G-Man

Presentation

Physically, G-Man seems to be a man of about fifty year of the Caucasian type large and mean, with a very pale skin, brown hair and eyes blue-greens. Some sees him a certain resemblance to Robert Oppenheimer. In the series, it is vêtu of a gray/blue costume and always holds (except for Half-Life 2: Episode One) with the hand a case which, at least in Half-Life 1 , carries the logo of the Research center of Black Mesa. He speaks in a slow way, posed and on an intonation enough punt.

G-Man releases a very calm behavior, almost indifferent, with the events around him. It is particularly obvious in the Research center of Black Mesa devastated by the extraterrestrial ones where the other human ones are taken of panic and try to flee while G-Man can be observed rectifying calmly its Cravate or smoothing the reverses of its costume with its hand. He is regularly seen in the plays, but it is however rare that the player sees nothing any more him but one furtive appearance before this one does not go calmly out of the sight of the player and disappears mysteriously. G-Man is able to use a large range of devices, cell phones with the téléporteurs while passing by the armor-plated doors and the warheads Nucléaire S.

“G-Man” is certainly not its real name. It never is identified nor evoked and even the knowledge of its existence by the other characters of the play is not certain, sometimes although one sees it interacting with certain people. “G-Man” is simply the name of model of the character in the files of Half-Life and Half-Life 2 (in reference at the end familiar “G-Man” - G overnment Man - to perhaps indicate an agent of the US government), or then G ordon Free' man' it is also named thus in the documents of Valve and the credits of end of Half-Life 2 . Moreover, in the handbook of Opposing Forces , Adrian Shephard mentions it under this name. Before the exit of Half-Life 2 , some thought that it was about the administrator of Black Mesa (about which one vaguely intends to speak in the first opus). But actually the administrator of Black Mesa is clearly Wallace Breen.

G-Man is sometimes seen speaking with various people but it seems sometimes that only the player is able to see it. However, at the end of Half-Life 2 , Dr. Breen called to Gordon Freeman (In the French version that gives: “this one is a flexible pawn for those which control it” and “did you know that your contract was opened with highest offerer? ”) In the situation where Breen states these sentences, that lets suggest that it realizes of the implication of higher forces in the actions of Freeman. Moreover, in the speech of Breen with Nova Prospekt, one intends this one to say to the Militia in connection with Freeman (at least in the French version): “I have good reasons to think that during these last years, its position prevented any development of secret competences to him. ” What implies, unless it is not about matter propagandists, that Breen knows something that the player is unaware of. Moreover, certain ambiguous sentences of Vortigaunts could be possible references to G-Man.

The case

Except for the sequence of opening of Episode One , G-Man always transports a mysterious case which nourished the imagination of the fans much. In the original Half-Life , by using the code of cheating “No clip” or using the model viewer , it is possible to see inside (). However, like the contents of the perhaps visible case only in “cheating”, it is probable that the player is not supposed to see it or that the contents are only a Easter egg (the developers say that the case had at the origin being open in the play within the framework of a scene but that the idea was abandoned during the development).

To note that applies only for Half-Life 1 , because the interior of the case in Half-Life 2 is white, but the contents of the case seem to be as follows:

3 pencils
2 sheets of notes
a gun 9mm in its case
an indentity card
a laptop

Moreover, in Opposing Forces , G-Man is seen one moment speaking on a cellphone.

Appearances

Half-Life

G-Man is seen for the first time in a line of Tram during the sequence of opening of Half-Life , its line leaves in a direction opposed to that Freeman, and yet he manages to arrive in the Sector C before Freeman. Little time before the beginning of the experiment, it can be seen bitterly discussing with a scientist in a room locked the Sector C, making gestures similar to cuffs, like expressing a categorical refusal. After resonance in chain at the origin of “the incident” of Black Mesa, G-Man can be considering on several occasions in the play observing the player quietly. In many cases, the player arrives finally at the place where was G-Man before a few seconds, even if other zones where he is seen remain inaccessible, and when other people are on the spot they do not emit any comment which would imply that they saw it.

