Adaptational Heroism: While players familiar with Half-Life 2 onwards already know that the Vortigaunts are nowhere near as malevolent as they seem, Black Mesa takes pains to show that they really were in a bad way before Gordon killed the Nihilanth, emphasizing their sympathetic traits.They're shown to have been attacked by headcrabs before they could ensure Gordon's demise in the compactor, with one zombified and the other reduced to meaty chunks, presumably having panicked and blown himself up with a grenade. Adaptational Explanation: There's now a justification provided for why the two soldiers who capture Gordon and throw him into a trash compactor don't bother making sure he's dead.Upon taking the portal to Xen, the Nihilanth makes a quick cameo, having not appeared in Half-Life until the finale level in which he was fought.Eli is the scientist who sends you up to call for help and Kleiner greets you in the Spectrometer control room, then walks with Gordon to the elevator, also taking the role of one of the scientists panicking over the exploding machinery their placement was based on comments by the series' writer, Marc Laidlaw, and the fact Eli states that he is the one who sent you to the surface. Barney Calhoun, Eli Vance and Isaac Kleiner, major characters introduced in Half-Life 2, replace the guard banging on the door (according to Blue Shift) and two of the generic scientists from Half-Life.Adaptational Badass: So many enemies were buffed in relation to Half-Life that the game has its own page. ![]() Under the right circumstances some security guards can take on whole squads of Xen monsters and HECU soldiers and win, and even the normally defenceless scientists got a few moments such as one who took out a Headcrab by smashing it with an old computer monitor. ![]()
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