 begins with speaking to Gordon, waking him from an apparent altered state he put him in at the end of the last game. Like the ending of the original game, the scene is somewhat inexplicable and psychedelic, with the G-Man's face in extreme close-up fading in and out of visibility over backgrounds representing scenes from the original Half-Life as well as scenes Gordon will visit in the course of Half-Life 2. The G-Man delivers a typically cryptic speech, commenting that 'the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.' And concludes by telling Freeman to 'wake up, and smell the ashes'. According to the story page, the G-Man kept Freeman 'in stasis far from Earth, thought, and time itself' for 'nearly two decades', which sets Half-Life 2 at.
It is also implied by that Freeman did not physically change during his stasis, in the words 'My god man, you haven't changed one iota.' Freeman then wakes up on a train with two being 'relocated' to City 17, and as a Citizen himself (thus also wearing Citizen clothes).
One Citizen remarks that he did not see Freeman get on the train, implying that he was brought (perhaps teleported) onto the train in the middle of its journey. Freeman quickly learns that has been conquered and occupied by the trans-dimensional empire. He soon meets up with and, and eventually joins the against the Combine. Rebels by Freeman's side during the City 17 uprising.During the course of the second game, Freeman battles the forces of the in order to free humanity from its grasp. Already famous for his role in the, Gordon quickly develops a legendary reputation among Earth's surviving human populace, who begin to refer to him by messianic titles such as 'The One Free Man.'
Shortly after his arrival, and having killed a significant number of troops whilst attempting to escape, the Combine designated him, a title that indicates the individual posing the greatest threat to their empire. After slaying scores of Combine soldiers and leading an assault against the Combine stronghold of, Gordon eventually sparks a full-scale rebellion against the Combine domination, in which he becomes a prominent combatant.
Gordon infiltrates one of the Combine's footholds on Earth, the, and destroys its teleport core by detonating the, rendering the Citadel inoperable. Although caught in the reactor's explosion along with Alyx Vance, Gordon is rescued by the G-Man at the last second, who tells Freeman that he is impressed with his work and has 'received several tempting offers for his 'services'.' The G-Man finally informs Freeman that, rather than offering him 'the illusion of free choice', has taken the liberty of choosing for him, and deposits Freeman back in stasis until he is needed once again. Thus, Half-Life 2 'concludes' just as cryptically as its predecessor did, with perhaps even more questions unanswered. Olga monastery's church.In this cut level, Lost Coast, Gordon is lost somewhere from the main coast he was traveling down and is dispatched by an old fisherman to clear out a Combine staging area being used to shell a nearby town,. Gordon starts off the map appearing at a dock and talking to the who explains what is needed of him. Gordon proceeds to fight his way up a mountain path, engaging Combine forces as he goes.
After considerable fighting, Freeman makes it to a former monastery where the artillery platform is located. After destroying the mechanism, he is ambushed by multiple Combine soldiers and a pair of. After clearing the area, he rides an elevator back down to the dock where he started. The old man congratulates him and the mission ends (the old man states that Gordon is turning fuzzy around the edges, just moments before the mission ends). The Citadel Core.Half-Life 2: Episode One rejoins Freeman and as they attempt to escape from City 17, doomed by the destruction of the Citadel's dark fusion reactor at the end of Half-Life 2.
At the beginning of the game, the G-Man appears once more to Gordon, but this time, he is interrupted by the appearance of a group of chanting, purple-glowing, who take Gordon and Alyx away while blocking the G-Man's path. The G-Man appears most displeased by this development, and responds by scowling and darkly stating 'We'll see. Gordon regains consciousness under a pile of rubble and is found. It is quickly revealed that the only way to escape the 's explosion, which would obliterate virtually all of City 17 and then some, is to contain the which would stall the structure's detonation long enough for an escape.
