Gordon Freeman
Gordon Freeman is a male video game character who features in Half-Life.
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Biography
Gordon Freeman was a male human who was born in the modern age in Seattle, Washington where from an early age he developed an interest in theoretical physics.
It was his mentor Dr. Kleiner who offered him a position a government-based laboratory known as the Black Mesa Research Facility with Gordon accepting with the hope that the funding could be used towards civilian applications.
Freeman starts his tram ride from Level 3 Dormitories at Black Mesa. He was 30 minutes late, as he got on at 8:47. Arriving at the Anomalous Materials department, Freeman dons the Hazardous Environment Suit before he and his team experiment on sample GG-3883 in Sector C's Anti-Mass Spectrometer. The experiment goes wrong and triggers a Resonance Cascade. As a result, the space-time continuum is ruptured, allowing alien 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 Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, a military clean-up team that has been sent to contain the situation by silencing aliens and surviving personnel alike. Freeman manages to survive the chaos, impressing the few surviving scientists and security guards with his acts while quickly becoming the HECU's top priority target. Eventually, Freeman encounters a few rare glimpses of an elite military detachment sent to eradicate all life at the facility, including Freeman himself. However, Freeman fights his way through them and continues on his journey across the facility. After numerous challenges, and after eliminating countless aliens and soldiers, Freeman is eventually transported by a few surviving Lambda Team scientists to the alien home-world of Xen, where he manages to eliminate the Xen "leader," the Nihilanth. Upon recovering from his final encounter, Freeman is finally confronted by the mysterious G-Man, who has been observing Freeman from a distance throughout the entire game. The G-Man shows Freeman several locations throughout Earth and Xen before finally offering him 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 Freeman accepts the G-Man's offer.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Gordon wears a special full-body hazmat suit, known as the Hazardous Environment Suit (HEV Suit). The suit is designed to protect the user from radiation, energy discharges, and blunt trauma during the handling of hazardous materials. The suit's main feature is its "high-impact reactive armor", an electrically powered armor system that, when charged, absorbs two-thirds of the damage.
Notes
- Gordon Freeman was created by Gabe Newell and Marc Laidlaw where he featured in the setting of the Half-Life universe.
Appearances
- Half-Life:
- Half-Life 2:
- Half-Life: Alyx:
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