Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation, released for Windows through Steam on November 16, 2004 and later ported to Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Mac OS X and Linux. Players control physicist Gordon Freeman as he joins a resistance movement fighting to free Earth from the alien Combine, using a signature gravity gun to manipulate objects in the environment for both combat and puzzle-solving alongside vehicles and physics-based mechanics. The game won 39 Game of the Year awards, achieved a Metacritic score of 96 out of 100, and had sold 12 million copies by 2011, and it is widely regarded as one of the most influential first-person shooters ever made. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wikidata P166: British Academy Games Award for Action Game
Wikidata P166 (award received): British Academy Games Award for Action Game.
Wikidata P166: British Academy Games Award for Animation
Wikidata P166 (award received): British Academy Games Award for Animation.
Wikidata P166: British Academy Games Award for Artistic Achievement
Wikidata P166 (award received): British Academy Games Award for Artistic Achievement.
Wikidata P166: British Academy Games Award for Best Game
Wikidata P166 (award received): British Academy Games Award for Best Game.
Wikidata P166: British Academy Games Award for Multiplayer
Wikidata P166 (award received): British Academy Games Award for Multiplayer.
Wikidata P166: British Academy Games Award for PC
Wikidata P166 (award received): British Academy Games Award for PC.
Wikidata P166: Golden Joystick Awards − PC Game of the Year
Wikidata P166 (award received): Golden Joystick Awards − PC Game of the Year.
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Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed and published by Valve Corporation.
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