Gordon and Alyx attempt to do so, discovering in the process that the local Combine forces were deliberately trying to overload the Citadel's reactor in order to send a distress message to the since the teleport core had been destroyed in Half-Life 2. The Combine apparently consider this an acceptable outcome, considering the damage the Citadel had already taken; the subsequent explosion would destroy all of and much of the surrounding countryside which has been all but lost to human Resistance forces. Gordon and Alyx avert the destruction for a few hours and manage to escape the Citadel with a copy of the distress message and meet up with Barney and other survivors.The pair eventually escape City 17 via an evacuation as the Citadel goes critical. Evidently, the message is successfully transmitted while several pods escape from the Citadel at great speed.
The train carrying Freeman and Alyx is still close to the city and is hit by the shock wave as the Citadel is destroyed. Their subsequent fate is revealed in Episode Two.
The Vortigaunt holding Alyx.Episode Two begins almost directly where the previous episode ended. The train Gordon and Alyx were escaping on was caught in the shock wave from the explosion and derailed. Gordon and Alyx crawl out and begin to make their way to, the Resistance base where, and Dr. Are waiting for them, encountering many obstacles on route.Early in the journey, Alyx is severely wounded by a and only survives through the aid of several allies. Alyx is saved through the use of a miraculous larval extract that Gordon retrieves from the hive. Briefly reappears to Gordon revealing that Alyx was under his watch as well - that he had 'appraised' her and 'plucked her from Black Mesa'. He requests that Gordon safely escort her to White Forest as repayment for his own survival without explaining the reasons.
He then proceeds to whisper to the unconscious Alyx an instruction to relay the message 'Prepare for unforeseen consequences' to (this refers to the in the original Half-Life). Once Alyx recovers, they make their way to White Forest. The last outpost.The journey is far from smooth, as Gordon is required to travel through a -infested settlement that was used as a rebel outpost in order to retrieve a car to be used to make travel much faster. Then, on the road, the two encounter a radio tower and Alyx decides to send a warning about Combine forces they had witnessed heading in White Forest's direction. They linger for too long, however, and are ambushed.
They later encounter a in incubation who almost kills them when they destroy its life support but escape through sheer luck before being chased by a into another rebel outpost. Gordon is then required to deal with a while Alyx and the rebels repair their car.
The Combine then set up a force shield ambush at the where Gordon and Alyx are outnumbered and surrounded but manage to fight through.Finally upon arrival at, Alyx gives Dr. Kleiner the data packet she retrieved from the City 17 Citadel before its destruction and Gordon is enlisted to help defend the base from a unexpected Combine infiltration. The data reveals the existence of the, an vessel thought to have been lost and containing some sort of advanced portal technology that Dr. Kleiner insists should be used against the Combine while Eli, haunted by the, insists upon its destruction.After Gordon destroys a / assault force in order to protect Dr.
Magnusson's rocket launch, Dr. Magnusson is able to use the data in his satellite which, using the old Black Mesa Array, is able to shutdown the Combine before it could open fully, which would have allowed a second Combine invasion. As Gordon and Alyx prepare to depart for the Borealis, two Combine Advisors rip through the base and kill Eli. Fortunately reappears in time to rescue Alyx and Gordon from the same fate. The episode ends with Alyx weeping over her father's body, with the possibility that the Combine have now learned everything about the Resistance through Eli.Relationships.
Isaac Kleiner in his lab. Kleiner was Gordon's teacher at MIT and recommended him to Black Mesa, where they likely worked together.
After the Combine invasion of Earth, Gordon once again worked alongside him, this time in the Resistance. Kleiner feels genuine concern for Gordon on his travels yet still foolishly puts first on a few occasions. Eli knew Gordon well at Black Mesa; they both worked in Sector C. After the Resonance Cascade, Eli was the one who opened the door for Gordon to head towards the surface in search of help. That was the last Eli would see of Gordon until he showed up at Black Mesa East twenty years later. They forged a stronger bond throughout Episode One and Two, due to the fact that Alyx was with Gordon most of the time.
At one point in Episode Two, Eli tells both Alyx and Gordon, 'now that the suppression field is down. We all have to do our part'.
