Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Cover art featuring (from left) Gordon Freeman, the Combine Hunters and Alyx Vance
Developer(s)	Valve
Publisher(s)	Valve
Writer(s)	Marc Laidlaw Erik Wolpaw Chet Faliszek
Composer(s)	Kelly Bailey
Series	Half-Life
Engine	Source
Platform(s)	Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Mac OS X Linux
Release	October 10, 2007 Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 NA: October 10, 2007 EU: October 18, 2007 AU: October 25, 2007 PlayStation 3 AU: December 20, 2007 EU: December 14, 2007 NA: December 14, 2007 Mac OS X WW: May 26, 2010 Linux WW: May 10, 2013
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Half-Life 2: Episode Two is a 2007 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. Following Episode One (2006), it is the second of two shorter episodic games that continue the story of Half-Life 2 (2004). Players control Gordon Freeman, who travels through the mountains surrounding City 17 to a resistance base with his ally Alyx Vance. Like previous games in the series, Episode Two combines shooting, puzzle-solving and narrative elements, but adds expansive environments and less linear sequences.

Episode Two was released on 10 October 2007, for Windows on Valve's distribution service Steam, and as a part of The Orange Box, a compilation of Valve games for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The PlayStation version was produced by Electronic Arts. Episode Two received positive reviews.

Half-Life 2: Episode Three was announced for Christmas 2007, but was canceled as Valve abandoned episodic development. In 2020, after canceling several further Half-Life projects, Valve released Half-Life: Alyx.