After its victory against Nihilanth over Xen, at the end of Half-Life , Gordon Freeman meets finally G-Man. This one brings unexplainable Gordon of manner in a tram (like one of those at the beginning of the play) but this one travels through an entirely black and mysterious place (the space?). G-Man called to Gordon to have followed its exploits of very near and congratulates it for that. It informs it then that it recommended it to its “employers” and proposes in Gordon to work for him. Thereafter, the gun wants that Gordon accepted the offer even if the player has the choice to accept or of the offer at the end of the first Half-Life refuses. The decline of the offer propels Freeman entirely disarmed (G-man pretexts that all the weapons belong to the state and that it must thus recover them (it however leaves him the combination on these words: " I think you earn it." , in French: “I think that you deserve it. ”)) in front of a horde the extraterrestrial hostile ones while the screen is blackened and that the last words of G-Man resound: “Without resentment, Mr. Freeman. ” G-Man speaks in Half-Life 2 about “the illusion about a choice” because, of course, if Gordon declines its offer, it can only be made massacre (and it would not have there following the play).

The official Web site of Half-Life 2: Episode One title that “ In Half-Life , the G-Man made you. ”

Opposing Forces

In the first extension Half-Life: Opposing Forces , G-Man plays a part a little more direct in the history and the actions of the main character, the Caporal Adrian Shephard.

During the training session to the milliary camp, G-Man can be seen behind a pane speaking with an officer, throwing a glance with the player occasionally. As the indications of the sergeant-instructor mention that entraînemement of Shepard is inexplicably advanced, it seems that G-Man was interressé in Adrian Shepard before the events of Black Mesa for unknown reasons.

During “the incident” of Black Mesa (that the section of Shephard was sent to contain), Adrian Shepard is at one time trapped in a room that corrosive and/or radioactive liquid invades little by little. G-Man opens a door making it possible Shephard to escape, saving the life to him. A little later, whereas Shephard joined the other navy to evacuate Black Mesa, G-Man closes the door of the hangar, leaving Shepard on the spot. Thereafter, G-Man is seen rearming the nuclear bomb which must destroy Black Mesa and which Shepard had decontaminated before.

After Shepard overcame it at the end of Opposing Force , G-Man appears finally in front of him. On this occasion, Shepard is found inexplicably on board the one of the planes Osprey of the UCEH. G-Man the formless one that, contrary to the wish of its “employer”, it decided to save the life of Shephard but which it must maintain it in captivity. G-Man is said impressed by the faculty of Shepard “to seek to survive by all the means” in the complex, and admits: “After all, we are same hardening”. At the end of its speech, the plane carries them far from Black Mesa with the shelter of the blast of the nuclear explosion, confirming the destruction of the center. The plane is transposed then suddenly in the sky of Xen then finally in a great black vacuum similar to that where the tram of Gordon travelled at the end of Half-Life . G-Man leaves then Shephard by a teleportor located in the Cockpit which disappears immediately after its passage, and the screen is darkened.

Blue Shift and Decay

In the two extensions Half-Life: Blue Shift and Half-Life: Decay , the principal characters of each play (respectively Barney Calhoun and the doctors Gina Cross-country race and Colette Green), see G-Man at the beginning of play, but it does not seem to notice them more.

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 starts where G-Man is addressed to Gordon as in a kind of dream, showing him images of the room of test of Black Mesa (to be noted that this room is modelled with the graphic engine of Half-Life first of the name; there is mixture of the graphic engines of the two versions because the very detailed face of G-Man is posted by transparency with the graphic engine of the second shutter) and the interior of the Citadelle (which is modelled this time with the graphic engine of the second play, since one does not visit it in the first opus). G-Man implies in Freeman that it placed it in damning up for its own security, and that a opportunity arises now so that Freeman can begin its fight against the forces of the Cartel on Ground.

Throughout this sequence of introduction, G-Man calls Freeman “Mr Freeman” without referring to its title of Doctor. However, in the sequence of end, it calls it “Doctor Freeman”.

