Isaac Kleiner

The Doctor Isaac Kleiner is a character of the Série of video game Half-Life . He is the prototype even of the brilliant scientist and head-in-the air.

He is the author of many work on teleportation and the voyages interdimensionnels, and one of rare surviving of “the incident of Black Mesa”. He becomes then one of the main leaders of the rebellion against the Trust (even if he always does not assume it).

History

Half-Life

Although the character of Kleiner is based on the model of scientist bald person and with glasses met on several occasions in the first Half-Life (called “Walter Bennett” by the fans and named later like such in the extensions Opposing Force and Blue Shift ), the two characters are entirely distinct and Kleiner never meets Gordon Freeman during “the incident of Black Mesa”.

Before Half-Life 2 , the only reference to Isaac Kleiner is in Half-Life: Decay where the Doctor Richard Keller mentions that it, referring to Gordon.

Doctor Kleiner, who recommended Gordon Freeman to be employed in Black Mesa, works with him in the department of Abnormal Materials and was one of his professors to M.I.T.. He manages to survive resonance in chain and the catastrophe which resulted from this with the assistance from Eli Vance, but the way in which he managed to escape remainder unknown factor. A logical explanation could be that him, Eli Vance (with his/her daughter Alyx), and can be other members of the personnel of Black Mesa goes up in a SUV and escapes in the same way that Barney Calhoun, the Doctor Rosenberg and the two scientists at the end of Blue Shift .

Half-Life 2

With his colleagues Eli Vance, Alyx Vance and Barney Calhoun, it assembles a resistance against the Cartel. Kleiner installs its secret laboratory in Cité 17 in an old abandoned building Northern Petrol . A system of teleportation, developed jointly by Kleiner and Vance, allows an quasi-instantaneous displacement between the laboratory of Kleiner and Black Mesa Is, the base and the laboratory of Eli Vance to the periphery of the city to several kilometers from there.

Kleiner captured a crab of head to which it withdrew its hooks that it keeps like pet and that it names Lamarr in reference to the actress and inventor of the Années 1930 Hedy Lamarr (it calls also sometimes its crab of Hedy head).

A young photograph of Kleiner is present in Half-Life 2 , on a cover of Popular Scientist , a fictitious scientific magazine (and parodies American magazine Popular Science ) whose publication is former to the incident of Black Mesa. Above, it carries rouflaquettes and has more hair (which is still brown).

Half-Life 2: Episode One

In Episode One , Kleiner appears on the giant screens installed in very Cité 17 (initalement in order to spread the propaganda of Wallace Breen) to inform the inhabitants to evacuate the city while moving towards the Gare. It also invites the resistant ones to gather to prepare with the response of the Trust, informant that new technologies were developed during the occupation and that they will be deployed soon to push back the Trust.

Like the character lends itself to it, its intervention also brings some humorous keys as when he announces that the field of suppression of the Trust does not function any more and that it is the ideal moment to procreate and take share with the repopulation of the Earth.

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

In Episode Two Kleiner appears for the first time in the first chapter through a screen, and will communicate has Alyx and Gordon of information on the situation. To be then met in the final chapters. It is for the first time in conflict with somebody, because of a hurdy-gurdy competition between him and Doctor Magnusson which lasts since Black Mesa. It is also always also attached has its Crabe of head " apprivoisé" , Lamarr.

Anecdotes

It is affectionately called “Izzy” by the Doctor Eli Vance on several occasions. Certain sources refer to him as being Doctor Alex Kleiner, being based on an error of the guide of strategy of the first Half-Life . It is possible that it changed name during the development of Half-Life 2 and that it is about the same character.
In the original version, its voice is that of Harry S. Robins in Half-Life 2 , i.e. the voice of all the scientists of the first Half-Life .
At the end of the chapter “Quantum Correlation” in Half-Life 2 , Isaac Kleiner is seen holding in its hands a rifle similar to that of first Half-life. A scientist at the end of the chapter in the Lambda Sector in the first Half-Life is met holding up a pump rifle in the same way, awkward and trembling, and its model 3D is the same one as that on which is based the aspect of Doctor Kleiner.
the file of texture for its face is called “walter_face.vtf”, a reference to “Walter Benett”, the nickname of the scientist bald person in the first Half-Life on which the aspect of Kleiner is based.

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