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Leipzig: The real-life Half-Life 2

There's something strangely familiar about the city of Leipzig. Gravity guns at the ready...

Words: David Houghton, GamesRadar UK
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Everything3vil  - 1 year 3 months ago 
Those crazy germans, always up to something
ELpork  - 1 year 3 months ago 
haha, awww that headcrab is all alone....tear.
NintendoNerd655  - 1 year 3 months ago 
Where's my gravity gun?!?
SpikeDelight  - 1 year 2 months ago 
This is pretty exact. It's not surprising that Adam Sessler asked Gabe Newell the same thing about City 17's inspirations in his Leipzig interview on X-Play. Well documented though, GamesRadar. Love the site and the new comments feature.
VOODOOBG  - 1 year 2 months ago 
you've got it all wrong, the game was built on pictures taken in Sofia, Bulgaria .Check it on the net if you want, and those pics are no were near to the real thing here in Sofia :)
TheWebSwinger  - 1 year 2 months ago 
@Gotxxrock

If Dr. Breen were there, that would probably be the WORST thing, not perfect,
KingofHearts  - 1 year 2 months ago 
the 2nd to the last photo!! Classic!! lol!
anime_nut  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Since City 17 was based on Eastern Europe and Leipzig is located in (formerly communist) East Germany, it's not surprising they look similar. Still, its a funny montage. Well done.
Urahara101  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Hell Yeah...but where's Freeman?
Slipknot_Boy  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Omg they are so ffake, the treees don't even look real.
GamesRadarDavidHoughton  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Urahara: You never see Gordon in a Half-Life 2 game, you know that... :)
Anbu204  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Lol yeah it does look like City 17 ,

Post Apocalyptic,
Dark,
Un-Photoshoped Combine and Strider's,
......Sucks to be German :)
Wave360  - 1 year 2 months ago 
I lold
G4M3_N3M3S1S  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Holy crap the resembelence is striking that makes me wanna go to germany more lol.
londonjack  - 1 year 2 months ago 
hey my apartment is in the first picture
MrCynical  - 1 year 2 months ago 
@Tomsta666:
Leipzig is in the former East Germany. So it IS ex-communist Eastern Europe, in architecture for example.
NelosAngelos  - 1 year 2 months ago 
SO where's the G-man?
barag  - 1 year 2 months ago 
totaly NOT fake, this is how east germany looks like
The_Tingler  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Striking, even though you used the first house twice!
Basketcase676  - 1 year 2 months ago 
I would only every go there if i had a crowbar! Cos like theres only a gigantic strider, a hunter and a zombie. Now if there was a super-zombie then i'd be a bit screwed!
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