Six days of apocalypses: Super science tears a hole in the universe allowing for an alien invasion of Earth.

The trustiest crowbar.

The Crowbar: Gordon Freeman's crowbar gets him into and out of many sticky situations as he tries to escape a disintegrating secret super science facility and then it helps him again as he has to navigate life on an Earth ruled by an extraterrestrial fundamentalist "cooperative."

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While life isn't entirely terrible in the Half-Life universe, I would rather not live under the rule of a totalitarian extradimensional alien conqueror collective.

The Combine claims to be excellent to everyone, but we know better. Don't just say you are, really be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph