Vroom Vroom (it’s a car this time)
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| The main menu continues to keep you drawn in. |
Ah,
Highway 17, my (personal) favourite chapter of the game because of its
atmosphere and general ‘feel’, and that’s not taking into account the more
enjoyable, open gameplay and numerous moments. In a sense it’s the game’s first
chapter in which you are truly isolated, save for brief interactions with other
Resistance members at the start and a little way in, otherwise it’s just you,
your (well, Alyx’s) scout car, the antlions and a whole lot of combine. The
coastline is long, barren and littered with antlion-repelling devices, which
are essentially tall devices that constantly strike the earth, releasing
tremors that repel the antlions. The coastline is also littered with Resistance
bases be they abandoned or taken over, abandoned (or now infested) houses of
citizens who lived along the coast and various temporary Combine bases
