Juicy HL2: Episode 2 Details

PC Gamer has an exclusive article with the latest details. To be concise:

-ETA: Holiday '06
-New functionality for gravity gun
-Alyx lives
-Vortigaunts more "fleshed out"
-More info on Gman to be revealed
-New vehicle
-All locales from HL2 + new ones. The new ones will be based off real places and therefore more realistic.
-You have to get the packet to Eli and Kleiner, who have set up base at the missle silo
-Extremely difficult physics puzzle
-Strider buster <-- new weapon
-Massive amounts of enemies fighting at the same time battlefield style
-New multiplayer game to be shipped with HL2: E2

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