opposing force was a fantastic expansion for the half-life series. but what if you were allowed to play as the combine in half-life 2? being able to control the striders would be fun.
The problem is that there's no third "race" in the post Half Life one story. In Half Life one the marines got stranded and were fighting the aliens and eventualy they teamed up with other humans, that they were supposed to kill. This gave the player something else to do instead of killing innocent scientists. Killing scientists is unacceptable but killing aliens is OK, so a game was made where you kill aliens. In Half Life 2 the combine are 100% evil that kill innocent women and children and eat babies. That's pretty much all they do. So I guess that some peoplewould think that playing as the combine would be unacceptabe.
I've yet to see a game where you do a house search, kill someone when they run away, because that's what you've been ordered to. Then finally round up all the possible "terrorists" and execute them. I guess that would be too "evil" because it's too realistic. If an expansion about the combine would be made, it would be about you joining the combine and then witnessing some cruelty. This makes you rebel and eventually it would turn into a combine killing fest, like in Half Life 2 vanilla.
The thing is that "good" fighting against "evil" is OK. But "evil" fighting against "good" is a no-no.
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