

This is where Black Mesa left off with its initial launch in September 2012, a full eight years after development had started. After crossing the surface and watching as the aliens overwhelm the remainder of the HECU, Freeman arrives at the Lambda Complex, brings its reactor back online and fends off Alien Controllers before jumping into the portal. Moreover, despite defeating Black Ops assassins, Freeman is subsequently captured by the HECU soldiers and left for dead in a trash compactor. Freeman successfully launches the satellite, but to no avail. Freeman is forced to contend with both the wildlife and soldiers after leaving the office complex, Freeman is confronted with a massive tentacled-monster and activates a rocket engine to incinerate it, and then defeats a Gargantua to access the underground train line connecting the Black Mesa launch facility: the remaining scientists hypothesise that they can use a satellite to close the rift. Moreover, to cover up the incident, the military’s HECU (Hazardous Environment Combat Unit) has been sent in to neutralise the Black Mesa staff, security guards and scientists alike. However, the resulting resonance cascade has allowed portals from another dimension to bring in alien wildlife that begins attacking the security staff and scientists. When an experiment goes horrifically wrong, theoretical physicist Gordan Freeman is forced to make his way through the heavily damaged Black Mesa research facility in an attempt to reach the surface and get help. I wouldn’t venture there myself, but I will let them know that you are coming.” –Scientist to Freeman

“But, if you do survive and somehow make it across the base, you’ll end up at the Lambda Complex, where the rest of the science team has taken shelter.
