Ravenholm

Ravenholm is a fictitious city some share in Europe of the East in the Video game Half-Life 2 . The city was entirely destroyed and is inhabited more only by Zombi S.

Presentation

Ranvenholm is an old mining city inhabited by escaped prisoners of Cité 17 (under the aegis of the Trust). The town of Ravenholm is primarily made up of more or less large houses out of concrete or wooden. The streets and the houses seem vaguely inspired of the architecture of Eastern Europe or Russian. Large buildings being able to be seen in certain districts also resemble those of the Soviet era.

Because of a recent bombardment of the Cartel with special missiles with head digs containing crabs of head, Ravenholm became the reference mark of a broad variety of crabs of head and zombies (in fact, crabs of head which took the human ones like host). The last human survivor is obviously the Père Grégori, former Pasteur of the city, which left to hunting to the zombies to release their hearts. The city for this reason is completely disfigured by the corpses of people become zombies who were taken in traps of Grégori (hung, cut out, burned, hung…). It is possible that other survivors are disseminated in Ravenholm because one can hear a woman shout and Grégori to ask Freeman “another life to save? ” (but that can also refer to the zombies of which he believes to release the hearts of those that he eliminates).

A tunnel joined the city with Black Mesa Is but it was sealed by the resistant ones after the bombardment of Ravenholm.

In the play

Gordon Freeman is obliged to cross the city after the attack of Black Mesa Is by the Trust. This level is sometimes affublé of the name of “Resident Half-Life”, a pun in reference to the series Resident Evil from the important concentration of zombies in the city and an environment which takes as a starting point this kind of Survival horror .

Very as a combatant the hordes of zombies of the city, Gordon Freeman meets the last human survivor of Ravenholm, the Père Grégori. The priest hunter of zombies Gordon assistance to cross the city, providing him the way to be followed and a rifle to pump like by activating its traps houses a little everywhere in the city to release the passage.

The Munition S are rare in the city and Gordon has thus preference to use the gun anti-gravity (which can make léviter and project various projectiles of which webs which abound in the city) and to count on the traps drawn up by Grégori to come to end from the zombies.

Anecdote

Initially, Ravenholm was called Quarrytown and been to utilize soldiers of the Trust in addition to the zombies, as one can see it in the video of the E3 “Traptown”. The road borrowed by the player was also modified as shows it the demonstration “Docks” where the player crosses Quai S which lead to Ravenholm.

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