Ah there we go.. and ofcourse they're facts, Marc Laidlaw stated himself, why would valve advertise something they never agreed on and let gearbox make a game off of their scripts?
Race-x is simply a small 3rd party that doesn't mean really anything to the overarching plot of half-life.. they just try to take blackmesa and fail horribly, so they retreat and go about their own business on xen or whatever dimension they live.
Gordon's suit was designed for combat due to the harsh conditions in xen faced by scientist exploration teams.. and if it were not Gordon would be on the ground dead in one shot. Shephard's suit was a powered combat vest, not a normal bullet proof vest, if that's not futuristic I don't know what...
Shephard is like Gordon's supreme rival, both characters are ultimate survivors who never talk and wear some sort of futuristic armor. Both characters have to go through hell at black mesa and somehow end up in one of the gman's freaky speeches. A shephard expansion for hl2 as another pov would...
The plot of hl2 seemed like it was building up for the first half.. but then the second half was rushed. I think playing as gordon would be da PWN!! Save the other povs for another time valve.. :)
Actually now that I think of it playing as Gordon isn't such a bad idea, you would wake up 5 minutes after the gman says "this is where I get off" meaning the gman left you to escape by yourself after completing what was assigned. You wake up in that room where you see the advisor with Alyx and...