The extremely candid statement shows how Eli feels about him. Shortly before his death, he tells Gordon not only about his encounter with the G-Man, confirming that the G-Man does exist on some level, but also that he could not be prouder of Gordon if he were his own son. Alyx meets Gordon for the first time.Relatively speaking, Alyx and Gordon have not actually known each other for a very long period. Alyx says to Gordon that he probably does not remember her, indicating he briefly met her (likely at Black Mesa) when she was an infant. But after going through such intense life and death combat situations and other hardships, they have forged a very strong relationship with each other. Alyx has shown affection to Gordon several times throughout the series: Twice giving a sad goodbye at an elevator, and hugging Gordon when Dog pulls him from the rubble. Barney smiling at Gordon near the Technical Trainstation.Barney and Gordon go way back, being old friends at Black Mesa.
Kleiner would lock himself out of his office, the two would race to be the first to get the door open, with Gordon usually making use of the ventilation ducts to get in. They also see each other once in Half-Life and Blue Shift, each game depicting the scene from their own respective perspective.
In Blue Shift, Gordon silently nods to Barney as he passes by in a tram. In the Combine-controlled world, Barney, undercover, saves Gordon from a terrible when Gordon nearly boards a train to Nova Prospekt. Gordon then joins Barney in assisting the Resistance. He still owes Gordon a. The work relationship between Gordon and Magnusson is relatively unknown, but Arne did harbor a grudge about Gordon on the day of the Resonance Cascade. In the aftermath of the Citadel's collapse, Gordon becomes an assistant to the Doctor at White Forest in order to get the rocket being constructed there into space.
Near the end of Episode Two, Dr. Magnusson finally has to swallow his pride and actually show appreciation to Gordon for what he did. Gordon and Judith both applied for the same position at Black Mesa. Gordon won out with his Innsbruck experience, and even later during the occupation she is still jealous, at least according to Alyx.Personality and skills.
Gordon Freeman fighting off enemies with his iconic.Since Gordon does not say a single word during the entire saga, it is not clear to what extent he exists as a separate character outside of the player's influence. Since the start of Half-Life, has made sure that the player's and Gordon's experience are one and the same. An example of Valve's player strategy is shown during the scene in Eli's lab.
Investigation of certain props (most notably the newspaper board) triggers Eli to give some explanation to their meaning and history, thus indicating that Gordon presents emotions that the non-player characters can detect. The chapter from Blue Shift also shows an example of the character apparently speaking but being unheard by the player. When Rosenberg asks Barney how he knows his name, there is a slight pause, then Rosenberg confirms the name of the scientist who told it to Barney, as if he was answering him.Although seeming to be an expert with weapons and explosives (turning into a 'one man army' during the course of the games, much like in most FPS games), Freeman had actually not handled any weapons until some cursory training at the Black Mesa Research Facility's (aside from the butane-powered tennis ball cannon he constructed at age 6). What separates Gordon Freeman from other games' heroes is that he is a scientist – a rather unlikely kind of hero when compared to more traditional video game characters such as, or soldier types in many other games, such as the or the.Behind the scenes. Old hi-res model render, with helmet. The first name 'Gordon' is a Scottish surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning 'great hill'. 'Freeman' is a common English surname which originally referred to a person who was born free, or in other words was not a serf, and not subject to the will of another.
This is a rather ironic title to be given to Gordon, since he is 'involuntarily' serving. On the other hand, it does make sense in that Freeman unknowingly sets the free from the in Half-Life and sets humanity (and their new Vortigaunt allies) free from the rule in Half-Life 2. The Vortigaunts refer to Gordon as 'the Freeman' and in one of, he mentions that people are starting to refer to Gordon as 'the One Free Man, the Opener of the Way'. Gordon Freeman's appearance was originally designed by and, while the Half-Life 2 model was made by Dhabih Eng only. ↑ Half-Life 2 Prima Guide. ↑.
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