As in the first Half-Life , G-Man is visible at various places during the play, but only with very long distance or through screen from terminals until the final sequence of the play. After the hard battle during its rise of the Citadel, Gordon severely damages the engine with fusion by the vacuum (exploits “black energy” which the universe for its expansion uses?) building which causes an explosion which would certainly have caused its death if G-Man had not stopped time to put Gordon in safety while waiting for the instructions of its “employers” (by apparently leaving with its fate the team-member of Gordon, Alyx Vance). The play finishes on this end very similar to the first Half-Life , while G-Man advances towards a kind of gate, not without having, before, rectified last once its tie.

To this moment, G-Man states clearly that it will replace Gordon Freeman in damning up whereas it receives “proposals interesting” for the services of Gordon without however mentioning its “employers” as in HL1 .

Before the final confrontation, the Doctor Breen request in Freeman: “Did you Know that your contract was opened with highest offerer? ” One can take that like a reference to the “contract” of Gordon with G-Man, and much of players think that means that G-Man is one.

One episode

In Half-Life 2: Episode One , G-Man appears only once, at the beginning of the play, which begins again exactly at the time when Half-Life 2 stops. For once without its mysterious case, G-Man accompanies back Gordon in the empty vastness where it had already plunged it before and prepares to say something when it notices a Vortigaunt crimson on its left. At its sight, it seems slightly amused but of other Vortigaunts appear on its line and its smile disappears and its face takes an irritated air. Carrying out what it occurs, its irritation is transformed into anger and it rectifies its tie more violently than usually while two Vortigaunts empoignent Gordon by the arms. Gordon is then immediately téléporté outside the Citadel where it is found by Chien under a pile of décombre in the neighborhoods of the Citadel. Before Gordon does not escape to him, G-Man lets escape “One will see that. ”

This incident shows that Vortigaunts have the capacity to enter the world of G-Man. It is also the first time that characters not-players put themselves across G-Man.

It is also possible by opening the source of the file sounds of the episode one, (file .GCF) to hear certain dialogs which G-Man never pronounces in aucuns episodes parrus currently, such as: " Oh not Freeman, return… return here, immediately! " , " Oh not… not this time! " , " *un small laughter sadique*" , or a sound more particularly interesting where G-Man called under a tone of irritation and at the same time of despair: " Good… good, shit! " (Cf: It should be noted that it is the only time that this character seems not to be at ease)

Two episode

In " Half Life 2: Episode Two, G-Man appears only once in front of the eyes of Gordon, when Vortigaunts are occupied to look after Alyx Vance. He with the air to be interested much in this one, and teaches us that it is him which drew it from Black Mesa at the time of the incident. He asks Gordon to take care on her until White Forest and request of Alyx to transmit a sentence to his father: " You with consequences imprévues." prepare; (cf: reference in the name of the first chapter of Half-Life 1). Later, it is learned that Eli Vance knows G-Man and that it is him which with brought the sample of Xen which is the cause of the accident. In addition, in the " cinématique" of GMan, this one does not have its case either, and one can see his potential " bureau" , whose decoration resembles that of Portal (in particular the pane on the line).

Anecdotes

It seems to have a technology of very thorough teleportation.
In the english language version of the play, G-man speaks in a very strange way. Its voice takes false intonations and an unusual stressing. It does not seem at ease with the human language. So one is in right to think that G-man is not human. (Remarkable also since Two Episode)
It belongs to a “organization” which it evokes itself. This one seems to know about all since it seizes the world parallel of Xen at the end of Half-Life. Within this one, G-man does not seem to be the only one to make decisions about Gordon Freeman as testifies its quotation to it “ I received proposals interesting for your services ”.
Some advance that G-man would be actually Gordon Freeman in the future, which would explain its knowledge of the course of Gordon in Black Mesa and its omniscience of the events. Moreover, Gordons and Shephard are “same hardening”, and G-man is qualified also thus… Certain photographs also show several common points between the physique of Gordon and Gman.

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